Word: salvadoran
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Honduras is the one anomaly in Central America: though it is somewhat wary of its southern neighbor Nicaragua, in fact it is more fearful of its historic rival, El Salvador. Indeed, some Hondurans fear that if Duarte ever mops up the Salvadoran rebels he will turn his American-trained army on Honduras in order to settle some long-standing border disputes...
...combatants. Although the U.S. military is currently barred from advising the contras, the Administration plans to send U.S. advisers to train them in their Honduran camps as soon as Congress passes an aid package. By instilling better discipline, U.S. advisers have been able to improve the behavior of Salvadoran troops; it is hoped that they would do the same for the contras...
Victims of a break-in and burglary at a church which houses a Salvadoran refugee and a Central American activist group claim the U.S. government may have had a role in the incident...
Church administrator Peggy Smith said this was the first time property had been stolen in the break-ins which began just prior to granting of sanctuary to a Salvadoran labor unionist at the church near Harvard University...
...could not say as much for the latest elections in El Salvador where the U.S. is propping up a repressive government with massive military and economic aid. In its efforts to support democracy, the Reagan Administration has just announced that it will resume training of Salvadoran police who have been implicated in a decade of mass terror and murder...