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Crimson: In a worst-case scenario, would you favor sending U.S. military troops if necessary to keep the EI Salvadorean government from falling...
Weinberger: Well, I'd have to see what that worst-case scenario really was. I'm very hopeful and reasonably confident that the EI Salvadorean government will be able to dispose of the guerillas, but if they keep pouring in more weapons and arms and PLO-types from various other parts of the world why then [the government] might have more trouble in handling the situation. But I hope this doesn't happen...
...means there isn't any front line and the whole country's dangerous, but it's dangerous to cross the street in New York City and there's no place that's risk-free. But I think we've done everything that we can to insure that the EI Salvadorean government, which has embarked on a course of liberalization and land reform and all, is supported in the way in which they think is effective, and what they've asked for is military and economic aid and 50 advisers, trainers. And that's what they're going...
...reasonably informal kind of shifts But I don't know when the actual training mission will be formally completed. They'll be withdrawn when that time comes. There isn't any particular timetable. There is a need to do a job, and that's a job which the EI Salvadorean government wants, and that's what they're down doing. I don't really know how long it will take...
...between El Salvador's junta and extremist Left and Right? He is reluctant to offer a solution. "It is very difficult to come from outside and say: "This is what you should do.' I don't live there, I'm not exposing my hide. I'm not an El Salvadorean intellectual who might get shot. It is not for Mexicans or Americans to decide what is right for El Salvador...