On Mar. 31, Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch--Clinton's nominee to head the CIA--announced a sweeping investigation into the US military's activities in Guatemala from the early 1980s to the present and promised "to hold people accountable for their conduct" if wrongdoing is uncovered. The Defense Department's Guatemala Review Panel will be co-chaired by Pentagon General Counsel Judith Miller and newly appointed Inspector General Eleanor Hill; it will look into "every bit of information that we have on all Department of Defense activities," according to Deutch, including counter-narcotics operations. Cocaine transshipment through Guatemala is a serious problem, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and joint US/Guatemalan interdiction and eradication programs involve at least 200 Guatemalan Treasury Police, including air assault units. [WP 4/1/95]