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Time and again, the Reagan Administration has charged Nicaragua with running a secret arms pipeline to the Marxist guerrillas of El Salvador. The insurgents deny the accusation, claiming that they capture most of their arms from U.S.-supported Salvadoran troops. Last week, in a bid to prove its case as Congress considered a request for additional military aid to El Salvador, the Administration opened its intelligence cupboard wider than ever before...
...most intriguing exhibits were blurry "low light" television footage taken from U.S. AC-130 reconnaissance aircraft off the Salvadoran coast. According to General Paul Gorman, head of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama, one series of images showed a Nicaraguan "mother ship" unloading crates into small seagoing canoes. The canoes then speed toward shore near El Salvador's Lempa River, where the cargo was packed onto mules and taken inland. To novice viewers, the film sequence resembled nothing more than a series of large and small white blobs. Gorman insisted, however, that the film showed only about...
...leftist guerrilla group attempted to rob a bank in Soyapango, a working-class suburb of San Salvador, killing a security guard and taking 73 hostages. Police surrounded the bank, while Red Cross officials negotiated with the rebels. After nearly 23 tense hours, the guerrillas surrendered. The episode alarmed Salvadoran authorities: until recently, the rebels had rarely launched an attack so close to the capital...
...Despite this, Gorman offered new evidence to support the Administration's contention that the Sandinista government is partly to blame for the guerrilla successes in El Salvador. During a closed session, he showed video tapes shot in June of what appeared to be Nicaraguan boats unloading weapons onto Salvadoran beaches...
...Salvadoran President José Napoleon Duarte, the trip was both a diplomatic triumph and a personal vindication. Making his first tour of Western Europe since his victory in the May 6 elections, Duarte was greeted warmly in West Germany last week, met with cordiality in Paris, and invited to visit Britain, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and Ireland. That marked a decided change in attitude by the West Europeans, who have long shunned El Salvador as a chronic human rights violator. So bad were relations that in 1979 West Germany suspended aid to El Salvador, and in 1980 the European Community...