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Recent visitors to the country report that rebels continue to control about 25 per cent of the nation. The Farabundo Marti Front for the National Liberation (FMLN) has not won much new territory in recent months; it has not, despite large-scale attacks employing U.S. firepower, lost any ground. Within the "liberated zones," some institutional structures--primary education, food distribution and medical care--have begun to emerge. Rebel intelligence is apparently effective; word of planned army incursions reaches the resistance leadership in time for entire villages to be moved...
American aid to the country continues; American officers--50 of them, about ten per cent of all officers in the Salvadoran military--continue to train troops, and many sources continue to contend that American Green Berets and special forces troops really run the show. Certainly, the counter-insurgency techniques resemble those used in Vietnam. The latest U.S. policy statements, in late summer, indicated support for Duarte's 1982 election plan, and opposition to negotiations with the rebels, the course so many European nations have advised. How valid elections can be held when public opponents of exploitation are routinely murdered...
July 13: The government unveils a drastic new economic recovery program that could boost living costs 55 per cent...
Although Harvard's overall enrollment has remained fairly constant over the last 20 year, the makeup of the student body has changed. In 1961 woman constituted fewer than 20 per cent of the undergraduate population, Eric W. Kurtz '57, director of the Office for Analytic Studies at Harvard, said yesterday, adding that women now make up more than 30 per cent of the student body...
...enrollment of ethnic minorities has also risen over the last 20 years. Harvard has kept detailed records of students ethnic background only since 1977, but in the last 15 years minority enrollment has risen from 3 per cent to 23 per cent, William R. Fitzsimmons '67, acting director of admissions, said recently...