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...evidence in it had already been presented to European and Latin American officials in private briefings. Hardly anyone outside the Communist world seemed to question the report, though Moscow called it "lies." Some U.S. allies, however, voiced concern that Reagan seems determined on a "military solution" for El Salvador instead of a "political solution," presumably some kind of compromise between the junta and the guerrillas. West Germany offered to mediate such a compromise between "representatives of democratic forces" on both sides...
...Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese even hinted at a blockade of Cuba to stop the arms flow. The most likely moves are an added $30 million to $40 million in military aid to the junta, including patrol boats and helicopters-and the sending of U.S. military advisers to El Salvador. Six Navy training and maintenance advisers have already been ordered there. In an obvious attempt to test public opinion, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker remarked after a meeting with Reagan: "It is entirely appropriate for this country to dispatch noncombat advisers in small numbers-50, 100, 150-to tell these people...
...1960s, they would not go into combat alongside the Salvadorans, but they could become targets for guerrilla fire. In any case, the very word adviser triggers memories of how the U.S. first got involved in Viet Nam, as Reagan recognized. Asked at his press conference whether aid to El Salvador might plunge the U.S. into a situation from which it could not extricate itself, the President replied, "I know that this is a great concern. I think it's part of the Viet Nam syndrome. But we have no intention of that kind of involvement...
...backyard." Said Maryland Democrat Clarence Long, chairman of a House subcommittee on foreign operations: "This Administration is making very much the same kind of mistakes that an Administration of my own party made 18 years ago." Long presided over hearings at which witnesses for and against aid to El Salvador turned the air electric with emotion...
...most passionate case against the Administration's developing policy was made by Robert E. White, former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, who was fired by Reagan a month ago. White accused the U.S. military of an "inexplicable" itch to get in on a war that the leftists already are losing. The real threat to the junta, said White, comes from extreme rightists who are opposed to land reform, and specifically from death squads that the junta has been unable to control (see following story). White argued that the junta had crushed the guerrillas' "final offensive" in January "without...