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Then, just as suddenly as it had begun, the engagement ended last week. The army's target simply melted away. Salvadoran troops said that in the night they had heard the taunting sound of the guerrillas singing as they filtered in small groups through the army lines and into the surrounding countryside. The army claimed that it had killed more than 120 guerrillas and suffered fewer than 75 casualties; the guerrillas claimed 250 army casualties and did not reveal those of the rebels...
...their growing threat to take over the tiny country, which is roughly the size of Massachusetts. The blunt assessment of one U.S. State Department official: "The military situation today in El Salvador is not as good as it was two months ago." American military analysts believe that the Salvadoran armed forces are only "marginally" able to hold their own against the rebels. Reasons: a lack of tactical training, and declining morale...
...deadline for El Salvador's critical constituent assembly elections draws nearer. The U.S. considers the elections, which will create an assembly to write a new constitution before the presidential elections planned for 1983, to be a crucial step toward establishing full civilian democracy in the country. The Salvadoran left is boycotting the process, and the guerrilla groups hope to disrupt the balloting, with the aim of making the election meaningless. Spray-paint signs in the guerrilla colors of black and red warn Salvadorans that "whoever votes will be killed." Last week José Rodriguez Ruiz, a leader...
Late last week Haig told a congressional committee that Salvadoran troops had captured a "Nicaraguan military man" who was advising local rebels. Officials in the Salvadoran security forces charged that the man, Ligdamis Anaxis Gutierrez Espinoza, had been trained in terrorist techniques in Mexico. He managed to escape from the Salvadoran authorities, they said, and reach sanctuary in the Mexican embassy in San Salvador. In Mexico City, a Foreign Ministry official said that there was indeed a Nicaraguan in the embassy, a student who attended university in Monterrey, Mexico...
...need for the Administration to be more persuasive in presenting its case against Marxist-led groups in Central America was emphasized last week by a growing conviction among members of Congress that the U.S. should be encouraging the Salvadoran government to negotiate with the guerrillas (see story on page 23). As concern about the legitimacy of the voting mounted, the Administration announced the names of eight U.S. citizens, led by Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum, who will gather in El Salvador to observe the process...