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...Salvador, four Americans were killed last December, murders for which, it seems, Salvadoran authorities are heavily accountable. The response from the U.S. was vague protests and military aid. There have been rumors about an alleged "new American consistency," but it seems the only consistency in the U.S.'s policies is its pursuit of self-interests at the expense of truth and real freedom...
...considering another move to counter the Soviets: giving military aid to rebels in Afghanistan and Angola. In an ABC News interview, the President drew a distinction between the U.S. sending arms to the Afghans fighting the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul and Communist countries sending arms to Salvadoran rebels. The Afghans, he said, were not "rebels," they were "freedom fighters ... people fighting for their own country and not wanting to become a satellite of the Soviet Union." Aid to the Afghan rebels has also been suggested by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...
...battlefields, however, Salvadoran officers fighting the guerrillas say they would welcome new military equipment, especially sophisticated communications gear and helicopters. The U.S. justifies the dispatch of instructors as necessary to help the Salvadorans make good use of the new equipment. Finally, Administration officials concede, the advisers comprise a "highly visible" sign of the Reagan Administration's determination to fight Communist "indirect armed aggression...
...they found a plastic garbage bag and a large suitcase, both filled with papers. At first the papers sat on a dusty, police-office desk; no one imagined that the scores of documents would provide most of the U.S. proof that the Cubans and Soviets supplied arms to the Salvadoran guerrillas. Their recovery was due to the enterprise, and luck, of Diplomat Jon Glassman, 37, a political counselor at the U.S. embassy in Mexico City...
...final decision was made at the highest level, with Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger actively involved. The plan: to station a limited number of American "trainers" in provincial garrisons with the Salvadoran military. They would be prevented from straying far from protected enclaves by what one top official called "the most strict operational guidelines that could be devised." An interagency group formulated the proposal in a decision memorandum; it was approved two weeks ago by the President at a meeting with...