Word: salvadors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pattern would be tedious if it were not so deadly. Every time the government of El Salvador announces that, yes, the rebel offensive is finally over and the capital of San Salvador is safe again, the guerrillas pop up in yet another neighborhood...
...home to the wealthy. Using luxury cars as barricades against the army's armored personnel carriers and light tanks, the rebels seized about 40 houses. For the most part, they carefully obeyed F.M.L.N. orders not to harm civilians. American officials warned F.M.L.N. representatives in Mexico City and San Salvador against endangering the lives of U.S. diplomats. None were hurt, but some envoys had close calls. On Thursday a chartered jet evacuated 234 civilian workers and dependents of U.S. officials. "The Bush Administration keeps saying that we are acting out of desperation, that the offensive will end soon," says an F.M.L.N...
...Escalon offensive rattled Cristiani, who only three days earlier had held a press conference to display a cache of weapons, including 24 surface- to-air missiles, found in the wreckage of a twin-engine Cessna that had crashed some 70 miles east of San Salvador. The plane almost certainly took off from Nicaragua, bolstering Cristiani's conviction that Ortega's Sandinista government was supplying arms to the F.M.L.N. despite a personal promise to Cristiani last August not to do so. Cristiani suspended diplomatic relations with Nicaragua and refused to attend a summit of Central American Presidents scheduled for this weekend...
...reverend gave special mention to one of the slain priests, Ignacio Ellacuria, who was in El Salvador on a scholarship from a Harvard-affiliated program...
...service began with an opening prayer by Sister Mary Karen Powers of the Catholic Student Center at Harvard and a moment of silence, followed by an excerpt from a letter written by a former Harvard graduate staying in El Salvador, a short poem by a Guatemalen poet, and Hollenbach's reflection...