Members of the U.S. Special Forces ('Green Berets') are now in Honduras, which is ruled by a military dictatorship and borders on El Salvador.
The Green least of the Monouras-- Salvador Most more Salvadoran refugees in Honduras fled the Salvadoran junta's terror campaign, which as lakell more than were among the victims destroy operations carried out by the junta against villages that sympathise with the revolutionary forces in El Salvador.
In early August it became known that Washington had sent twenty-one 'military instructors' to Honduras.
Border Raymond Bonner of the New York Times spoke with one of these instructors - US Special Forces Captain Michael Sheehan at the Lar Virtud, Honduras, refugee camp near the Salvadoran border:
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"Thev said thev were Forces battalion based in Panama and that they and five other American soldiers from the same unit had been assigned to help the Honduran army patrol i neir primary objective, control the Salvadoran refugees streaming in to escape the upheaval in their coun try Captain Sheehan said that the (US) National Security. use of Special Forces units in Honduras in support multary Salvadoran guerrillas. A unit would soon be based in Lar Virtud. he said.' (New York Times, 9 August). Berets are stationed in at camps along the border than 40,000 20,000 lives. Many OT search-andAll wore unitorms and carried from a Special the border.
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