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...nine-member council refused a request for official sponsorship of a local mission to investigate reports that Salvadoran troops recently invaded San Jose Las Flores, the Central American town which may become Cambridge's symbolic "sister city...
David Grosser, a member of the Cambridge-El Salvador Sister City Project, testified that he and Susan Freireich would join a group leaving Thursday to seek the release of 11 villagers who have been arrested by Salvadoran police. Grosser said the council's endorsement would "ensure our safety on this trip" and lend force to their requests...
During its upcoming, five-day trip, Freireich said the group will seek meetings with President Jose Napoleon Duarte, American Ambassador Edwin Corr and El Salvadoran military leaders. Members also plan to visit the village, gather testimony about the attack and report it at a press conference in San Salvador...
...past seven years, the U.S. has provided El Salvador with $500 million in military aid and $1.5 billion more in economic assistance. Since 1980 the size of the Salvadoran army has grown fourfold, to 52,000, while that of the guerrillas has dropped from 10,000 to an estimated 5,000 to 6,000. The army's overall mobility and effectiveness have increased markedly, and it is no longer ridiculed as a "9-to-5" outfit whose officers go home on weekends and holidays...
...Chile, the Pope calls for human rights. -- Guerrillas attack the Salvadoran army and kill a U. S. soldier. -- Thatcher in Moscow...