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Some of this material, however, was presented by Haig and CIA Director William Casey in a classified briefing to a bipartisan group of 26 former security officials and advisers. Although these experts did not wholeheartedly endorse the Administration view that the Salvadoran guerrillas are actually controlled by Cuba and Nicaragua, they agreed that external forces were playing an important role in the Salvadoran struggle. Said Sol Linowitz, one of the negotiators of the Panama Canal Treaty: "We found it sobering and reason for concern. We found what we were shown to be credible and quite persuasive." Added Jimmy Carter...
...Soviet Union through Nicaragua; the evidence was sloppily presented and exaggerated in some cases, opening the Administration to charges of fraud. Last week the State Department had problems producing the two defectors from the Nicaraguan Air Force who were supposed to tell of their involvement in the Salvadoran insurrection. At the last minute, the appearance of the defectors was postponed because, as a senior official quaintly put it, "the new material is not ready to meet the press." Privately, officials acknowledged some worry that the evidence might not be strong enough...
...notably a land redistribution program begun in 1980?and rein in the endemic violence that haunts El Salvador, much of it attributed to the government's own security forces. But he faces a tough challenge from ultrarightist candidates in the six-party contest. Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former Salvadoran national guard intelligence officer and a fierce extremist, has been campaigning aggressively on an unleash-the-army-and-crush-the-Communists platform, and has been gaining momentum. A victory by a coalition of D'Aubuisson's National Republican Alliance with the conservative National Reconciliation Party, the traditional vehicle...
...Salvadoran guerrillas, meanwhile, are boycotting the election campaign and disrupting it with bold attacks, principally on economic targets. A slashing rebel probe last week shut off a major stretch of the country's Pan American Highway and destroyed a key bridge, effectively isolating a third of the northeastern Morazán department and putting it virtually under guerrilla control. Displaying the same tenacity that they had shown a week earlier in heavy fighting around the Guazapa volcano, the guerrillas were able to surprise and tie down army forces with smoothly coordinated assaults within the provincial capitals of San Vicente...
...million in economic aid, it is also contributing $80 million to the armed forces. In October 1980, Washington sent the first of 51 noncombatant military advisers to El Salvador to sharpen the army's counterinsurgency skills. Last January, the U.S. Army began a training program for 1,466 Salvadoran troops at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Benning, Ga. The Pentagon hopes that the course will solve one key weakness of the army: a lack of skilled young leaders to command small units. Says one U.S. military analyst: "The basic Salvadoran unit isn't trained to patrol. It doesn't ambush...