IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

USA 'misled' us on El Salvador

· Socialist Challenge No. 202, 18 June 1981 · p. 12 of the scan · 333 words

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LAURENCE Eagleburger, an Assistant Secretary of State in Reagan's administration visited Europe in February documentary guerillas in El Salvador were being supplied with weapons by the Soviet Union, Cuba and other communist countries.

Based on this evidence European leaders " were solicited for support line Salvador.

The only trouble is that the document wasn't based on papers seized from guerillas' as Eagleburger claimed, but from presumptions of the according to Jon Glassman who was principal author.

evidence TACH the He now describes it as 'misleading' and embellished':

For example, the evidence for *nearly 200 tons of military supplies said to come from TuTed actually comes from 'intelligence Dasea on the air traffic based on the truck traffic Another figure of 800 tons of 'most modern weapons and equipment' was taken from a figure of tons weaponry stored Nicaragua and multiplied by six! of liberation in El Salvador continues and the death toll grows daily. In San Vincent the other the unacitakers lan out of coffins...

London students have chosen July American Independ ence Day, to picket the US Embassy. This organised jointly by the EI Salvador Solidarity Campaign and une London Students OrganisaSpain: abortion MORE than one hundred years imprisonment is being sought in total for eleven women who took part in abortions in Bilbao, Spain. The prosecutor is asking for sentences ranging from 60 years for the women who carried out the abortions to six months for the women who underwent them.

All abortion in Spain is totally ilDock streets to abortion. and police raids. For others, it is the This present trial was originally begun in 1979 but was suspended after massive mobilisations in favour of amnesty for the eleven and for the right Now there is a right wing offensive in Spain attacking living standards, civil liberties, national rights and women's rights. Divorce in Spain is still impossi ble and a new law at present going through parliament is being weakened with every amendment Despite the present reactionary

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