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El Salvador: The Next "Vietnam"

By VVAW

Even as THE VETERAN is being printed the situation in El Salvador looks increasingly serious. Before leaving office the Carter administration renewed aid to the military government in that country and the Reagan administration has continued the series of U.S. blunders by removing the U.S. Ambassador who had the courage to criticize U.S. policies there. Even more serious is the news that U.S. "advisors" have been tripled; while the number is still quite low, those of us who remember the early days of Vietnam are aware that it doesn't take much to get involved, and Reagan's a vowed anti-communist crusade leaves no room for a liberation struggle.