El Salvador
Sir, — The reasons given by the Reagan Administration to justify supplying even more arms to El Salvador’s military rulers are ludicrous. Unnamed sources (“The Press." March 2,) claim increased Soviet involvement and a threat to the West. The rehtoric is too reminiscent of. the period preceding the Vietnam war. Military aid to El Salvador goes directly to an army whose main distinction is the number of defenceless civilians it kills. These were estimated at over 12,000 in 1982. El Salvador’s problems are caused by the huge gulf between rich and poor in that country not by outside intervention. It is tragic that the poor in El Salvador face even more suffering because of a United States Administration that seems to have become a victim of its own propaganda. — Yours, etc.. T. A. JACKSON. March 4. 1983.
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