Word: salvadorans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvador, six to ten gunmen leaped out of a pickup truck and opened fire on diners enjoying an evening meal at four adjoining sidewalk cafes on a downtown street. Killed: four off-duty U.S. Marine guards from the nearby American embassy, two American businessmen, five Salvadorans, a Chilean and a Guatemalan. At least 15 people were injured. Witnesses said the gunmen, disguised as Salvadoran army regulars, concentrated their fire on the Marines and even hunted one down in a back room. The killers are presumed to be Marxist rebels, turning to urban terrorism because their guerrilla war in the jungles...
...days the general hospital of the Social Security Institute in San Salvador had been controlled by striking hospital employees demanding higher wages and better working conditions. In the view of Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, the strike was part of a wave of Communist-inspired labor unrest. Last week helicopter-borne police commandos were ordered to retake the hospital. The result was mayhem...
...designation of the city as a sanctuary for E1 Salvadoran, Guatemalan, and Haitian refugees. In addition to opening all public schools and hospitals for refugees, the city council ordered municipal employees not to cooperate with federal authorities seeking to extradite political refugees...
...miles from San Jose to train hundreds of civil guardsmen. The only bright spot was El Salvador, where captured documents gave backing to Administration claims that Salvadoran leftist guerrillas have strong ties to Nicaragua and the Soviet bloc...
There was some comfort for the Reagan Administration in El Salvador, where the government last week revealed documents that, if authentic, back Washington's charges of strong leftist Salvadoran guerrilla ties to the Soviet bloc and Nicaragua. The papers indicate that several guerrillas have attended military-training courses in the Soviet Union, Viet Nam, East Germany and Bulgaria. The letters, diaries and other documents also suggest that relations between the Salvadoran rebels and the Sandinistas have been strained at times, particularly in the months following the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. The papers, said one U.S. official, "tend to confirm...