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With the Administration's Central American policy in trouble in Congress, senior officials began warning last week that Cuba was planning to increase the shipment of supplies to the estimated 10,000 guerrillas in El Salvador. According to information from within Cuba, they said, the latest arms buildup is in preparation for a major guerrilla offensive this fall, most likely in September. The increase is said to have been accompanied by a stepped-up guerrilla recruitment campaign, intended to raise their forces to about 14,000. The Administration's fear is that the guerrillas are planning a Salvadoran...
Washington's flagging spirits may receive a boost next Sunday, when El Salvador's voters go to the polls for the presidential runoff election between Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte and Roberto d'Aubuisson of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). Almost unnoticed amid the clamor over Washington's covert-action policies, the two rivals have been waging a venomous replay of the first-round campaign that ended on March 25, when Duarte won 43.4% of the 1.5 million votes cast, and D'Aubuisson...
...victory by the ultrarightist D'Aubuisson would undoubtedly lead Congress to cut off U.S. military support for El Salvador, but his chances seemed to be diminishing. When Francisco José Guerrero, who won 19.3% in the March 25 election, refused to throw his support to D'Aubuisson, Christian Democratic pollsters began to predict that Duarte could win as much as 60% of the runoff vote. Duarte appeared to gain a tactical advantage last week when El Salvador's provisional President, Alvaro Magaña, vetoed an ARENA-sponsored proposal for changing the May 6 voting procedure...
Congress is likely to wait until the Salvadoran ballots are counted before deciding on the fate of $62 million worth of proposed U.S. military aid for El Salvador, and of $21 million intended for the contras. Indeed, some of the urgency of those decisions dissipated last month when the Administration released $32 million in discretionary credit to the Salvadoran military for ammunition and spare parts. The credit expires in 120 days. One of the few certainties about U.S. policy in Central America is that the interval between crises is never long. -By George Russell. Reported by Ricardo Chavira with...
...Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 both prohibit the transfer of arms and materiel from the recipient to a third country unless the President consents and Congress is notified. In reality, nothing could stop Israel from reaching an informal agreement with Administration officials to supplement aid to El Salvador and the contras. The Israelis also could increase arms shipments without consulting Washington, knowing full well that such a move would be welcomed by the White House and perhaps be rewarded in some way in the future...