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...enter the Sabra camp late Friday afternoon, they were stopped at the checkpoint by Israeli soldiers, who told them that fighting was still going on inside the camp. Reported Suro: "We could hear the burst of automatic weapons fire and the explosion of grenades. It was clearly not a firefight because the volleys of gunfire were not being returned: the guns were being fired in only one direction." Israeli soldiers rested at the edge of the camp even as the firing continued. They did not appear concerned about snipers or any kind of attack from inside the camp. Obviously...
British naval guns pounded the area around Grytviken to clear a landing zone for helicopters, taking care, meanwhile, to avoid hitting Argentine troop concentrations in order to minimize casualties. When the Royal Marines, backed by a few army troops, finally came ashore, the initial firefight was reportedly brisk and brief. Within two hours after the landing, a white flag was hoisted by the Argentine commander at Grytviken, and a short while later the blue and white Argentine flag was hauled down. After securing Grytviken, the British were able to make radio contact with a second garrison of 16 Argentine soldiers...
...still the people came-by hundreds, thousands and hundreds of thousands-defying the guerrillas' threats and claims to their allegiance. Under a sweltering sun in the San Salvador suburb of Mejicanos, voters stood in a half-mile queue while a firefight raged six blocks away. When the action moved closer, the people dropped to the ground until it passed, keeping their places in line. In another northern suburb, San Antonio Abad, voters hid in their homes until the end of a skirmish that left twelve rebels and three soldiers dead. When the fighting stopped about...
...Department. They arrived to meet guerrilla contacts at 5 p.m. Ten minutes later, villagers heard prolonged shooting. Eight people died. The four Dutchmen were shot repeatedly at close range, and their bodies were quickly removed to the capital by Salvadoran soldiers. The army claimed that they died in a firefight, but most reporters suspected that instead the Dutchmen were followed by the army to the rebels, then murdered. A week before their deaths the four Dutchmen had been called in for five hours of questioning by the Hacienda, or treasury, police because the name of one of them, Jacobus Andries...
...demands on the press in El Salvador are especially trying because coverage of events may be more important than the events themselves. Mistaking a firefight for a massacre, for example, could have an incalculable effect on American policy-and, given the importance of U.S. aid, on the eventual outcome in El Salvador. This responsibility weighs heavily on many correspondents. Shirley Christian of the Miami Herald, who won a Pulitzer Prize last year for her coverage of Latin America, has become even more influential among her peers since she published an article in the Washington Journalism Review detailing the failure...