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Comparisons with Soviet behavior, protests over covert action and the latest bureaucratic maneuvers in Washington have tended to obscure the fact that Marxist-led insurgents in countries like El Salvador are as adept as the U.S. and their clients in their use of firearms. A faction of the Salvadoran rebels reaffirmed that fact last week. Having taken credit for the May 25 assassination of U.S. Military Adviser Lieut. Commander Albert Schaufelberger III in the capital of San Salvador, the so-called Popular Forces of Liberation (F.P.L.) warned that the guerrillas would now step up armed attacks against military...
Whatever its other problems, the Reagan Administration showed no signs of quailing before that threat. The White House has decided to send 20 to 25 U.S. medical specialists to El Salvador. More important, the U.S. has already announced that it will send 100 military advisers to Honduras in order to train Salvadoran troops. In doing so, the Administration gets around the self-imposed ceiling of 55 U.S. trainers allowed in El Salvador. Nonetheless, said an Administration official, "there's no consideration at present of increasing personnel, funding or the level of U.S. involvement" in Central America...
...Four months ago, Hinton married a Salvadoran. While the relationship may have contributed to Hinton's sophisticated understanding of El Salvador, it did not violate any State Department regulations and played no role in his transfer...
...Langhorne) Anthony Motley confirmed to newsmen that he would be replacing Thomas O. Enders as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. The mixed feelings might apply equally well to Thomas R. Pickering, who was unexpectedly nominated last week for the daunting position of U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. But the good-humored nonchalance was vintage Motley...
...often held sway, the election of a civilian President in Honduras 2½ years ago was hailed as a triumph for democracy. For a time, it appeared that this nation of 4 million people, the poorest in Central America, might escape the turmoil that troubles neighboring Nicaragua and El Salvador. But the conflict has since spilled over Honduran borders. U.S.-backed anti-Sandinista guerrillas have turned the country into a staging ground for operations against leftist Nicaragua. Two weeks ago, the Reagan Administration announced that it would send an additional 100 U.S. military advisers to Honduras and that the Americans...