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...from El Salvador, aged 13 to 35, who boarded an air-conditioned bus on June 28, hoping to join the mounting exodus from their overcrowded, violence-torn country. About July 2, they reached the border at the southwest corner of Arizona. They were being shepherded by four or five Salvadoran and Mexican "coyotes"-men who sneak aliens across the border for as much as $2,000 each...
Using helicopters, horses and dune buggies, the patrolmen found eight men that evening-two dead, the rest barely alive. A ninth man, who may have been the chief Salvadoran smuggler, had fallen behind and was lost...
...week's end Salvadoran Elias Nunez-Guardado, 26, and Mexican Mateo Preciado, 58, were being held on charges of transporting illegal aliens. Another smuggler made his way north to the town of Why and disappeared. Two other members of the party remain entirely unaccounted...
Wishing to avoid a replay of the previous week's catastrophe in Guatemala, where a police attack on the occupied Spanish embassy resulted in 39 deaths, Salvadoran authorities kept their security forces away from the scene. Right-wing terrorists showed no such restraint: shortly after the embassy seizure, a leftist doctor was gunned down at his clinic; members of an ultraconservative group threatened to execute three kidnaped Communist leaders and burn down the embassy if the occupiers did not withdraw within 24 hours. Before that deadline was reached, the militants at the embassy freed seven of their hostages...
...effort to avert all-out civil war, junior officers in the Salvadoran army had toppled the despotic military regime of General Carlos Humberto Romero last October and installed a five-man junta composed of two moderate colonels and three reform-minded civilians. The new government was immediately attacked by extremists on both the left and right. Further weakened by internal divisions, the junta was unable to stop the violence...