Cuba and Nicaragua. The rebels have inflicted some $2 billion in damage, nearly canceling out the $3.3 bil-lion in aid (not counting covert grants) provided Washington during the 1980s. Captured rebel documents show that the FMLN is bent on military victory. It re-gards participation in peace talks only as war by other means.
U.S.-provided arms and aerial gunships have helped the army force the guerrillas to operate in groups of five to 20 men, rather than company- and battalion-size units, but...