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...trip had included two other stops, one in New Haven, where they joined in a prayer service in support of a man facing criminal charges in connection with a protest against Trident submarines, the other in Washington, D.C., where they participated in an evening of prayer and music for Salvadoran refugees. "Radical peacemaking," the monks believe, is a natural outgrowth of the Gospel...
When a reported 70% of Salvadoran voters defied death threats from guerrilla forces to participate in national elections last March, the U.S. and the leaders of El Salvador's major parties interpreted the turnout as a stinging repudiation of the left-wing insurgency. While the rebels fell back to ponder the fate of their crusade, the Salvadoran high command exhorted them to lay down their arms and "join the fight the people want, the struggle for peace." But the unspoken truce did not last long. After a two-month lull in the fighting, the guerrillas launched an offensive...
...five different guerrilla groups, has replenished its arms supplies and has returned to the battlefront more organized and determined than ever. The front has apparently patched over the internal quarrels that prevented it from seriously disrupting the March elections. Moreover, the guerrillas have been able to neutralize the Salvadoran army's best combat units through more sophisticated assault strategies. "Before, only one faction of the left could attack at once," said a U.S. official. "Now there is more planning and attack by several units...
Also disconcerting to the U.S. was the weak performance of Salvadoran infantrymen who had just returned from 14 weeks of training by U.S. 82nd Airborne Division instructors at Fort Bragg, N.C. Many of those troops were pinned down by the rebels in Morazan until the Dragonfly jets forced the guerrillas to abandon their positions. U.S. military advisers in El Salvador have been trying to persuade army troops to move in five-man patrols as they comb the countryside. Instead, the Salvadorans travel in vulnerable column formations along main roads. Says a frustrated U.S. aide in San Salvador...
...Americans are also distressed by the strategic planning in the Salvadoran high command. U.S. advisers stress that army troops should concentrate on making secure such vital zones as the cotton farms and cattle ranches of Usulutan, the western pasture lands and the capital itself. The Americans also insist that the army should make every effort to consolidate control of the nation's highways, where guerrillas have robbed motorists and burned some 80 vehicles in the past two weeks. Instead, the Defense Minister, General Jose Guillermo Garcia, decided to commit crack regiments to chase after guerrillas in Morazan...