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...late" policy makes neither tactical nor humanitarian sense; there is no great mystery about whom it benefits, however. The short-term economic interest of a few major companies and the geopolitical imperatives of a few ideologues have been well served. Though direct American investment in El Salvador is now only about $100 million, it and other Central American nations provide a substantial market for subsidiaries of U.S. companies. And the "hit list" theory propounded by Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig holds that the advance must be checked at every turn or there will be dire consequences for the free...
...government's willingness to forget about El Salvador makes sense; it fits with everything one would expect from the historical record of our foreign policy. And the forgetfulness of the left, or liberals, of the Democratic party, is not really shocking, for it also matches historical patterns of laziness and neglect. The second phemonenon--the amnesia of the left--will have to be cured before the first--the government's moral and strategic blindness--can be cured. Until it does, the cycle of crisis-alarm-forgetfulness will continue. Fifty-four weeks is a damn short stretch of time...
...world. Although the U.S. has yet to develop a comprehensive Middle East policy, the early emphasis on forging a strategic anti-Soviet consensus in the region has been balanced by giving more attention to resolving the Palestinian question. Latin-American policy has long been dominated by concern over El Salvador, which Washington charged was being threatened by leftist rebels whose support came from Cuba and Nicaragua. In a meeting with Nicaragua's Foreign Minister last week, Haig slightly modified the Administration's harsh rhetoric about that country's arms buildup and spoke of a possible normalization...
...behavior of Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista government. The U.S. is concerned about what Haig calls the "drift toward totalitarianism" of the Nicaraguan regime, the presence of some 1,500 Cuban military advisers in the country and the role of Nicaragua in supporting the left-wing guerrillas in El Salvador. Haig is also irked by Nicaragua's own heavy arms buildup, which he believes is sponsored by Cuba and the Soviet Union. As one U.S. official put it, the buildup threatens to turn the tiny republic (pop. 2.7 million) into "a superpower in Central American terms...
Reagan Administration officials maintain, despite Nicaraguan denials, that Soviet arms in Nicaragua are, in turn, being handed on clandestinely by the Sandinista government to aid Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador and other neighboring countries. For that reason, Washington in January decided to suspend some $15 million in promised U.S. aid to Nicaragua. That was possibly an unwise decision, since it reinforced Sandinista charges that the Reagan Administration is merely out to ruin the country. In their recent statements, both Haig and Meese have ruled out unilateral U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua as an antidote to the flow of arms...