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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MARCH 5, 1982
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ON THE WORLD SCENE (SPECIAL REPORT, CONCLUSION)
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MORALITY CONNECTION
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--PART II Almost daily, pressure builds for the
United States to do something more concrete about deteriorating conditions
in El Salvador and elsewhere in Central America. At the same time counter
pressure builds from the political left (such as Screen Actor's Guild
President Ed Asner) to prevent further U.S. military measures.
On March 2, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr. told the House Foreign
Affairs Committee that there is undeniable evidence that the insurgency in
that nation is not entirely home-grown but is directed from "command and
control" centers outside the country� that the Moscow-inspired subversion
endangers the "vital strategic interests" of the United States. (Separate
ly, C.I.A. Director William J. Casey, in an interview in U.S. NEWS & WORLD
REPORT, charged that "this whole insurgency is run out of Managua
[Nicaragua's capital] by•••Cubans, Soviets, Bulgarians, East Germans, North
Koreans, North Vietnamese and representatives of the Palestine Liberation
Organization.")
The following day, Secretary Haig explored the whole range of Central
American problems in a 90-minute breakfast session with members of the
Washington bureau of the LOS ANGELES TIMES. The Central American crisis,
Haig told the TIMES, could pose "a very fundamental threat" to the security
of Mexico "in the very predictable future," but that political constraints
make it difficult for Mexico's leaders to respond. He added that it is only
"a matter of weeks or months
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before Guatemala begins to undergo a crisis
comparable to that in El Salvador today, with even greater potential for
.damaging U.S. interests.
"It's not a question of one black chip (domino) knocking over another,"
Haig said of the rapidly escalating erisis, "but it is a clear, self
influencing sequence of events which could sweep all of Central America
into a Cuba-dominated region.n That would "put a very fundamental threat
on Mexico in the very predictable future,
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he said.
A guerrilla threat to Mexico from the direction of Guatemala and El
Salvador could be particularly dangerous because Mexico's vast oil fields
lie in its southern region, near those two countries. And uninterrupted
oil sales are vital to the economic growth on which Mexico has pinned its
hopes for alleviating widespread poverty.
(In the face of declining oil
revenues the Mexican government has sharply devalued the peso and imposed
sweeping price controls--steps that have helped Mexico's financial struc
ture but have fallen heavily on much of the population.)
Mr. Haig did not elaborate on Mexico's internal political problems. But
U.S. officials are known to believe that a combination of historical anti-