U.S. officials launch an offensive over El Salvador
"The insurgency in El Salvador has I been transformed into a textbook case of indirect armed aggression by Communist powers." With that stark assertion, the Reagan Administration last week launched a carefully orchestrated campaign to demonstrate that the Soviet Union, Cuba, Viet Nam and other Communist nations have been smuggling arms to the leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. The Administration's motive is to win support for increased U.S. military aid to that strife-torn nation, and the intensity of the effort is stunning.
A U.S. delegation headed...
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