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...declared that starting in 1980, Salvadoran guerrillas "were sent to Managua for training." Communications between the rebels and their leaders are also funneled through the Nicaraguan capital, via hand-held Japanese two-way radios. Regarding arms shipments, Montenegro said, "I would get a radio signal to go to [San Salvador]. Teams had gathered together the arms shipments as they came in, and they had the responsibility for transporting them to us." The source of the clandestine arms shipments was Cuba, via Nicaragua...
Montenegro's testimony pointed to the critical importance of El Salvador's neighbor Honduras in the Central American struggle. Last week the State Department announced that some 100 U.S. military trainers-twice as many as serve in El Salvador-would be sent to Honduras in the next few months to train about 2,400 Salvadoran soldiers. The reason for the move: training the troops in Honduras is one-third to one-quarter as expensive as bringing them to the U.S. for instruction...
...Nicaragua to Salvadoran rebels. A totally absurd excuse for the U.S. to commit aggression against us. We did not invent the Salvadoran revolution. As recently as 1977, their guerrilla movement was stronger than ours. The Salvadoran revolutionaries do not have military bases here. If they have bases outside El Salvador, they are in Guatemala and Honduras...
...advisers in El Salvador, the war grows all too close...
Students at the Central American University in San Salvador were drifting through the campus after their classes when U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Albert A. Schaufelberger III drove up in his Ford Maverick to collect Consuelo Escalante, manager of the university cooperative store. Schaufelberger, 33, a bachelor, had been seeing Escalante regularly and often picked her up after work. The Navy officer was wearing civilian clothes, as he often did since coming to El Salvador nine months earlier to help administer U.S. security assistance and train government forces in their war against leftist guerrillas...