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...were hurt, but some envoys had close calls. On Thursday a chartered jet evacuated 234 civilian workers and dependents of U.S. officials. "The Bush Administration keeps saying that we are acting out of desperation, that the offensive will end soon," says an F.M.L.N. officer. "But the actions of the last few days will be a permanent feature as long as there is war in El Salvador...
...missiles, found in the wreckage of a twin-engine Cessna that had crashed some 70 miles east of San Salvador. The plane almost certainly took off from Nicaragua, bolstering Cristiani's conviction that Ortega's Sandinista government was supplying arms to the F.M.L.N. despite a personal promise to Cristiani last August not to do so. Cristiani suspended diplomatic relations with Nicaragua and refused to attend a summit of Central American Presidents scheduled for this weekend unless it was moved from Managua...
...rebels were not known to have the heat-seeking SA-7s until they fired one at a Salvadoran jet last week. The shoulder-held SA-7 is a Soviet-designed cousin of the more advanced U.S. Stinger rocket that significantly boosted the power of the mujahedin in the Afghan war. "These missiles could really make a difference," says a key U.S. Senate staffer. The insurgents offered to sheathe the weapon if the air force stopped bombing and strafing ground targets, but Cristiani is unlikely to accept the deal...
...Ortega and Castro are rushing to help the F.M.L.N. before Gorbachev pressures them to cut off the rebels as part of his larger rapprochement with Washington. Foreign diplomats, confirming a report in the French daily Le Monde, said that a Soviet emissary told Sandinista and Cuban officials in Managua last week to stop arming the F.M.L.N. Salvadoran diplomats closed their Managua embassy on Wednesday and left the country in protest over the SA-7 shipments. But they stressed that relations were being suspended, not terminated. Ortega pointedly did not suspend his government's ties with San Salvador. The flap between...
Already the government is betraying distressingly fascist leanings. Strict, vaguely worded laws curbing dissent were rammed through the legislature last week. Death squads are on the rise; evidence collected by human-rights groups strongly implicates the army in the killing of six Jesuit priests three weeks ago. Predictably, the criminal investigation of the Jesuits' slaying -- in contrast to the official probe of the SA-7s' origin -- has got nowhere...