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...attempts to link Nicaragua to Salvadoran rebels. A totally absurd excuse for the U.S. to commit aggression against us. We did not invent the Salvadoran revolution. As recently as 1977, their guerrilla movement was stronger than ours. The Salvadoran revolutionaries do not have military bases here. If they have bases outside El Salvador, they are in Guatemala and Honduras...
...charge that Nicaragua supplies arms to the Salvadoran rebels. If your Government provided us with the information necessary for us to stop the flow of arms, we have the will. The problem is in the area of information.[Assistant Secretary of State Thomas O.] Enders has said that because his Government did not have the right sort of relationship with us, it could not give us the information we were asking for. In discussions with the U.S., the American side would be free to raise matters of concern to it, and we would take measures to stop those things that...
...Yankee imperialism." In Washington, President Reagan vowed that the murder would not affect "the economic or military aid which we are giving." In reply, Democratic Congressman Gerry E. Studds of Massachusetts, a longtime critic of U.S. policy in Central America, warned that "there will be a lot more deaths, Salvadoran and American," if the U.S. continues to maintain military personnel in Central America...
After volunteering for service in El Salvador, Schaufelberger was assigned to the military group, where he continued helping the Salvadoran navy build up its ability to interdict rebel arms smuggled by sea from Nicaragua. At the same time, Schaufelberger kept himself well in formed about the changing strength and tactics of the guerrillas. In an interview last week, he predicted that he and his fellow U.S. advisers could soon become choice targets. "Things are going to get nasty," he said. "Shooting a soldier in the line of duty is a lot less risky than shooting a female consular official...
MARRIED. Anastasio Somoza ("Tachito") Portocarrero, 30, oldest son and onetime heir apparent to the late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle; and Marisa Celasco Oberholzer, 24, Salvadoran socialite daughter of a Swiss mother and Italian businessman father; both for the first time; in Miami...