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...Cabañas and the fertile strip of northern Cuscatlán (see map). Though command of the villages seesaws between rebel and government forces, the guerrillas have held on to about 50 towns. For the first time in the four-year civil war, the forces of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), an umbrella organization for five guerrilla groups, are consolidating their power in towns, not just isolated hamlets...
They descended to a "heroes' welcome" that was everything public ceremonies in Cuba usually are not: brief, somber and quiet. An artillery corps band belted out a few revolutionary hymns, and women militia members goose-stepped across the tarmac of Jose Marti Airport. But President Fidel Castro, attired in tailored green fatigues, his beard noticeably gray, said not a word in public. He simply shook hands with the wounded, who apparently had been told to say nothing; several seemed too dazed to speak in any case, and one barely conscious man on a stretcher failed to recognize the Cuban...
...more than a year, U.S. advisers fretted about the army's "9-to-5 war," in which Salvadoran officers took their units on fruitless guerrilla chases during the day, then returned to their garrisons at night, leaving the Salvadoran countryside to the rebels of the Faraibundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.). As a result, the guerrillas have held the initiative in the war, using hit-and-run strikes, mobility and economic sabotage to wear down the battered country...
Fortunately for the U.S., the leftist guerrillas in El Salvador, known as the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), are also in disarray following an internal dispute that left two of their leaders dead. But they still dominate almost half of the countryside. Since the conflict began in 1979, they have disrupted the Salvadoran economy by inflicting up to $600 million in damages to farms, factories and utilities...
...proposal this week. Rejection of the measure would be a major blow to U.S. policy in El Salvador. According to the Administration's own gloomy forecast, the Salvadoran government is in danger of losing its war against some 6,000 guerrillas of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) unless the Salvadoran army receives more money, arms and advisers...