the people of Guatemala are the increasingly powerful organisations, who were barred from the election.
They have fused to form a joint command 'front of patriotic unity'.
During the elections they attacked military installations and erected road blocks within ten miles of the capital, Guatemala City. advance, the Lucas Garcia engages in WEOICSAC DULCICY villagers as its situation becomes more hopeless.
Just as in Guatemala, the election in a Salvador takes place against a background of increasing advances Healey has dewounced the elections as the left-wing guerrillas. a 'sordid farce' register and with no possibility of the left-wing parties standing candidates In the war last week both the Us and the Duarte regime got a nasty SHOCK. heir stand-up pitched battle with the guerTo. They sent their helicoper around the volcano.
RDF when it lands.' (Emphasis added.)
Crucial to the Pentagon's drive to improve ability the building programme for the US Navy. Some $88bn of the 1983 budget (up from $41.7bn in 1979) is earmarked for the Navy, to expand it from about 475 ships at present to more than 600 by the end of the decade. some $96bn is to be spent on a five-year ship-building programme.
The Navy plans to build two addigroups nuclear aircraft carriers, at a cost of number of carrier battle groups in the group, Us fleet to titteen Additional battle groups will also be built around two World War battleships, to be recommissioned at a As Secretary of the Navy John Lehman explains, organised around 15 carrier could deal 'simultaneously with conricts in ine rar cast, Near cast, rer. sian Gulf, Indian Ocean, lifelines around Africa to the United States and Europe, the Eastern Pacific' 7 February).
When plans to battleships USS Iowa and USS New Jersey were first announced a year ago, Richard Halloran reportea in the New York Times that Corps is particularly eager them back to provide bombardment for amphibious assaults.
Iavy secretar Lehman
Jointed out that the reactivated batleships would be 'fighting within the narrow confines of the Persian Gulf"
Both battleships have been used in past interventions mile semicolonlal guerrilla Eventually withdrew, through the national withdrew to find them.
While the guerrillas of sanction Denis ment Doov without an electoral the observers' visit.
The future heroic men and fought its tirst American-backed GuazaDa War, intervene shiplong-range guns.
The All told, in spending for the boost around new bringing.
emphasis. ine Hume, Armed 600-ship fleet could knock the O1l Mediterra(Washington Post, refurbish the curacy needed military targets.
'the Marine missile tubes.
to nave land, ships, also alr olalics.
well suited detect by (Wall Street change direction treetop level. gunships against the FMLN for three days, and they were continually hit by groundtire and beaten back.
the guerrillas slipping away night army lines. As they their marching columns could be heard singing revolutionary songs, but the army were still unable As a guerrilla leader 'Frederico' told American journalists: 'We can move anywhere. We are not going to fight a war of positions. There are too many targets of opportunity.
Britain is sending two 'observers' the phoney ReaganDuarte elections. Every labour moveshould demand dissociation from America's policy in El Salvador and the cancellation of of El Salvador and Guatemala will be decided by the women who are fighting arms in hand against dictators, not by the fairy tale world of the dictators' * auns not butter world. The lowa and New Jersey were brought out of storage for the Korean and the New Jersey was again reactivated for the Vietnam War, ing wnich it sat oft the North Viet namese coast, out of range of coastal •allenes. are bouncco away will 1s battleships are now to be refitted with up to 320 Cruise missiles, with a range of 1,500 miles.
In addition to the sharp increases RDF and the US Navy, Reagan's 1983 arms budget will spending on nuclear weapons and delivery systems by almost $7br from the current fiscal year. Four weapons systems are receiving special missile will 'give the United States the ability, for the first to threaten all of the Soviel Union's land-based missiles, the 1l August 1980 New York limes noted.
ten independently targeted nuclear warheads, and with a range of over 6,000 miles, the MX out the most strongly reinforced Soviet missile silos.
The submarine-launched Trident Il missile, employing a new and extremely accurate guidance system and with a range of up to 7,500 miles, is the first sea-based missile with the acto destroy small The Pentagon plans to deploy 13 Ohio-class nuclear submarines, each containing 24 Trident A third new weapons system, the Cruise missile, can be launched from submarines and It is so small and flies low that it is virtually impossible to radar. In addition, once launched le cre can cocky avoid obstacles while skimming along barely above It is extremely cheap as such missiles.
A fourth system, the Pershing II, is a highly accurate land-based missile carrying cluster of NATO plans to deploy 572 US Cruise and Pershing Europe in 1983. From bases in West Germany, the Pershing II could reach Soviet minutes, compared to thirty or more minutes for a missile launched from the US.
The Pentagon is also going ahead with a new nuclear bomber, the B-1 and working oh the bomber, so called because it would be invisible to Soviet radar.
Why are US policymakers pushing ahead with these first-strike weapons? Not to launch a nuclear war against the USSR. They know that would be But weapons have a very which is directly tied to the im DOSC. mediate plans of US rulers for Central America, the Caribbean, The Pentagon whelming nuclear club to be used to prevent the Soviets from coming to the aid of any victim of a US intervention.
But Reagan's policies face strong opposition both in the United States and around the world. In Europe a massive movement has against NATO's plan to deploy ruise and Pershing II Western European Whether that decision can be plemented is now an open question In the United States, too, there is tremendous volvement in EP Salivac I Salvador, that the "Vietnam syndrome' is far from dead. • Taken Press, 8 March, 1982.
Cruise warheads.
Il missiles in Western little doomsday practical purand other walls over. superiority as missiles on soil next year.
imUS to Inshowing Intercontinental Nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise DEMONSTRATION SUNDAY 28 MARCH HYDE PARK LONDON must be able to send US troops to intervene directly. world-wide economic and The defeat in Vietnam and the collapse of imperialism's relays in places like Iran have forced the US to boost its own military spending to the point of breaking the economy. But to defenc political domination, they Socialist Challenge 18 March 1982