Word: salvadoran
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...Gulf of Fonseca, which borders Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. The mission is to disrupt the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Marxist-led guerrillas in El Salvador. Pentagon officials stressed that the U.S. ships would remain outside Nicaraguan waters, pro viding only radar assistance to Salvadoran and Honduran naval patrols that attempt to intercept the arms smugglers. Nonetheless, congressional staffers in Washington decried the exercise as "yet another step" toward direct U.S. involvement in a Central American conflict...
...temporary home of some 300 members of the U.S. 224th Military Intelligence Battalion and of about a dozen unarmed U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft. The mission of the top-secret 224th is known to include spy flights over parts of neighboring El Salvador, which provide information for the Salvadoran armed forces in their war against antigovernment guerrillas...
...preparation for a major guerrilla offensive this fall, most likely in September. The increase is said to have been accompanied by a stepped-up guerrilla recruitment campaign, intended to raise their forces to about 14,000. The Administration's fear is that the guerrillas are planning a Salvadoran equivalent to the 1968 Tet offensive in Viet Nam, which heightened popular opposition to a war in the midst of a U.S. presidential election campaign...
Shamie himself has launched an attack on Richardson's recent statements on Central America. Richardson said two weeks ago that he might well have joined the rebellion against" the Salvadoran government before the rebels received Cuban and Soviet Backing...
...Salvadoran rebels immediately took responsibility for the gunfire. The two helicopters, they claimed, were on a reconnaissance mission and had violated airspace in the border region they control. Chiles later said that the helicopter may have flown too close to the border and may even have crossed to the Salvadoran side. But State Department officials were convinced that the aircraft never left Honduras. The helicopters were too far from the border, they maintained, to be reached by gunfire from the Salvadoran side. The State Department's conclusion: the shots came from the Salvadoran guerrillas, all right, but they must...