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Haig used similar terms when he turned to Latin America, the Administration's other publicized battleground in its struggle against Soviet expansionism. If Cuba did not halt the flow of arms to rebels in El Salvador, Haig warned, pos sible U.S. responses "include consideration of a whole range of American as sets." Cuban and Soviet bloc intervention in Latin America, he contended, is part of a "four-phased operation" that began with "the seizure of Nicaragua," a country whose new government Carter courted but Reagan seemed almost prepared to write off. Said Haig: "Next is El Salvador...
...policy of aiding the Salvadoran armed forces in their drive against the country's leftist guerrillas continued to provoke resistance last week. In San Salvador unidentified gunmen sprayed the U.S. embassy with automatic rifle fire. In San José, Costa Rica, a bomb damaged a van carrying U.S. Marine guards to the embassy, wounding three Marines and two civilians. A leftist group claimed credit for the bombing and called for a "halt to the Yankee intervention in El Salvador. "In the Salvadoran countryside, meanwhile, government forces continued their counterinsurgency operations on several fronts. Last week TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich...
Discovering El Salvador...
...more than a year the story was all but ignored by much of the press. Then President Reagan decided to "draw the line" against Soviet and Cuban adventurism in El Salvador, and dispatched some 20 military instructors and $25 million in hardware to the tiny Central American nation. Almost overnight, scores of television, radio, newspaper, wire service and magazine reporters from all over the world descended on the capital city of San Salvador. Soon there were suggestions that El Salvador could turn into another Viet Nam. One reminder of Viet Nam was the press itself. Television crews chased after combat...
...Cuba as a transshipment point for weapons from Ethiopia and Viet Nam, and mentioned guerrilla supply lines through Nicaragua. The grocery-store papers represented over 70% of the material that Washington used to draw up last month's White Paper documenting Soviet and Cuban arms aid to El Salvador's insurgency...