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...villagers recount it, the town's 200 or so inhabitants were preparing to observe the holiday quietly when seven planes of the Salvadoran air force swooped in low, dropping several bombs and strafing the area with machine-gun fire. "That was President [José Napole??n] Duarte's Christmas present to us," remarked María Cruz Amaya, who says she spent most of the day hiding in the brush. As it happened, no one was hurt in the raid. Indeed, Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Adolfo Blandón later denied to TIME that there had been any recent air attack...
...however, declare that the U.S. wholeheartedly backed President José Napole??n Duarte's recent offer to meet with Salvadoran rebels if the Sandinista government in Nicaragua would in turn hold talks with the contras. If that should happen, declared Habib, the Reagan Administration would be prepared to resume bilateral discussions with the Sandinistas. CHINA Chasing Bad Characters...
Meanwhile, Salvadoran President José Napole??n Duarte has offered to conduct parallel negotiations with the leftists he is fighting, as part of a broader settlement whereby the Sandinistas would negotiate with the contras to end the civil war. The contra leaders have endorsed the Contadora and the Duarte initiatives, and Reagan reiterated his own support for both when appointing veteran Troubleshooter Philip Habib as his special envoy for Central America two weeks...
...seemed highly unlikely that the American adventurers could have obtained the help of El Salvador, the beneficiary this year of about $500 million in federal aid, without the knowledge and consent of U.S. officials. Salvadoran President José Napole??n Duarte formally denied that the plane had taken off from San Salvador. But it has long been an open secret that the Salvadoran air base at Ilopango is a major supply point for the contras...
...Salvador's President José Napole??n Duarte declared a state of emergency and issued an appeal for unity. "We'll come out of this, with the efforts and courage of all Salvadorans," Duarte said in a radio address. The magnitude of the disaster produced a rare show of solidarity in a nation torn by a seven-year civil war. In an extraordinary communiqué, the rebel guerrilla force, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, declared a temporary cease-fire...