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Early in the week, the State Department released a white paper, backed up by an 18-in.-high stack of documents reportedly captured from Salvadoran guerrillas. The white paper was designed to back up Administration charges that the guerrillas had been promised 800 tons of rifles, submachine guns and other arms from the Soviet Union, Cuba, Viet Nam and Hungary and had actually received 200 tons. The paper asserted that most of the weaponry had been smuggled from Cuba through Nicaragua. The evidence in it had already been presented to European and Latin American officials in private briefings. Hardly anyone...
...advisers would be designated as "mobile training teams" and would instruct Salvadoran soldiers on how to handle weapons. Unlike the advisers sent to Viet Nam in the early 1960s, they would not go into combat alongside the Salvadorans, but they could become targets for guerrilla fire. In any case, the very word adviser triggers memories of how the U.S. first got involved in Viet Nam, as Reagan recognized. Asked at his press conference whether aid to El Salvador might plunge the U.S. into a situation from which it could not extricate itself, the President replied, "I know that this...
Venezuela, one of the few democratic countries in Latin America, and an early supporter of the Nicaraguan rebellion, has denounced the El Salvadoran left, and supports the centrist regime. Mexico, too, has shied away from its early support of the guerrillas as their nature and backing became clear...
Womack downplayed the importance of reports that the Soviet Union and Cuba are sending arms to Salvadoran guerrillas, noting that recent events are part of a 25-year-old Central American...
...Salvador Committee organizers emphasized that the march is only the beginning of their plans to mobilize Harvard students against U.S. involvement in El Salvador. They have also proposed for a panel of Salvadoran activists on March 13, and they said they will deliver to Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) petitions containing more than 1000 signatures obtained at Harvard opposing U.S. involvement...