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...more elusive assemblage of five men and a woman slipped into town: fatigue-clad guerrillas of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) and shirt-sleeved civilian representatives of the guerrillas' political arm, the Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), the government's main adversaries in the Salvadoran conflict.* The rebel group followed Duarte's contingent inside the church, and the doors closed behind them. The two sides sat down at a plain wooden table beneath a crucifix and a quotation painted on the blue wall that admonished COME TO ME, THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WEARY...
After the guerrillas quietly moved out of town, Duarte emerged from the church, took a microphone and, while one of the Salvadoran Boy Scouts-the main peacekeeping force in town-held up a bullhorn, praised the "admirable attitude of both sides." Each, Duarte told the crowd, was aware of the "misery, pain, injustice and lack of liberty of the Salvadoran people ... We aren't offering miracles. But Salvadoran people together can gain the miracle of their liberation and peace for all." Said Duarte: "These have been among the most transcendental hours in Salvadoran history...
...Palma meeting seemed to uncover a craving in almost every sector of Salvadoran society for an end to the bloodshed. Evelio Sorto, a teacher displaced by the war from his home in the northern department of Morazán, was among the crowd that trekked to La Palma. "If this opportunity is lost, we may never have another," he observed. Said Oscar Martínez, a local peasant: "This is a beautiful country, but the war is destroying it. I hope the leaders can forget their differences and think about what they are doing to El Salvador...
...representative of the EI Salvadoran guerrillas and several prominent Harvard academics attacked the increasing militarization of the Administration's Central American policy at a Law School teach-in-yesterday...
...What I found there galls me," he said, referring to the human rights abuses by the Salvadoran military...