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...crowded killing ground that is El Salvador, 10,000 people died by violence last year. That total seems certain to be surpassed in 1981. Last week leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) began their long-promised "final offensive" against the forces of the military-civilian junta: more than 800 people were killed...
...week in working-class districts of San Salvador, the capital. As guerrilla bands in the city staged hit-and-run attacks on police and military targets, they issued, over a captured classical music radio station, a tape-recorded appeal for a general strike and a popular insurrection against the junta...
...classical music lovers in San Salvador's barrios. The guerrilla attacks were beaten off by withering rifle fire and grenade attacks by the army. The government declared martial law and a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Less than 24 hours after the start of the offensive, Junta President José Napoleón Duarte called a press conference to deride the leftist efforts as "an absolute failure." Stores and businesses opened as usual the next day, and workers generally stayed on their jobs...
...Monitoring closely and moderating latent and open differences among members of governing Junta and the officers corps...
...governing Junta and the armed forces have failed to rally significant support for their reform and counter-insurgency programs...