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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...
...fact that the struggle will be much tougher than previously imagined was brutally underlined last month. For the first time, units of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front captured a small Salvadoran National Guard garrison, that of the isolated northeastern town of Perquin (pop. 3,700). The guerrillas held the town for seven days; all the while their clandestine radio station, Radio Venceremos, spread news of the feat across the country. The insurgents finally retreated after the Salvadoran army moved reinforcements into the area and bombed the town. According to guerrilla accounts, their casualties were light-only one killed-while...
...countryside, the "final offensive" launched by the guerrillas' Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front has been halted by repeated military onslaughts. One F.M.L.N. leader, Communist Party Secretary-General Jorge Shafik Handel, admitted last week to a "temporary tactical retreat." The offensive has not been defeated, however...
...sometimes unlikely group, as varied in its personalities and ideologies as the alphabet soup of its political parties, grass-roots organizations and guerrilla armies. It is only within the past year that the leftists have tried to overcome their old antagonisms and unite under the umbrella of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) for a "final offensive" toward their common objective: the overthrow of the civilian-military junta and the installation of a revolutionary regime...
...tiny, crowded killing ground that is El Salvador, 10,000 people died by violence last year. That total seems certain to be surpassed in 1981. Last week leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) began their long-promised "final offensive" against the forces of the military-civilian junta: more than 800 people were killed...