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...here that the Administration blind spot is most disconcerting. Granted Pentagon waste did not start in with the Reaganites, but clearly a fresh perspective is needed when President Reagan calls current U.S. aid to El Salvador--an amount which, according to published estimates allots more than $20,000 per Salvadoran guerilla--"niggardly," and likens the funding to "letting El Salvador slowly bleed to death." Clearly it is needed when, in the age of $50 screwdrivers and massive cost overruns. Weinberger says of inefficiency and corruption in Defense contracting: "there isn't any to start with, and it has no effect...
...Washington, meanwhile, a former Salvadoran guerrilla commander who has been cooperating with U.S. intelligence gave support last week to an oft-disputed assertion of the Reagan Administration by noting that "99.9%" of the Salvadoran guerrillas' weapons once came from Nicaragua. According to Administration officials, the guerrillas are now doing so badly that they have to recruit new members forcibly...
...construction workers are toiling in the sweltering tropical heat to erect dozens of elevated wooden barracks. Each of the $2,000 buildings is made to last. Those already completed make up the nucleus of the Regional Military Training Center, where 150 U.S. advisers have instructed 6,000 Honduran and Salvadoran recruits over the past 13 months. Near by, workers have constructed sandbagged guard positions and bunkers large enough to shelter every serviceman in case of attack. "These soldiers are facing a tough enemy," says an American trainer. "As long as there is trouble down here...
...between the two countries and still believe, as an opposition leader puts it, that "once El Salvador settles its internal problem, it will set its sights on us again." In the past three months, the Honduran government has insisted that there be as many Honduran trainees as Salvadoran and that it, rather than the U.S. advisers, determine how many Salvadorans enter the country...
President Reagan had requested $21 million in additional support for the contras in a $1.1 billion emergency spending bill that also included $62 million in military aid for the Salvadoran government and $100 million to create summer jobs for teenagers. The Democratic majority in the House had for months refused to approve the spending package unless the disputed funds were dropped. With the White House's reluctant approval, the Republican-controlled Senate finally gave in, voting 88 to 1 to save the spending bill by shelving aid to the contras...