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...neatly typed letter to Mayor Marta Gomez de Melendez opened with a cordial greeting. But there was no mistaking it for fan mail. The message from the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) informed the mayor of Cojutepeque that she was obstructing El Salvador's revolution and gave her a choice: resign within 72 hours or face "popular justice." Gomez, a normally outspoken member of the right-wing ARENA party, knew exactly what * the last phrase meant. In the past year, eight mayors who ignored similar F.M.L.N. invitations to quit had been "executed," as the rebels call their...
Even as it makes a mockery of local government, the F.M.L.N. is challenging the Salvadoran army with its boldest military offensive since 1983. Two days before Christmas, a well-trained assault team lobbed three bombs into the headquarters of the El Salvador armed forces. Seconds later, three nearby car bombs detonated. In all, three people were killed and more than 30 injured, most of them civilians. The same week, urban commandos set off two car bombs outside the air force general command in Ilopango. Last week the guerrillas bombed Treasury police headquarters, killing one person and wounding several others...
...will probably be the scantiest in 30 years, disastrous news for a country that counts on this single product for one-third of its income. An additional 50% of its income comes from U.S. aid, but belt tightening in Washington could erode the $537 million currently allocated to El Salvador...
...F.M.L.N. may not be able to win a military victory, but its leaders evidently hope to make El Salvador ungovernable until they are ceded a share of the power. Yet the new surge of terror by both sides only brings more bitterness to a country that seems doomed to endless war and senseless slaughter...
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