Word: salvadors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last night he criticized the Administration's involvement in Grenada, El Salvador and Nicaragua...
...people united will never be defeated," they screamed. The people defeated themselves, though, at the forum where Caspar Weinberger spoke. When Mr. Weinberger walked onto the stage, a tomato joined him followed by loud chants of "one, two, three, four, U.S. out of El Salvador." The flag of the United States of America was suspended, upside down, from the bleachers and posters read "Caspar Weinberger Mass Murderer". For people trying to change American policy because they care about our democratic ideals, the flag and the constant chanting that made free speech an impossibility were hypocritical, especially at Harvard whose motto...
Equally alarming to the Administration are recent indications that left-wing guerrillas have been gaining ground in El Salvador's countryside. In the past two months some 7,000 rebels have attacked more than 60 towns, putting the country's U.S.-trained 25,000-man army on the defensive. Acknowledged a military observer: "The Salvadoran forces are tired and frustrated. Their morale has been shot." Evidence of the increased influence of the guerrillas can be seen in the hamlet of Chirilagua, 90 miles southeast of San Salvador. In September, 200 rebels attacked, routing the 20-man National Guard...
...still. In Lebanon everything is different: the terrain, the players, the tactics, the goals and the intentions of American leaders. But we disdain mundane details like history, geography and strategy. Viet Nam is everywhere. Every exercise in what used to be called containment-55 advisers in El Salvador, for example-is now called "another Viet Nam." If the Grenada operation had lasted more than a week, one can be sure the dreaded memory would have been hauled out yet again. Che Guevara once promised two, three (American radicals added "many") Viet Nams. He went to Bolivia to get things started...
...Salvador, LaFeber claims that U.S. policies have failed on two counts. Increased aid and training to Salvadoran troops has not produced a victory over leftist guerrillas in the civil war and the much publicized election of March 2, 1982 have only ducted the rebels' cause by bringing to power a reactionary coalition that has curbed the land reform program and perhaps even tacitly sanctioned political violence. The only hope appears to be a coalition of moderates from both the right and the left although such partnership will inevitably invite violence from both extremes. The lack of solutions is painfully clear...