Word: morazan
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...conclusions. Though readers of the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal had a chance to read in midsummer about the dubious value of the White Paper, most of America was left to assume that our military advisers were standing up to the Kremlin in the mountain jungles of Morazan and Chalatenango...
...days at a time. When superior government forces arrive, the guerrillas fade away. When the army units move on, the guerrillas are apt to return shortly thereafter. In Chalatenango department, such hit-and-run tactics have forced army troops to stay close to their barracks. In Morazan department, the insurgents control most of the countryside. Last week TIME Correspondent James Willwerth traveled to Morazan, 100 miles from San Salvador, to assess the latest fighting. His report...
...month. Then the guerrillas slipped away in the dark, avoiding a fight. Early last week guerrilla ground fire for the first time forced down a U.S.-made Huey helicopter carrying troops over the battle area. A Salvadoran Green Beret commander, who is in charge of all army operations in Morazan, admits that the guerrillas set up operations on major roadways until his troops are sent to chase them away...
...commander of a 300-man guerrilla contingent of the Forces of Popular Liberation: "The offensive has. many stages. It may take three or four more months." The guerrillas, in fact, were still in control of scattered patches of countryside and some villages in the northern provinces of Chalatenango and Morazan. Sporadic fighting continued...
...insurrection in the garrison of Santa Ana, the country's second largest city; an army captain and 80 soldiers defected to the guerrillas. Heavy fighting continued for days, as leftist troops penetrated several provincial cities before being thrown back. They seized San Francisco Gotera, the capital of eastern Morazan department, and it took government troops three days to break the cordon around the city and recapture...