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...exuberant teenagers, stomping their feet and shaking the arena. Then they began to chant "Pin-o-chet, go away!," conscious that they were on the site where scores of Chileans were killed and hundreds tortured after the 1973 coup in which General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte toppled elected Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens. His voice trembling, the Pope acknowledged the "sadness" of the place and urged his audience "not to remain indifferent in the face of injustice" but cautioned them to avoid being "seduced by violence and the thousands of reasons that seem to justify...
...total confusion," a survivor said later. "It was dark and the wounded were screaming, and we didn't know what was happening." At about 2 a.m., the first mortar fire crashed into the Salvadoran army's garrison at El Paraiso, just 36 miles from the capital of San Salvador. In a daring and well- planned attack last week, leftist guerrillas of the Popular Liberation Forces killed at least 69 government soldiers, as well as a U.S. military adviser, Staff Sergeant Gregory Fronius, 27, of Greensburg, Pa. He was the first American to die in combat during El Salvador's seven...
...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...
...mysteries concerning U.S. aid to the contras has been why Washington for a time funneled supplies through Ilopango air base in El Salvador rather than through Honduras, the rebels' sanctuary. Administration officials now say the move enabled the U.S. to dodge a sting...
...kidnap drama ended almost as quickly as it began. But tragedy seemed in the making when a heavily armed man and woman took over a San Salvador school and held 947 students and 27 teachers hostage. The couple turned out to be a crazed 18-year-old army deserter and his 17-year-old girlfriend. After six hours of negotiations, the two surrendered. Though many questioned the man's claim that he was a leftist guerrilla, the incident illustrated the capital's deteriorating security. Hours before the hostage taking, an attack by real guerrillas had left two San Salvador police...