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Bradford C. Mank '83, president of SASC, described the rebels as "pro-Maoist" and "hard-liners," saying they are not members of the major Salvadoran opposition group...
...take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union. We wind up driving into the adversary camp people who are not natural adversaries of the West but who become so through the logic of the situation we impose upon them. I know the president of the Salvadoran revolutionary movement, Guillermo Ungo, very well. He is a very quiet social democrat. I had lunch with him a week ago here. He is in no way a Communist...
...Salvador's undertrained 10,000-man army and simultaneously dealing painful blows to the nation's economy. In the process, they are forcing U.S. military instructors and diplomats in El Salvador to face up to some hard realities of the war and the quality of the Salvadoran forces fighting...
...fact that the struggle will be much tougher than previously imagined was brutally underlined last month. For the first time, units of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front captured a small Salvadoran National Guard garrison, that of the isolated northeastern town of Perquin (pop. 3,700). The guerrillas held the town for seven days; all the while their clandestine radio station, Radio Venceremos, spread news of the feat across the country. The insurgents finally retreated after the Salvadoran army moved reinforcements into the area and bombed the town. According to guerrilla accounts, their casualties were light-only one killed-while...
...businessmen, who have close ties to military officers displeased with the junta's policies, first clashed openly with the Duarte government over a proposed relaxation of a wage-price freeze. Government officials quashed the plan. Since then, businessmen, frustrated by the lack of international confidence in the Salvadoran economy, have pressed Duarte to moderate his reforms by giving the private sector freer reign. The campaign has had some success. Besides loosening tax and credit requirements, the junta has indefinitely postponed its planned second stage of the land-reform program, which would have converted some 1,500 small farms...