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...time in war games in neighboring Honduras. As the vote drew near, Congress was further roiled by leaks appearing in the press that the Administration planned to expand its covert actions against Nicaragua and possibly to increase the number and activities of U.S. military advisers in El Salvador. All this contributed to a public impression that the Administration is now pushing toward a military solution to the threat of spreading Communist influence in Central America, at the risk of involving the U.S. in what could be a widening...
...argued vociferously that the Soviet Union was going to "test" the U.S. in Central America by promoting leftist revolution. Haig went so far as to draw up contingency plans for blockading Cuba to prevent the shipment of Soviet arms from there to Nicaragua and to rebels in El Salvador. He was ordered by the White House to tone down the bellicose talk, and through most of 1982 the region got a relatively low policy priority. But last whiter Clark, by then transferred to the National Security Adviser's post, began moving to bring Central America back to front and center...
Clark in February dispatched Kirkpatrick to the region on a fact-finding tour. She returned with a gloomy assessment of the entire Central American situation. Her findings prompted the Administration to ask for an additional $110 million in military aid to El Salvador in fiscal 1983, on top of Reagan's original request for $61.3 million. Another point on which Clark and Kirkpatrick agreed, with the support of CIA Director William Casey, was that Thomas Enders, then in charge of Latin American policy at the State Department, should be replaced. They felt that Enders was moving too slowly and cautiously...
...that the CIA was heavily involved in these "covert" operations, training the contras and supplying them with arms. Restive over this far from secret war, congressional leaders demanded to know where the Administration's Nicaraguan policy was heading. With criticism also building of the Administration's approach in El Salvador, Clark in June began another inter-agency review, which quickly flowered into the explosive controversy of today...
Some other aspects of the Administration's new Central American moves are less clear. During Clark's interagency meetings, the Pentagon proposed scrapping the Administration's self-imposed limit of 55 American military advisers in El Salvador (actually, the number now is 47) and increasing the force to 125. Its argument is simply that 55, or 47, advisers are not enough to tram Salvadoran forces on the scale required to defeat the leftist guerrillas. The Pentagon also proposed that the advisers be allowed to accompany Salvadoran government forces in the field, which is prohibited now, though they still would...