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AAlssoulian, Monday, June 13, 19833 Weinberger faults adviser limit Official expects no U.S. troops to go to Central America SOUTHQATE (WALX. The Hart-Albin Gift By JOAN MOWER Associated Press Western Luggage Carrying Cases For Your Cowboy's Boots! $zki v'jaEV. now trying to balance out," he said. On weapons control, Weinberger said he thinks the Soviets have been trying to block the deployment of any of intermediate-range weapons.

He added. "If they see we are going ahead with that deployment, they may become very much more serious than they have been in the past about negotiations." Deployment of cruise and Pershing 2 missiles in Europe is scheduled to take place later this year unless a weapons agreement is reached. He said the situation in Lebanon has improved, but he did not have any information suggesting a breakthrough in the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon. Israel has signed an agreement with Lebanon to remove its troops, if Syria will do the same. Syria has refused to sign such an agreement.

dor may be too inflexible. But he described the limit as "workable enough." "Any rigid limit has got great disadvantages because the needs fluctuate as far as training is concerned," he said. "You may have a situation in which it would be very desirable to have 60 people down there training for two weeks, and then you go back to 40. "From time to time it would be desirable to have more. But, if the El Salvadoran government has now decided, as they seem to have, to do more of their training in Honduras then I think the limit that is there is workable enough." Weinberger said the United States has an interest in making sure that Central America does not become a "nest of communist or Marxist-led organizations that make the defense of the continental United States more difficult." But, asked if the United States is building up a military presence in Central America like that in Vietnam in the 1960s, Weinberger said nothing points to "a steadily or an inexorably Increasing American participation." The United States has been assisting the Salvadoran regime in its fight against leftist guerrillas.

On a related matter, Weinberger said the Soviets have been shipping "improved, more modern combat aircraft than they have had in some previous years" to Cuba. "Some of these could be considered to be nuclear-capable," Weinberger said of the aircraft. "But, whether they are actually or not, we aren't prepared to say at this time." On other issues, Weinberger said any congressional cuts in the Defense Department's budget could hurt the United States' effort to catch up with the Soviet Union's military power. Because the Soviets dramatically increased their defense spending in the 1960s and 1970s, they "secured a lead in a number of important areas that we are WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said Sunday that he foresees no situation in which American troops would be sent to Central America. But, he added, the limit on U.S.

advisers in El Salvador may be too rigid. Speaking on the CBS television program "Face the Nation," Weinberger was asked whether the Pentagon has a contingency plan in the event that Central America is overrun with communist or Soviet-backed troops. "We do not see any contingency in which American troops would be used or needed in Central America," he replied. He said the United States' aim is to enable governments like that of El Salvador to defend themselves. "That's the basis of our policy," he said.

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And, although the United States has no direct role in its talks, some of the participating countries listen closely to Washington when formulating foreign policy. While serving as a lobbyist for the Guatemalan government, Stone had worked to promote negotiations between Guatemala and Britain over Belize, which Guatemala claims. Another of his tasks was to improve the country's relations with the United States, which severed military aid to Guatemala ir 1977 because of its poor human-rights record. Stone quit the job in March, 1982, when Rios Montt was installed in a military coup that toppled the rightist government of Gen. Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia.

GUATEMALA CITY The Guatemalan government is making progress in its battle against leftist guerrillas, says U.S. envoy Richard Stone. Stone is winding up his "get-acquainted" tour of the Central American region. After leaving Guatemala, Stone spent several hours in Belize, called British Honduras until its independence in 1981, then stopped in Mexico. Stone, appointed by President Reagan to seek possibilities for peace in Central America, met in Guatemala City with Gen.

Efrain Rios Montt and other officials. He also has visited El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras and Nicaragua since starting the trip June 3. Stone told reporters that, during his visit to Guatemala, he had "learned about how the army has made progress in its struggle against insurgents who are fighting for an ideology which is foreign to the region." Four major leftist guerrilla groups, operating mostly out of the northwestern highlands, are fighting to topple the right-wing military government of Guatemala. In a statement read to reporters at the Silhouette II Reg. Sale Kicks Reg.

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