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...White Paper contained many charges that Washington has made in the past, including Sandinista aggression against Nicaragua's native Miskito Indian population. On the subject of exporting revolution, the White Paper charges that some 200 tons of weapons were shipped to Salvadoran guerrillas between late 1979 and early 1981. According to the White Paper, the flow continues, and the report specifically names the Nicaragua command center as the site from which Salvadoran guerrilla attacks and arms deliveries are coordinated. Sums up the report: "This level of outside support adds up to far more than merely marginal assistance for essentially...
...call off the contras. The problem is that Nicaragua has long been willing to discuss such a deal-but unwilling to do anything about its side of the putative bargain. For more than two years, the Sandinistas have offered to squelch any support from their territory for the Salvadoran guerrillas if the U.S. would only provide hard information about the location of the aid-an offer repeated in Ortega's interview with TIME. For nearly a year, the U.S. has pointed to the existence of a Salvadoran guerrilla command center in the suburban outskirts of the Nicaraguan capital...
Late last week the State Department attempted to back up its claims of Nicaraguan aid to the Salvadoran rebels by releasing its second White Paper in two years on the subject (the first was issued in February 1981). Once again Washington asserted that Cuba, with Soviet help, was trying to "consolidate control of the Sandinista directorate in Nicaragua and to overthrow the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala...
Additional evidence of that intervention came last week in the form of a onetime high-level Salvadoran guerrilla. In an interview with TIME, Alejandro Montenegro, 28, a former member of the Salvadoran rebel faction known as the People's Revolutionary Army, declared that starting in 1980, Salvadoran guerrillas "were sent to Managua for training." Communications between the rebels and their leaders are also funneled through the Nicaraguan capital, via hand-held Japanese two-way radios. Regarding arms shipments, Montenegro said, "I would get a radio signal to go to [San Salvador]. Teams had gathered together the arms shipments...
...critical importance of El Salvador's neighbor Honduras in the Central American struggle. Last week the State Department announced that some 100 U.S. military trainers-twice as many as serve in El Salvador-would be sent to Honduras in the next few months to train about 2,400 Salvadoran soldiers. The reason for the move: training the troops in Honduras is one-third to one-quarter as expensive as bringing them to the U.S. for instruction...