Word: salvadore
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...must be in Central America, let's go with a winner. We can switch our support to the guerrillas in El Salvador simply by calling them antifascist...
...Liberal, Aquino was thinking of running against Marcos in 1987, and had been working with opposition leaders against the President's heavyhanded rule. One of those leaders, Assemblyman Salvador Laurel, was at the airport along with thousands of Aquino followers when the assassination occurred. As word of the shooting rippled through the anguished crowd, Laurel glumly urged, "Be cool, be cool...
...advance force of 250 U.S. soldiers was flown into Honduras, for the start of months of elaborate military exercises with that country's armed forces. The maneuvers, nominally for training purposes, have a more important strategic intent as well: Reagan wants to intimidate the leftist insurgents in El Salvador and, even more, the Sandinista government of Nicaragua that supports them...
...roaring aerobatics, with bombing (500-lb. ordnance) and strafing practice, while near by the destroyer Fife fired off a fusillade of 75-lb. shells. An obviously impressed Magaña gushed, "I am very glad they are on my side." But Rodolfo Castillo Claramount, a leader of El Salvador's moderate Christian Democrats, pleads for more than war games: "If these shows of strength are not accompanied by an equal effort to strengthen democracy, then they...
...Central America or other war zones, could radically change that tough-and-ready policy. During a one-month period early next year, the Big Pine II troops are scheduled to leave Honduras, the Kissinger commission is due to complete its recommendations for U.S. Central American policy and El Salvador has promised its first free election of a President. Perhaps more significantly, way up north in New Hampshire the U.S. presidential primary season begins officially: from now on, domestic political considerations will figure more and more in any Administration plans for foreign military endeavors. "Intervention doesn't have a serious...