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Furthermore, Reagan's policy toward El Salvador, Guatemala and other Latin American governments shows a complete willingness to support institutionalized, state-sponsored terrorism of the right wing. The resistance to recognize Bolivia stems not from human rights violations, but from concern about cocaine, produced in Bolivia and sold in the United States. Deep involvement of top-ranking officers in cocaine trade has been documented beyond doubt. Analysts of Bolivian polities suspect that control over this 800-million-dollar-a-year business was a central reason for the July coup...
...Harvard, this kind of pressure is likely to be extremely effective. If students feel they must give money somewhere this spring, they would be serving a more honorable purpose by aiding the Central American refugee fund administered by the American Friends Services Committee, as The Harvard/Radcliffe Committee on El Salvador has suggested, or any other organization working for world peace, such as Oxfam or CARE. And if graduating seniors feel an irresistible compulsion to give money to Harvard, they should support the Steve Biko Fund, a program that helps Black South Africans study at Harvard...
...also hope that seniors will see fit to wear green and white sashes on their commencement gowns. The symbolic protest against the violation of human rights in El Salvador and in memory of the slain children of Atlanta, organized by the campus committee on El Salvador, deserves the support as well of the class marshalls. They should decide at their meeting today to recommend that all seniors wear this decoration, a simple affirmation of the principles we might have learned here...
...most controversial element in the $25 million U.S. military aid package for El Salvador is the accompanying contingent of 54 American military "trainers." They are naval technicians and helicopter pilots, assigned to teaching their Salvadoran counterparts how to use and maintain the sophisticated equipment the U.S. is providing. Just as important, they are teaching them the skills and tactics needed to fight a counterinsurgency war, combat for which the Salvadoran armed forces had never prepared...
...thing, the Americans insist that their role has evolved and changed greatly in the years since Viet Nam. They feel strongly that U.S. ground troops in El Salvador would not only be unnecessary, but counterproductive. Further, they emphasize that, as a matter of policy, they guard against making the Salvadorans dependent on U.S. logistics and technology. "That's something we are now particularly keyed against," says one young officer, "not to go in and force our system on theirs." Finally, for all their frustration, the Green Berets definitely believe they belong in El Salvador. "As long...