§ Lord Chitnisasked Her Majesty's Government:
What evidence they have that Honduras "has increasingly become a channel for the supply of Soviet bloc arms to the guerrillas in El Salvador" as stated in their background brief Crisis in Central America.
§ Baroness YoungThere has been a succession of reports to this effect, including an article in theInternational Herald Tribune of 3rd August and, more recently, an article in the Economist of 29th October which indicated that arms were reaching El Salvador from Cuba through Honduras.