Word: southcom
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...military advisers to Honduras, but it reduced its contingent to a skeleton crew during the Falklands war last spring. Meanwhile, Washington established its own links with the Honduran military. Honduran soldiers were sent to training camps in Panama run by the U.S. Army's Southern Command Group (SOUTHCOM) and standard field equipment was provided...
...quality of information has greatly improved over the past few months. Yet even when the information is gilt-edged, Washington is not always eager to listen if the details do not mesh with policy. One U.S. expert praises the intelligence collected by the U.S. Army command (dubbed SOUTHCOM) headquartered in Panama, but he believes its accurate-and pessimistic-assessments of the situation in El Salvador go largely unheeded. Says he: "Policymakers have been getting some very high quality stuff out of SOUTHCOM, and they don't like...