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Would Westmoreland want the news "controlled" at an earlier stage in the process, when military steps or the threat of them might deter a war but might also lead to one? However much the Administration wanted to make El Salvador a testing ground, pollsters report the American public decidedly opposed to military involvement. At another place and another time, with the national interest more clearly at risk, could an Administration in the age of television act boldly? Democracy hasn't found the answer to that question...
...conscription before there is a student left, if you compare where we're out now in terms of consciousness to where we were in '62-'63, we're a lot further along. People, even if they're not out in the streets yet, have some sense of where El Salvador is or for that matter Guatemala...
...Eighties.... They are obsessed with totalitarianism, but what they forget about is fascism. Go ask the president of the Conservative Club if he thinks there's fascism in the world today and he will say no. But how else can you explain the government of El Salvador, the government of Argentina, of Guatemala, of the Philippines, of south Africa. There is fascism in the world today and America is supporting, financing and subsidizing it... I don't think you can turn your back on Guatemala and say. "Look at Leonid Brezhnev; he's such...
Higgins: The so-called issues of the Left are like hemlines. They go up and down and change every year. Last year, the crucial issue was El Salvador. The previous year, the crucial issue for all time was nuclear power. The spring before that, the crucial issue for all time was South Africa. You have to question just how deeply concerned someone is with an issue when he's talking about it as the most important thing today, when next week or six months from now something completely different is the most important thing...
...what has so far been a frustrating battle, students here and elsewhere have continued to demonstrate strong opposition to U.S. support for militaristic governments in Centra! America A contingent of about 75 undergraduates joined tens of thousands in Washington last week in an emphatic demonstration against intervention in El Salvador...