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...military personnel are involved in seven separate regional exercises. The U.S. contingents include about 120 Army engineers who are building roads near Honduras' Palmerola Air Force Base, a company of infantrymen patrolling near the same site, and a dozen servicemen who assisted at a Salvadoran-Honduran naval exercise that ended last week. Most of the recent arrivals are early harbingers of a major U.S. joint exercise with Honduras known as Big Pine III, which will take place sometime after the first of the year. Previous Big Pine maneuvers have involved upwards of 5,000 U.S. servicemen...
Instead of Panamamans we meet the revolutionary elite of Central America, from Damel Ortega, a member of Nicatagua's ruline runta, to 'Marcial' the nom deguette of the Ho Chi Minh of the Salvadoran revolution In his description of these figures Greene forgets Castro's advice to Torrijos Prudence and caution are precisely what is lacking in his glowing as counts of his meetings with these leaders While Greene clearly shares Torrijos' dream of a social democratic Central America he does not explore the threat that Ortega and Marcial pose to this dream. Marcial, who killed himself last year...
Despite the disclaimers, the manual again raised questions about whether Washington's support for the contras was designed merely to put pressure on the Nicaraguan government to stop its support of the Salvadoran rebels, as the Administration claims, or to overthrow the Nicaraguan government, as critics charge. According to Casey, the CIA-supplied documents state that the aim of the contras "is the development of a democratic and pluralistic government in Nicaragua." Countered Republican Senator Charles Mathias Jr. of Maryland: "The policy implied is the overthrow of an established government...
...also kept on fighting. They ambushed a police patrol and tried to knock out a water-pumping station last week in San Salvador. That attack failed, but it was the first extended bout of warfare in the capital in recent months. A trio of rebels also gunned down a Salvadoran guard as he walked to his job at the U.S. embassy...
Another bizarre event last week slightly bruised relations between Duarte and the U.S. A Salvadoran peasant union member told the U.S. embassy that his 14-year-old son had been murdered by a right-wing death squad. Embassy officials promptly issued a statement denouncing the killing and urging a government inquiry. President Duarte scolded the mission for not informing him first or verifying the facts. Six days later, the union member, Alirio Montes, offered such a jumbled, contradictory story that union officials concluded the killing never happened. Said Ambassador Pickering: "We were reacting to what we thought was a bona...