Word: salvadore
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...Salvador's army gains, but the contras face new problems...
Little more than three weeks after the installation of newly elected President José Napoleón Duarte, El Salvador is once again reverberating with the sounds of combat. But this time they are not the sounds of defeat. The Morazan operation, part of an 8,000-man nationwide counterinsurgency sweep that also covered the departments of San Miguel, Cabañas, Usulután and Chalatenango, was the first assault since a military shake-up sent two officers to posts overseas shortly before Duarte's inauguration. Another auspicious sign for Duarte came when a Salvadoran judge sentenced five...
...gonna stay that way." The Administration still expects the guerrillas to launch a new offensive in the fall, timed to embarrass Reagan just before the U.S. elections. "It is absolutely essential," says Colonel Joseph Stringham, the recently departed head of the U.S. military group in El Salvador, "that the Salvadoran armed forces keep their operation going so that the guerrillas can't stop and resupply or take a break...
...Reagan Administration has long claimed that many of the arms used by rebel forces in El Salvador are supplied by the Marxist-led Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Washington justifies its support of the antigovernment contra forces largely as a way to stanch this flow. Last week a former CIA analyst made the unsettling charge that for the past three years the agency has been unable to produce hard evidence that such shipments are still occurring...
...major sore point between Honduras and the U.S. is the training of Salvadoran soldiers on Honduran soil. In 1969, El Salvador and Honduras fought a brief war; though animosities have abated, a border dispute remains. Recently, Washington insisted that 1,200 Salvadorans be allowed to participate in the joint U.S.-Honduran miltary exercises, dubbed Granadero I, that aided last week. In addition, some 4,000 Salvadorans have been trained at a Honduran military base near Puerto Castilla. Honduran military officials are renegotiating with the U.S. the terms of operating the base. Though the Salvadorans will probably remain, the Honduran government...