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...Central American sources say that the rebels are actually planning two major attacks, the first in July to coincide with the Democratic National Convention and the second in October just before the election. In the summer offensive, the rebels hope to expand their control of the northern departments of Morazán and Chalatenango. As part of that effort, the guerrillas will aim a public relations campaign at the Democrats when they gather in San Francisco July...
...October offensive will attempt to make the war a major issue as the U.S. heads for the polls. According to the guerrillas, they will try to assassinate U.S. advisers based at San Miguel and La Unión. The rebels say they have trained a hit squad in Morazán department to infiltrate the Salvadoran army and kill key officers as well as their U.S. instructors. Another scenario calls for the insurgents to concentrate on two or three spectacular attacks that would get front-page headlines in the U.S. The guerrillas obviously have decided that last Sunday...
Front (F.M.L.N.). That was before the start of the winter offensive. In a four-day battle on the slopes of Cacahuatique mountain in the eastern department of Morazán late last month, government forces finally broke a rebel siege, but lost 40 men. U.S. military aides commended the army for responding so quickly to the guerrilla raid, but at least two support battalions broke and ran from entrenched positions...
...warned the country's Defense Minister, José Guillermo Garcia, to concentrate on defending economically vital Usulután, where they believe the Salvadoran conflict ultimately will be won or lost. Instead, Garcia had sent the cream of his 22,000-member army into the northeastern department of Morazán, a mountainous guerrilla stronghold that is both economically and militarily unimportant...
...served 14 months as a correspondent in Viet Nam, covering the Salvadoran insurgency has revived old and unwanted memories. "The countryside is strikingly similar to Viet Nam's," he says. "One afternoon, another reporter, also a Saigon press veteran, and I were sitting on a 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...