Word: salvadore
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...unabashed leftist, Swanson is an intelligent and highly intelligible radical in an age which no longer deals kindly with the breed. Since graduating from Harvard in 1974, he has traveled in the Third World and written extensively about his findings. And whether writing on slain Chilean leader Salvador Allende, Spanish democracy or, most recently, the growing crisis in South Africa, he has never waivered in his impassioned attacks on the victimization of the poor by the rich, the Third World by the superpowers...
Though the maneuvers are scarcely unprecedented, they are clearly extraordinary. Honduras, which borders on war-torn El Salvador as well as Nicaragua, makes an ideal base for U.S. operations in Central America. About 1,500 American troops are stationed there, and the U.S. has built a network of permanent facilities: airfields, antitank ditches, a full-size military hospital. It is no secret that some of these facilities have been used to support American allies outside Honduras. Contra guerrillas battling the Sandinistas in Nicaragua train at American-built camps in Honduras; U.S. pilotless, or drone, planes are said to fly from...
Honduras, meanwhile, is far from comfortable with its role as an anti- Sandinista base. The country is the poorest in the region and complains loudly that Washington's military embrace has failed to bring the kind of economic aid that has been given to El Salvador, Honduras' traditional enemy. Hondurans worry about a collapse of the contra campaign that would cause all 12,000 or so rebels to flee Nicaragua and wander through their country in bands, toting American arms. Already, the country is feeling the strain of serving as a haven for Nicaraguan youths who flee the Sandinista military...
...other Central American nations none at all. Though the Sandinistas are deficient in combat aircraft, they boast 36 helicopters, including at least ten Soviet-made Hind gunships. Hopes that this military machine eventually may be cut back rose a bit last week. Representatives of Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica, meeting in Panama, agreed to set up a commission to monitor the arms-reduction provisions of a regional treaty that they are trying to negotiate. But until an enforceable pact is in effect--if ever...
...Salvador, the war also seems at a stalemate. The Salvadoran army has been more aggressive in conducting sweeps of guerrilla country, and claims to have the Marxist rebels on the defensive. But the guerrillas have proved adept at disappearing into the bush, then materializing again for attacks like the one last week on the village of Santa Cruz Loma (see WORLD...