Word: chalatenango
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...Chalatenango department, only 45 miles north of the capital, an estimated 1,000 guerrillas have been holding off a government force of equal size for more than a week in one of the biggest battles of the campaign. Dug into mountain caves and concrete bunkers, the guerrillas have clung to their positions despite infantry assaults, artillery barrages and air strikes...
...Said a commander of a 300-man guerrilla contingent of the Forces of Popular Liberation: "The offensive has. many stages. It may take three or four more months." The guerrillas, in fact, were still in control of scattered patches of countryside and some villages in the northern provinces of Chalatenango and Morazan. Sporadic fighting continued...
Soldiers wielding automatic rifles patrolled the dusty plaza outside as 14 priests celebrated a requiem Mass in the village church of Chalatenango, El Salvador. Local children, black-veiled peasant women and silver-haired men filled the pews alongside relatives of the deceased. Inside the coffins lay the bodies of two New York nuns, Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke. Along with another U.S. nun, Sister Dorothy Kazel, and a lay worker, Jean Donovan, they had been murdered by right-wing terrorists who regarded their relief activities among the poor as "Communist work...