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...midst of the Perquin assault, the guerrillas launched dozens of pinprick attacks throughout the surrounding Morazán department. The deliberate hit-and-run tactics made it difficult for the army to bring up reinforcements, thus prolonging the insurgents' hold on Perquin. More seriously, they have been carrying out a carefully planned campaign of sabotage against bridges and the power system. Up to 75% of the country has been without electricity at one time or another; the eastern third of El Salvador has been almost completely darkened since mid-July. Last week, as Defense Minister José Guillermo Garcia...
...buses, sleeping on the ground, talking endlessly with the peasants he hoped to redeem. He had planned to spend two months in the countryside, but he abandoned his journey after only eleven days when he and some companions found themselves facing a large army column in guerrilla-dominated Morazán province. A few days later, tired and dirty, Bourgeois walked into the U.S. embassy in San Salvador...
...gunned down three young men. Another day, it was the left's turn. Members of the Ejército Popular de Liberación Faribundo Martí, the most active guerrilla group, executed 17 former members of the notorious paramilitary organization ORDEN in the village of San Francisco Morazán. Said a San Salvador journalist: "If you are not on the leftists' death list, you are surely on the rightists' list. There is no middle ground in this country...
...post office every day to get his mail. He also walked to work. Coming out of his two-story stucco house on the capital's north side one day last week, he struck out as usual past the corner grocery and crossed the Parque Morazán toward the palace. In the park, a fat waiter passed him. "Buenos dias, Don Otilio," said the waiter. The President of Costa Rica tipped...
Keeper of the Dream. The invitations to consider unification were issued through Salvador Mendieta, rector (until his resignation last week) of Central University at Managua, Nicaragua. For 40 years septuagenarian Mendieta has kept Morazán's dream alive in the minds of students. Back of Mendieta was the sponsorship of Nicaragua's dictatorlet, genial President General Anastasio Somoza...