Word: salvadoreans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOMETIMES I THINK I'm crazy when I hear the Fl Salvadorean and U.S. governments deny killings by the National Guard." Anne Nelson, a writer for The Nation says, "They say the violence didn't happen, and I say it did. I have to refer constantly to my memories of last October--peasants' bodies in fields, militarymen shooting unarmed peasants and placing guns in their hands--or else I too could be convinced...
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...
...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 They'll be withdrawn when that time comes.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...
Withdrawal of Advisers in El Salvador 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 there doing. I don't really know how long it will take...