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WASHINGTON (AP) —
As President Reagan moves
warships into position ‘off '
hoth coasts’ of Central
_ America, U.S. officials are
. Planning stepped up ground

exercises in. the volatile

region.

In a “televised ‘news
conference tonight at. 8 p.m,
DT, Reagan is expected to~
focus on the. military ac-
livity-that presidential aide
lavid Gergen says has been
treated with “an awful lot of:
hype.” |

The session with repor-.

(ers will give Reagan “an
opportunity to put things in’
perspective,” said Gergen,

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manoeuvres in the regian
include sending - the bat-
\leship New Jereey to join
‘the growing U.S. Meet off.-
Nicaragua,’ a. decision
- Pentagon sources revealed
Monday. 7
. The ship movements are
‘tied to the administration's
‘opposition to. Nicaragua’s |
Sandinista government and
is “support for, the
Salvadoran |. government -
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“gurgents. ’

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the insurgents in’ El:
-Sulvador are being supplied
through Nicaragua. ;
: The battleship, which cut
short a Par Kastern cruise,
was said to be heading
across the Pacific to join the
Aircraft carrier Ranger and
Seven other vessels, which
tuok positions Monday off
Central Amerita's western:
doast.

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Garrier Coral Sea was:
geported ready to depart for
the ‘Caribbean Sea from
Ruples, Italy, to operate.
long Central America’s
gistern coast:

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fhlutine tines landing

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in ‘Honduras will be part of
joint exercises by US.
military: - forces in the
region. ,

As reports circulated that
‘the Pentagon was ron-
Sidering . doubling the
~ number of US. military
‘advisers in El Salvador,
__White House officials took
pains to stress that nd such
plan had: reached the
president. Reagan

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