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...Morazdn, only about ten miles from the Honduran border. Defended by the Salvadoran security forces, Osicala was briefly seized by the insurgents last May, and has suffered three major assaults since; sporadic fighting is an almost daily occurrence. The report of TIME's Caribbean bureau chief, William McWhirter...
...porch in northern Morazán province, looking out over a garden filled with tropical flowers. Just then a U.S.-made 'Huey' helicopter flapped overhead. We looked at each other, startled. Both of us had flashed back ten years to Viet Nam." Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter, on his third extended reporting trip to El Salvador last week, also compares his experiences with Viet Nam. "In some ways," he says, "the risks here are greater, but that is because there are still chances to see and report on both sides in this conflict." Longtime Caribbean Correspondent Bernard Diederich...
...army's resources were too strained to do more than lay down lines of defending fire and call in strafing attacks along the roadside until the guerrillas finally dispersed into the dense surrounding hillside 24 hours later. The army did not pursue them, reports TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter. Next day, openly cynical townspeople defiantly drove past the army checkpoints in pickup trucks straining with market goods and in crowded passenger buses sagging on their axles. "The soldiers don't dare come up the road," said one of the passengers as they headed toward a highway where los muchachos?...
Laura Lopez/Managua and William McWhirter/ San Salvador
...coalition formed by the Christian Democrats, the nation's major moderate party, whose candidate is Attorney Alejandro Maldonado. More than 200 Christian Democratic Party members have been murdered since 1980, mostly by right-wing death squads. The leftists have no candidate. TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter accompanied the moderates for a day on their unusual-and frightening-campaign trail. His report...