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to budge; he called for the resignation of the powerful Defence Minister General Garcia, whose awn grisly record previous years has been more skillfully camouflaged recentiy, to make him appear a relative 'moderate' in the event Ochoa finally agreed to leave his post _ in exchange not for virtual isolation in Uruguay but a course at military college in Washington.

But the extent of his support confirms that there will be no substantial shift In the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, å meeting of the coordinating bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement has voted to denounce the US for:

"financing cf undercover operations; the use of US territory and that of Nicaragua's neighbours for training counter-revolutionary forces; and the violation of Nicaragua's air space and territorial waters by US planes and ships - all of which has resulted in terrorist actions aimed at overthrowing the revolutionary government.

. A pre-meeting of several Latin American countries held in the Panamanian island of Contadora had gone further and called for an end to all foreign intervention in Central America.

Yet though such declarations reflect to a certain degree the growing hostility of the masses of Latin America to the interventions of US imperialism, they also - like the Non-Aligned Movement itself -conceal the reactionary role played by the governments which participate.

Among the signatories of the Contadora declaration was the Argentine junta -which until at least last summer maintained its own squad of troops in EI Salvador assisting the US war effort by training the forces of the Salvadorian regime

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Socialist Organis no. 116, 20 January 1982. pege?