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...then deposited heavily armed troops at key locations on the forbidding terrain. According to eyewitnesses, the elite Atlacatl Brigade, some 800 to 1,000 strong, landed near the village of Valladolid, Honduras, violating Honduran airspace and territory as local soldiers looked on impassively. The invaders' mission: to engage leftist Salvadoran guerrilla forces entrenched in pockets along the demilitarized border zone established after El Salvador's four-day war in 1969 with Honduras...
...first real test for Salvadoran forces trained by a 15-member team of U.S. military advisers sent to El Salvador last March. Armed with U.S.-made M-16 assault rifles and supported by mortars and grenade launchers, the troops fanned out in search of refugee camps that harbored leftist sympathizers, then turned their attention to guerrilla sanctuaries at Arcatao and Los Filos, just across the border in El Salvador...
...that the U.S. would welcome a greater voice in the government by business leaders. Last week they began lashing out at the Christian Democrats, who support Duarte. The right-wingers feel that liberal policies, like extensive land reform, are hurting the faltering economy and bungling the war with the leftist rebels...
...leaders are already looking for a candidate to run against Duarte. The man most frequently mentioned is René Fortin Magaña, 49, an attorney and former member of the short-lived "progressive" junta of 1960. That regime was replaced by a series of military governments before the leftist coup in 1979 led to the present junta...
...River in southern Lebanon, killing three people and wounding 20. Two days later the Israelis struck again, this time hitting a guerrilla base at Damur, ten miles south of Beirut, killing five and injuring 25. After another two-day interval, the Israelis attacked once more, damaging Palestinian and Lebanese leftist bases near the southern town of Nabatiyeh and at Jazzin and Basir in south central Lebanon. Ten were killed and 90 wounded. In a dogfight between Syrian and Israeli jets, the first such encounter in five months, a Syrian MiG was destroyed...