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...part of its plan to counter subversion in El Salvador, the Reagan Administration announced last week that it was sending 20 more advisers and $25 million in equipment to the Salvadoran government. This brings the total number of U.S. military personnel in El Salvador to 54. In an interview with outgoing CBS Correspondent Walter Cronkite, Reagan stressed the "technicality" that these men would not really be "advisers," but members of "training teams" similar to those working in some 30 foreign countries. Said Reagan: "I certainly don't see any likelihood of us going in with fighting forces...
...continued to simmer. Salvadoran troops moved in and cleared guerrillas off the Conchagua volcano, near La Union. The 700 gunmen reportedly stationed there had retreated long before the assault was finished. Government forces also regained control of the tiny town of San Antonio de Los Ranches in Chalatenango, nearly completing the recapture of villages seized by the guerrillas in their failed January offensive...
Those 19 trainers were joined in El Salvador last week by a six-man naval training team that will help repair engines and radar equipment on Salvadoran patrol boats. The Reagan Administration is also sending four five-man training teams within the next few weeks to instruct Salvadoran troops in such subjects as intelligence, combat techniques and the use and maintenance of helicopters...
...march, however, at the corner of Boylston and South Sts., where some members of the rally tried to divert the marchers to the Kennedy School of Government--contrary to the scheduled route--to protest the appearance of Roy Prosterman, a government land reform expert who has advised the Salvadoran junta on its land redistribution program...
...back to the steps of Widener. But before the remaining three speakers could deliver their addresses. Philip Martin, a student at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, urged the crowd to march back to the K-School to demonstrate the "life and death urgency" of the Salvadoran revolution...