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...Back in Washington the mood seemed hardly favorable to such a request. Some outspoken Congressmen feel that the U.S. should relax its longstanding support for the Salvadoran government and instead pursue power-sharing negotiations with the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a course the guerrillas have long advocated. Said New York Congressman Stephen Solarz: "There's a growing concern that our policy is leading nowhere...
More than two full days after the guerrillas had captured Berlin, 1,000 Salvadoran army troops arrived to lift the siege. When relief columns neared the town, the guerrillas, true to form, melted into the nearby hills. As they retreated, they burned Berlin's coffee warehouses, the town's chief source of income...
...Washington, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas O. Enders admitted that the F.M.L.N. occupation was a "significant psychological action." Not only had the guerrillas briefly occupied a major town, but they seemed to have underscored a growing incompetence on the part of the Salvadoran army. U.S. military advisers in El Salvador have repeatedly warned the country's Defense Minister, José Guillermo Garcia, to concentrate on defending economically vital Usulután, where they believe the Salvadoran conflict ultimately will be won or lost. Instead, Garcia had sent the cream of his 22,000-member army...
...officials maintained that Stanley was on a "training mission." Later, however, the U.S. embassy in the capital of San Salvador announced that Stanley's immediate superior had been relieved of duty for ordering the sergeant to act in violation of congressional strictures that forbid advisers to enter Salvadoran combat zones. Two other U.S. military men were also sent home. The entire incident was almost certainly bound to generate further controversy about the U.S. role in El Salvador, and about whether the more than $160 million in requested military and economic aid to the country this year is a wise...
...Negroponte. "Since then, the Nicaraguan government has quadrupled the number of its uniformed soldiers and brought in between 1,700 and 2,000 Cuban security advisers. Honduras and Costa Rica are worried. So is El Salvador, which has suffered from Nicaragua's role as the springboard for the Salvadoran insurgency." Said another U.S. diplomat, who traveled from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa to observe the war games: "Big Pine is a political maneuver rather than one of major military significance...