Kissinger's panel urges more military and economic aid for Central America
The recommendations took five months of debate to frame and 132 pages to spell out. But the essence of the Kissinger commission's prescription for U.S. policy toward war-torn Central America could be put in a single word: more. More recognition, to begin with, that the U.S. has a vital interest in combatting Marxist revolution in the isthmus, and the misery and oppression that feed such revolution. Thus much more aid of every kind: more guns, ammunition, helicopters for friendly governments, but also...
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