Word: salvadoran
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...deposited heavily armed troops at key locations on the forbidding terrain. According to eyewitnesses, the elite Atlacatl Brigade, some 800 to 1,000 strong, landed near the village of Valladolid, Honduras, violating Honduran airspace and territory as local soldiers looked on impassively. The invaders' mission: to engage leftist Salvadoran guerrilla forces entrenched in pockets along the demilitarized border zone established after El Salvador's four-day war in 1969 with Honduras...
...operation was the first real test for Salvadoran forces trained by a 15-member team of U.S. military advisers sent to El Salvador last March. Armed with U.S.-made M-16 assault rifles and supported by mortars and grenade launchers, the troops fanned out in search of refugee camps that harbored leftist sympathizers, then turned their attention to guerrilla sanctuaries at Arcatao and Los Filos, just across the border in El Salvador...
...rightists were encouraged by the "clarification" of U.S. policy toward El Salvador made by Thomas Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, on July 16. Enders declared U.S. support for free elections and asserted that the Salvadoran conflict called for a solution that "must be democratic . . . Only a genuinely pluralistic approach can enable a profoundly divided society to live with itself without violent convulsions...
...which he said were "inextricably linked" in a tragic cycle. True enough, the U.S. has consistently favored a democratic solution to El Salvador's problems, involving free elections. But conspicuously missing from Enders' speech was any mention of "a well-orchestrated international Communist campaign to transform the Salvadoran crisis into an increasingly internationalized confrontation" between the U.S. and clients of the Soviet Union. The words were those of Enders' boss, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, last February...
...making the guerrilla war in that country a test case for its eagerness to help a friendly government survive "indirect armed aggression" by Cuba and other Communist nations that are funneling weapons to the leftist guerrillas. Though the Mexican President has refused to give them aid in the Salvadoran conflict, he publicly supports the leftists. In addition, he has a longstanding and effusive friendship with Cuba's Fidel Castro at a time when the U.S. wants to get tough with Castro...