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Despite some improvement, the overall performance of El Salvador's army remains "checkered." So testified General Paul Gorman, head of the Panama-based U.S. Southern Command, in an appearance last week before a House subcommittee. Indeed, two days earlier, a dawn guerrilla raid on three villages west of San Salvador left 63 civil-defense guards and three civilians dead. Army reinforcements did not arrive until the afternoon, after the fighting had ended...
Then, on Thursday, four heavily armed men claiming to be members of a leftist guerrilla group attempted to rob a bank in Soyapango, a working-class suburb of San Salvador, killing a security guard and taking 73 hostages. Police surrounded the bank, while Red Cross officials negotiated with the rebels. After nearly 23 tense hours, the guerrillas surrendered. The episode alarmed Salvadoran authorities: until recently, the rebels had rarely launched an attack so close to the capital...
...Administration temporarily abandoned its effort to persuade Congress to continue funding for the CIA-backed contras, who are fighting the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Despite this, Gorman offered new evidence to support the Administration's contention that the Sandinista government is partly to blame for the guerrilla successes in El Salvador. During a closed session, he showed video tapes shot in June of what appeared to be Nicaraguan boats unloading weapons onto Salvadoran beaches...
...reputation in the bad old days of the Batista regime, a program of sexual austerity had a plausible, even uplifting, ring. It would satisfy the puritanical strain that attends much leftist thought even as it appealed to traditional Cuban ideas of machismo, nourished in Castroites by their years of guerrilla warfare. As Writer René Ariza says, there is "some Castro...
...time bomb ripped apart an oil pipeline in northern Angola on July 12, the former Portuguese colony's Marxist leaders felt the shock waves. The blast could not be dismissed as simply another act of sabotage by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the guerrilla group battling to set up a government of national unity. For the first time, UNITA had struck at Angola's oil industry, which accounts for 75% of the country's revenues, and had launched an attack hundreds of kilometers from its bush-fringed stronghold in southeastern Angola...