Word: salvadore
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...Nicaragua, the people we kept down for so long rose up. In El Salvador the people have not been able to surmount the U.S.-supported junta. Why then would an improvement in Nicaraguan defense capabilities be so "alarming," in the words of the majority? Liberals can't seem to understand the nature of American involvement in the region, and they aren't taking the side of liberty and equality...
...ranks include such unlikely bedfellows as Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, and Jaime Ongpin, president of the Benguet mining corporation. Also included are Corazon Aquino, Ninoy's widow, and Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, his younger brother. The opposition draws experience from such veteran Marcos foes as Salvador Laurel, head of the opposition United Nationalist Democratic Organization coalition, and Lorenzo Tañada, 86, the grand old man of the opposition...
...five companies of troops and a military band fell into line outside a San Salvador funeral home, a casket the color of a polished bayonet was lifted into the hearse. Fifteen minutes later, the somber parade arrived at the Church of Perpetual Help. The pews filled quickly. President José Napoleón Duarte slipped in by a side aisle, while U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering took a seat near the back. All had come to honor Lieut. Colonel Domingo Monterrosa Barrios, a man whose title only partly explained his importance. "Domingo was a good man," said the Rev. Manuel Vega...
...tragedy came during a major army sweep through the mountainous department of Morazán, a rebel-infested area 115 miles southeast of San Salvador. The 400-man helicopter assault, named Operation Torola 4 and directed by Monterrosa, inaugurated the army's new strategy of "air-mobile warfare" less than a week after President Duarte's historic peace meeting with rebel leaders in La Palma. Though few rebels were found, the maneuvers yielded documents and other information about how the insurgents are organized. Monterrosa was well aware of the risks in such an operation: two days before...
Though Monterrosa's death is a setback for El Salvador, military officials insisted that the conduct of the war would not be affected. Two hours after the crash, Armed Forces Spokesman Ricardo Aristides Cienfuegos announced replacements for the dead officers. Meanwhile, the guerrillas also kept on fighting. They ambushed a police patrol and tried to knock out a water-pumping station last week in San Salvador. That attack failed, but it was the first extended bout of warfare in the capital in recent months. A trio of rebels also gunned down a Salvadoran guard as he walked...