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...efforts on finding ways to counter the Soviet Union on the potential battlefields of Europe. Increasingly, however, America's real military challenges have been of a less conventional sort. A string of hostage crises in Iran and Lebanon, instability throughout the Persian Gulf, guerrilla wars that threatened El Salvador and other Third World allies, and the emergence of Soviet-aligned regimes in places like Nicaragua and Grenada have hammered home the need for ways to handle some very different military tasks: snatching hostages from the grip of terrorists, perhaps, or helping U.S.-allied governments fight Communist-led guerrillas...
...Operatives from ISA and Seaspray gathered intelligence in El Salvador that greatly helped counter a leftist guerrilla insurrection...
...contras, Nicaraguan Vice President Sergio Ramirez Mercado said, then Managua will not institute reforms and the Guatemala plan will collapse. Nonetheless, there is genuine hope among the Central American leaders that their accord will succeed. Under the plan, Nicaragua's contras and leftist rebel groups in El Salvador and Guatemala would be deprived of new arms, and the contras would be ejected from their bases in Honduras. Not surprisingly, the contras remain deeply suspicious. "There's just no way we're going to put down our arms and surrender," says Contra Leader Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Jr. "We will not disarm...
Jose Napoleon Duarte has enjoyed his share of lucky breaks over the years, but even he must appreciate the propitious timing of the latest Central American peace proposal. Often cited as the showcase of U.S. efforts to bolster democracy in Central America, El Salvador is in deepening trouble. The civil war that has claimed 70,000 lives in eight years shows no sign of winding down. A much heralded campaign to revive the economy has foundered. Even the President's most striking accomplishment, the sharp reduction in killings by right-wing Salvadoran death squads, has been compromised by a recent...
...active after the U.S. invasion of Grenada. He said Cuba has steadily acquired U.S. technology, in violation of the American trade ban, through Panamanian Strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega, who reaped millions from the transactions. Noriega, he said, helped Cuba send arms to Nicaragua and to rebel groups in El Salvador, Honduras and Colombia...