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...dawn broke the next day, the guerrillas returned with a vengeance. Some 500 members of the People's Revolutionary Army, a branch of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), descended on Berlin. Raking the town with automatic-weapons fire and rocket-propelled grenades, they devastated the puny garrison, killing or wounding four policemen and capturing or driving away the rest. The guerrillas sacked and burned Berlin's pharmacies and dry-goods stores, robbed the only local bank of $160,000, and rocketed the town's postal and telex offices. Local residents were herded into...
...troubling obstacle to U.S. aims in the embattled Central American nation: a lack of discipline on the part of the Salvadoran military. All too often, its leaders seem to be more concerned with internal rivalries than with fighting left-wing guerrillas united under the banner of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front...
...bodyguards in the venerable Mexico City Foreign Correspondents Club, Guillermo Manuel Ungo, 51, president of El Salvador's Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), a leftist political alliance that boycotted last March's elections, faced an overflow audience. Alongside was Ana Guadalupe Martínez, a representative of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the Marxist-led organization that unites the country's five guerrilla factions. Ungo and Martínez announced that their groups had offered to begin unconditional direct negotiations with the Salvadoran government to end the country's three-year civil...
Over 30,000 people have died in El Salvador since 1979, when leftist guerillas, industrial workers and peasant farmers began a battle against a U.S.-backed junta that overthrew one military government and installed another. The chief antagonists in the war are the government's security forces and the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN), a coalition of five rebel groups which is named for a Salvadoran populist leader...
...resurgence in fighting suggests that the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), the umbrella organization that links El Salvador's five different guerrilla groups, has replenished its arms supplies and has returned to the battlefront more organized and determined than ever. The front has apparently patched over the internal quarrels that prevented it from seriously disrupting the March elections. Moreover, the guerrillas have been able to neutralize the Salvadoran army's best combat units through more sophisticated assault strategies. "Before, only one faction of the left could attack at once," said a U.S. official. "Now there is more...