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...earlier suspended all military aid to El Salvador pending the outcome of an investigation by a Salvadoran commission into the murders of four American missionaries last month. Despite the lack of evidence that any investigation was even going forward, Washington moved swiftly to resume $5 million in nonlethal matériel-jeeps, trucks and transport helicopters, with U.S. technicians to maintain them...
...also rushed an additional $5 million in emergency-"lethal," meaning combat-equipment, including M-16 rifles and M-79 grenade launchers, as well as four more helicopters and a dozen more U.S. technicians. In fact, the Salvadoran military could probably outfit two battalions with the caches captured from the guerrillas during their offensive. Most of the weapons were of Western manufacture: Belgian automatic rifles, Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns and U.S. M16s. There were also large numbers of Soviet grenades and Chinese-made rocket launchers. The weapons, bought in many places and stockpiled in Nicaragua, according to intelligence reports...
...Washington, the renewed U.S. aid, and especially the dispatch of U.S. personnel for training and the maintenance of sophisticated equipment, raised edgy questions about the wisdom of direct U.S. involvement in the Salvadoran conflict. The junta is already sensitive to accusations that it is being propped up by the U.S., and to comparisons with the U.S.-backed regime in South Viet...
...price of this aid has been the deaths of countless Salvadorans and seven Americans; and the junta our government labels "reform-minded" has proved incapable even of controlling its own American-armed military forces. Carter's resumption of military aid sets the stage all too well for Ronald Reagan's escalation of this support, harming the Salvadoran people and staining the American conscience once again as it supports the people's adversary...
Four FBI agents arrived in San Salvador last week to launch a more thorough investigation. After days of stonewalling, the Salvadoran government belatedly named a "high-level civilian and military commission" to "find the guilty people and punish them." But the three military members of the new four-man commission included two close friends of Defense Minister Garcia and a first cousin of Police Chief López Nuila...