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After ten years of a bloody civil war that has claimed some 70,000 lives, there are no eternal optimists left in El Salvador. Blind hope went out of fashion after then President Jose Napoleon Duarte met with failure in three meetings with the leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. Since the last talks in 1987, the two sides have dug in with renewed determination. Now, four months after Alfredo Cristiani, 41, succeeded Duarte as President, there is new talk of reconciliation. Representatives of the government and the F.M.L.N. met two weeks ago in Mexico City...
Oscar Orellana Garcia, a representative of the human rights arm of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN)--which has fought a civil war in El Salvador throughout this decade--said U.S. support should be restricted to humanitarian aid and conditional upon the resolution of the country's political turmoil...
Little is heard in Cuba of the current changes in Soviet economics and culture, although some news trickles in from the American Radio Marti. Cuban human rights groups, as well as other Cuban citizens fascinated by the cult-like figure Gorbachev, have hailed the Soviet premier's visit with flag-wavings, cheers and motorcades. Gorbachev, it is hoped, will help guide a resistant Cuba into policies of economic "opening" and increased political freedoms...
...rivals for the country's presidency far behind by polling an outright majority, 54% of the estimated 1 million ballots cast. Cristiani's victory, however, was muted by a voter turnout of only about 50%. The high rate of abstentions translated in part to support for the boycotting Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the Marxist guerrilla force that has battled for power for the past nine years...
Their Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front had called for a boycott and launched widespread attacks to keep voters at home...