Word: marti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...views of the Christian Democrats. One thing is certain: leaders of the Christian Democrats have had ties with the Revolutionary Democratic Front [F.D.R.] and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front [F.M.L.N.] [the political and military arms of the guerrilla movement]. I will provide proof at the beginning of next week. But we will invite those Christian Democrats who have the capacity to participate in a government of national conciliation to join...
...background while others argue their cause in public. For security reasons, they often do not even use their own names. Despite their current unity, they have resorted to murder to settle factional disputes in the past. The five guerrilla commanders who make up the general command of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) are the real powers behind the Salvadoran insurgency. If the guerrillas ever took power, these men would control El Salvador. The quintet...
...position of innocent Salvadoran civilians caught in a crossfire between the opposing forces is likely to get worse before it gets better. For one thing, the guerrillas are becoming more active. Last week the so-called Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front launched attacks on Salvadoran military positions in various parts of the country. In one raid, the government claimed that the guerrillas killed 400 civilians, in addition to twelve members of a local army outpost. But when journalists were taken to a mass grave of victims of the attack, they discovered that it was not big enough to hold more...
...attack was carefully timed and perfectly executed. Members of the Marxist-dominated Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front last week slipped under cover of darkness among the open hangars at El Salvador's heavily guarded Ilopango military airport. They placed explosive charges around some of the country's fleet of venerable fighter aircraft and 14 U.S.-built UH-1H "Huey" helicopters and then escaped undetected. At 1:30 a.m., the bombs went off and parts of the airport became an inferno...
Recent visitors to the country report that rebels continue to control about 25 per cent of the nation. The Farabundo Marti Front for the National Liberation (FMLN) has not won much new territory in recent months; it has not, despite large-scale attacks employing U.S. firepower, lost any ground. Within the "liberated zones," some institutional structures--primary education, food distribution and medical care--have begun to emerge. Rebel intelligence is apparently effective; word of planned army incursions reaches the resistance leadership in time for entire villages to be moved...