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...really. The latest bout of congressional querulousness was partly inspired by disappointing news from the Salvadoran battlefront. In the town of Suchitoto (pop. about 11,000), 27 miles from the capital of San Salvador, hundreds of guerrilla members of the Faribundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) last week were continuing a prolonged attack against a garrison of 150 to 200 national guardsmen and police. All access roads to the town were cut off. Within the besieged area, food, medicines and potable water were growing scarce, and civilian refugees could escape from the fighting only by rowboat across a nearby reservoir...
...self-appointed death squads. One day last week a right-wing hit squad walked into a San Salvador restaurant at breakfast time and gunned down three young men. Another day, it was the left's turn. Members of the Ejército Popular de Liberación Faribundo Martí, the most active guerrilla group, executed 17 former members of the notorious paramilitary organization ORDEN in the village of San Francisco Morazán. Said a San Salvador journalist: "If you are not on the leftists' death list, you are surely on the rightists' list. There...
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