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...million in military assistance. The proportions in fiscal 1986 would be the same. State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb rejected the report's contention that aid to repair the ravages of war, like medical care for refugees, is militarily related. He was less insistent on the number of U.S. servicemen in the embattled country. Said he: "We never claimed that we have only 55 military personnel in El Salvador, although we have adhered to our self-imposed ceiling of 55 military trainers." A U.S. embassy official in San Salvador confirmed that up to 120 American military personnel are in the country...
...remains of 93 Americans to the U.S., including the bones of six U.S. war casualties that were returned last July. The U.S., which has accused Viet Nam of hoarding American dead for diplomatic leverage, possesses one five-year-old intelligence report that says about 400 bodies of American servicemen were stored in a Hanoi warehouse. The source of the report is a Vietnamese defector who worked as an undertaker on U.S. war dead in Hanoi. The Vietnamese have denounced these allegations as "slanderous." Conjectures about Viet Nam's maneuvering, however, were underscored last July when a U.S. military delegation traveled...
Islamic Jihad, the radical Shi'ite Muslim group that has claimed responsibility for a number of terrorist acts, including the October 1983 bombing that resulted in the deaths of 241 U.S. servicemen in Beirut, had said repeatedly that it was holding Levin. Last week it issued a statement contending that it had decided to release him because "we have established that the American correspondent was not involved in any espionage or subversion against Islamic forces." The militants denied that Levin had escaped. Syria went along with the contention that Levin had been released. Ambassador to the U.S. Rafiq Jouejati said...
BLOODS: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR BY BLACK VETERANS by Wallace Terry. Twenty articulate ex-servicemen contribute to a moving verbal portrait of beleaguered pride and surprising patriotism...
...election outcome was undisguised. A State Department spokesman hailed the islanders for concluding "a yearlong process aimed at putting Grenada firmly back on a democratic path." Said the spokesman: "We look forward to cooperating with the new government." The Administration asserted that despite the continuing presence of 225 U.S. servicemen on Grenada, it had tried to stay out of the contest. Said a U.S. official: "We maintained a hands-off policy. But anyone who knows anything at all about Grenada knew that a moderate party was the best bet. What everybody wanted was a government that was neither leftist...