Americans will back winning effort — Haig
NZPA-Reuter Washington Americans will back the United States Government’s effort to support the Salvadorian Government if there is a commitment to win. according to the Secretary of State (Mr Alexander Haig). “Salvador is not Vietnam.” he told a group of staunch conservatives while the State Department briefed reporters on its proposal to give the central American country SUSI 66 million in security aid next year.
“The American people are not unwilling to support a sound effort to do whatever is right, ■ provided they believe we mean business and we are going to succeed,” Mr Haig told the conservative Political Action Conference. He complained of a “massive onslaught" in the news media in recent weeks to draw , parallels between American support for the Salvadorean Government in its war against guerrillas and the United States in-
volvement in Vietnam. Earlier, Senator Jesse Helms, a Republican, chairman of the Western Hemisphere sub-committee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the conference that the Reagan Admin-, istration should abandon its support for the El Salvadorean President (Mr Jose Napoleon Duarte) because he was a Leftist. He said the United States Government had made Mr Duarte "the only game in town.”
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Press, 1 March 1982, Page 8
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