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...want to take away anything from the joy of the hostages' return, but we should think about the Viet Nam veterans and P.O.W.s, who were subjected to a lot more hell and for much longer than were the hostages, and who were ridiculed for doing what their country asked. Paula K. Randall Taos...
Soviet and Cuban involvement in El Salvador, for example, has become increasingly evident in recent weeks. Documents captured by Salvadoran authorities describe a trip by guerrilla leaders to the Soviet Union, Viet Nam, Ethiopia and several Eastern European countries, during which they obtained commitments from Communist leaders for weapons and uniforms. According to U.S. intelligence officials, deliveries are handled by Cuba, often through Nicaragua. The Administration intends to make Soviet-bloc support of the guerrillas in El Salvador a major issue in East-West relations. A delegation of top State Department and CIA officials, led by Lawrence Eagleburger, Haig...
...office into a "people's lobby" where voters could come with problems. Along the way she became active in the Democratic National Committee, especially after Bailey became chairman in 1961, and was instrumental in pushing through a minority report at the 1968 Chicago convention opposing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Two years later she ran successfully for Congress and was re-elected...
...influence. You can see what's happening: the balance of deterrence-or the balance of terror if you like-between the Soviet Union and the U.S. and Europe is holding the line across Europe. But you are getting troubles almost girdling the world below the NATO belt. Viet Nam and Cambodia, Iran and Iraq, Ethiopia, Somalia and Angola, Central America and the Caribbean. There are times when your front line may be way beyond NATO. I do think that is something we need to look at, because raw materials lines are absolutely vital to the capability to defend yourself...
...Reagan Administration is angered by the Sandinistas' all too enthusiastic support for the leftist rebels in neighboring El Salvador. Documents reportedly captured last month from leftist guerrillas indicate that weapons were offered to El Salvador by the Soviet Union, its East European satellites, Viet Nam and Ethiopia. And as one U.S. official puts it, "All that stuff either came from the moon or it came through Nicaragua." A State Department task force is trying to determine the extent to which the regime is officially involved in the arms traffic. If it concludes that the Sandinistas abetted the shipments...