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...startling twelve-point proposal was conveyed first to Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas of San Salvador, who passed it on to the government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. After nine years of refusing to lay down their arms, the guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front last week declared their willingness to participate in El Salvador's presidential balloting and abide by the results, win or lose. The F.M.L.N. asked that the March 19 polling be postponed until Sept. 15 so the rebels would have more time to rally supporters. The group, which tried to sabotage the last five national...
...neatly typed letter to Mayor Marta Gomez de Melendez opened with a cordial greeting. But there was no mistaking it for fan mail. The message from the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) informed the mayor of Cojutepeque that she was obstructing El Salvador's revolution and gave her a choice: resign within 72 hours or face "popular justice." Gomez, a normally outspoken member of the right-wing ARENA party, knew exactly what * the last phrase meant. In the past year, eight mayors who ignored similar F.M.L.N. invitations to quit had been "executed," as the rebels call their...
Both sides in the country's eight-year civil war are already jockeying for advantage. The leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front is believed to be preparing its first major push since 1983. Although in the past the war was fought largely in the countryside, San Salvador is likely to be a major target for any new rebel operation. Intelligence reports say a shipment of guns was recently smuggled into the capital. Last week guerrillas ambushed an air force truck in the city, killing one civilian and wounding three soldiers...
Cristiani has also called for the 56,000-strong military to have a freer hand in defeating the guerrillas of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, who currently number about 6,000. Some Salvadorans fear such a strategy would mean ignoring a sizable increase in death-squad activities and other human-rights abuses. ARENA Founder Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former army major who ran against Duarte in the 1984 elections and has since yielded his party's leadership to Cristiani, has been linked by U.S. intelligence to the killer squads that ran amuck in the early 1980s...
...Cambridge Police officers, who were responding to a complaint about noise from a party, arrested Marti in Adams House early on April 10 after an argument that ended in a scuffle. While city police rarely enter Harvard-owned buildings, the patrolmen apparently thought they were in a private social club...