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...candle was then lighted for each of 12 Salvadoran victims, and an additional one for the 80,000 Salvadorans killed in the civil war over the last 10 years...

Author: By Henri K. Lee, | Title: Service Commemorates Killing of Jesuit Priests | 12/6/1989 | See Source »

...note slipped under my door, or a rally in my dining hall, I would have no argument. But when my privacy is involved, my position on the El Salvador issue becomes irrelevant. What if they had sent me a letter telling me that my mother had been killed by Salvadoran terrorists? Should I have boarded the next plane home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COCA Notices Were Invasion of Privacy | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

...entire operation was conducted by Salvadoran soldiers. Only at the end, when the Green Berets ran out, did the U.S. forces become involved. The actual number of U.S. commandos sent to El Salvador was thought to be small, although a much larger force was positioned outside the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: The Sheraton Siege | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...rebels also embarrassed the army with their ability to disappear, then re-emerge at will, often using sewer pipes to leave areas or exchanging battle fatigues for civilian clothes and merging into the population. Equally unsettling to the Cristiani government, as well as to Washington, is that thousands of Salvadoran residents have collaborated with the rebels. A U.S. Administration official admitted last week that "there was a torrent of arms and ammunition" into San Salvador. Said he: "That couldn't have taken place had not a lot of people helped, or at the minimum, kept quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: The Sheraton Siege | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...been asked to help study fingerprints found at the scene, and since all Salvadorans are fingerprinted when they receive a driver's license, the murderers should not be hard to track down -- if the Cristiani government cooperates. If it does not, the rebels could have achieved a major goal: to provoke a crisis in U.S.-Salvadoran relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: The Sheraton Siege | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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