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Criticizing the United States for cutting off loans to Nicaragua's Sandinista government and for aiding the Salvadoran junta. Cardenal warned that his countryment would take up arms again to protect their two-year-old revolution against any aggression...
...most controversial element in the $25 million U.S. military aid package for El Salvador is the accompanying contingent of 54 American military "trainers." They are naval technicians and helicopter pilots, assigned to teaching their Salvadoran counterparts how to use and maintain the sophisticated equipment the U.S. is providing. Just as important, they are teaching them the skills and tactics needed to fight a counterinsurgency war, combat for which the Salvadoran armed forces had never prepared...
...only Americans even close to the field are the three five-man Green Beret "small unit training teams," which conduct two-and three-week training programs for Salvadoran infantry companies. They are members of the 7th Special Forces Battalion based in Panama. All are fluent in Spanish, and most have previously served on similar training teams in other Central or South American countries. TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, who conducted the only interviews given by these officers, found them determined to approach their assignment with cool professionalism. "The only change for us is that there is a shooting war going...
Micheal Lavery, a New York-based Maryknoll layman who is a friend of Bourgeois, said yesterday Duarte's statement was "an attempt to unjustly blame the victim, and to lessen any possible suspicion of the El Salvadoran paramilitary's involvement in the priest's disappearance...
Marshall also said Colonel Jose Guillermo Garcia. El Salvador's Defense and public Security Minister, is conducting an investigation in Bourgeois' disappearance. She added that the U.S. consular office in San Salvador is working with the three El Salvadoran detectives assigned to the case