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...growing cohesiveness of the Democratic Alliance, a loose federation of the nation's five major opposition parties. The most recent demonstration was part of a protest organized by the Democratic Alliance to mark the tenth anniversary last Sunday of the military coup that ousted the elected government of Salvador Allende Gossens and brought Pinochet to power...
...Panama, he waded through the muddy jungle to watch American infantrymen stage a brisk firing exercise with live ammunition. Off the coast of El Salvador, he was literally lifted off his feet by a salvo from the 16-in. guns of the recommissioned battleship U.S.S. New Jersey. In between, he took a tense helicopter ride, spiraling into a heavily guarded barrio of El Salvador's provincial capital, San Vicente. After he touched down, he expressed his concern and sympathy to residents of a Salvadoran refugee camp...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's three-day tour of inspection to Panama, El Salvador and Honduras last week was intended to make the Defense Secretary a "better advocate," as he put it, for Reagan Administration policy in troubled Central America. It was no accident that the area circumscribed by Weinberger's journey was the scene of the most important new buildup of American military force in the Western Hemisphere...
Central American policy issues also made demands on the Administration. Significantly, a U.S. official met with the political leadership of El Salvador's leftist rebels last week. In Washington, the bipartisan commission charged with recommending long-range U.S. policy concerning the often neglected nations of Central America began its deliberations, taking testimony from two former Presidents and four retired Secretaries of State. And in the background loomed the U.S.-Soviet talks about Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF), due to pick up again in Geneva this week, and Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), scheduled to resume next month...
Certainly there is much public confusion, ignorance and volatility about Central America. A CBS News-New York Times poll in June showed that only 8% knew which sides the U.S. supports in El Salvador and Nicaragua. The better informed were the more opposed to deeper involvement. Edward R. Tufte, a Yale professor of political science, concludes that since Viet Nam, Presidents can no longer count on uninformed loyalty: Reagan's problem is that he suffers from "uninformed skepticism and informed hostility," Yet Democratic presidential candidates are wary of this foreign policy issue, perhaps seeing themselves some...