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...certainly not for a majority in the Assembly. That judgment was based on a feeling that Duarte's government somehow had run out of steam. Popular expectations were at a fever pitch last October, when the President held a historic first meeting with leaders of the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) and its political arm, the Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), to discuss ways of ending the war. A second meeting in November led nowhere. The chief reason: Duarte's government insists that the rebels lay down their arms as a first step toward rejoining the democratic process...
...court when three men in tennis clothes approached. One pulled out a pistol and shot Cienfuegos in the head, killing him instantly. Before fleeing, the killers draped their victim's body with the red-and-yellow flag of the Popular Liberation Forces (F.P.L.), a faction of the rebel Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Front...
...told the foreman. "The best we can do is give the guerrillas $2.50." After two more days of secretive telephone calls, a deal was finally struck. The grower would pay his laborers $3.63 per 100 lbs.; the workers would bring their own lunch. The guerrillas, members of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), would receive $500 for the entire harvest. In return, the grower would have the services of all the workers he needed for the lengthy harvest season, and coffee trucks would roll unmolested from his plantations to processing and storage mills...
...appeared at a time when El Salvador's National Assembly was setting minimum wages for coffee pickers of $3.62 per 100 lbs. of beans. The original guerrilla target was 40% higher, a fact widely touted in F.M.L.N. propaganda broadcasts over the clandestine radio stations Radio Venceremos and Radio Farabundo Marti...
Moments later a more elusive assemblage of five men and a woman slipped into town: fatigue-clad guerrillas of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) and shirt-sleeved civilian representatives of the guerrillas' political arm, the Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), the government's main adversaries in the Salvadoran conflict.* The rebel group followed Duarte's contingent inside the church, and the doors closed behind them. The two sides sat down at a plain wooden table beneath a crucifix and a quotation painted on the blue wall that admonished COME TO ME, THOSE...