US military advisor in Honduras As the coffins return trom the Lebanon. tear grow about Centra People remember when over 50,000 US Vietnam wal soldiers were killed.
Reagan has now got a boost with the report of the bipartisan commission on Central America, headed Henry direct Vis This direct military intervention closer with the blessing of leading Democrats, like commission member Robert Strauss and right wing union leader Lane Kirkland The commission mumbles about human TOOLS Du LIS is lus face-saver to cover up for US imperialism's aggression supported by Republican and Democrat commission members alike.
Kissenger said Central America comes out. It we cannot manage Central America impossible T W1| convince threatened natons in the Persian Gulf and in other places that we know how to manage the global equilibrium' The commission dorses this sayıng "The advance of Soviet Cuban the American mainland affects the global balance' It concludes by saying the US and administration have failed to do enough militarily adds, "The worst possible policy for El Salvador is to provide just enough aid to keep the war going but too UNITED STATES President Reagan woke up with a major headache in 1984. The Cuban revolution was celebrating its 25th year and its example has inspired revolutions in Grenada and Nicaragua now As a matter of urgency, Reagan has to consider direct military intervention to maintain imperialist But in election year such involvement faces mounting opposition as people contrast economic cutbacks at home with increased military spending.
little to wage successfully'. It recommends aid to Central American regimes of $ billion for the next five years.
The cosmetic clauses in the report about human rights can't hide the reality that these conditions apply after guaranteed years of uninterrupted aid increase to the El Salvador regime.
Kissinger has already opened the door for the administration ignore the human rights sections of the report with the view that, 'Neither the Congress nor the executive should interpret conditonality in a manner that leads to a Marxist-Leninist victory in salvador major escalation or rae uS This report heralds war drive in Central America. Following the invasion of Grenada and the stationing of 25,000 US army personnel off the coast and borders of El Salvador the administration is preparing cise min, Honduras terHonduras June, codenamed Big Pine III.
It will use the bipartisan agreement of the Kissinger commission defuse opposition to direct US military intervention in El Salvador and Nicaragua in election year.
The solidarity novelett Europe and America will need to be on ful alert to respond to stepped up agdualist popular revolutions unfolding in El Salvador and The administration making new approaches to turo pean governments to avoid the kind of diplomatic emthe Grenada invasion.
In the next few months ine brush labour move. ment has a vital job. It SHUS stop the Thatcher government giving ng support lo US AID • $ millions 1981 1982 El Salvador:
$81.0 $35.5 $179.5 $104 0 Guatemala:
nil $1.0 $18.7 $23.8 Honduras:
$31.0 $8.9 $75.6 $38.5 Reagan's war drive. •Op position should be built to the sending of British government observers the Salvadorean presiden tial elections March The Labour Party lead this attack on Tory policy. The present tour of Britain b Salvadorean unionists can be used boost these appeals for solidarity. 1983 $81.3 $227.0 $10.5 $102.6 $58.2 $93.1 $93.1 nil nil *The annual cost of the US covert war against Nicaragua was estimated at $30 to $50 million for 1 1983. The CIA wants $80 million for 1984 to
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