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...Affairs, asserted: "When the worldwide Communist network, aided by a super power, is making a determined effort, unless it is resisted by the other superpower, it succeeds." Bushnell coolly reminded the subcommittee that in the Administration's view no congressional approval is needed to send advisers to El Salvador...
Some legislators are already quarreling with that interpretation, and 46 Congressmen are co-sponsoring a bill to cut off all military aid to El Salvador, which now gets $10 million a year. But Congress, still under the spell of Reagan's landslide election victory, will probably approve aid in the end and not interfere with the dispatch of advisers, if the Administration finally decides on that step...
...Administration is in a feisty mood and thinks it will win, in El Salvador as well as in Congress. William Hyland, a Soviet-affairs specialist sympathetic to the Administration, notes that Brezhnev did not even mention El Salvador in his speech last week, and predicts: "They may let it go down the tubes. It was a minor gamble for them, and it's not paying off. They will always be able to blame the defeat of the Salvadoran Communists on Yankee imperialism." Still, Bushnell had the best one-word description of the Administration's course: "Risky...
...killings continue in bloody El Salvador...
...brutal civil war in El Salvador was between battles last week. In the only major skirmish, Salvadoran soldiers clashed with armed teen-agers sympathetic to the rebel cause in the village of San Lorenzo. The toll, according to an army major: 40 guerrillas and one soldier dead. From their hideouts in remote areas near the border with Honduras, leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front emerged briefly to blockade roads and blow up a number of bridges and power lines. Meanwhile, death squads of both right and left still roamed the land, murdering anyone they suspected...