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When a reported 70% of Salvadoran voters defied death threats from guerrilla forces to participate in national elections last March, the U.S. and the leaders of El Salvador's major parties interpreted the turnout as a stinging repudiation of the left-wing insurgency. While the rebels fell back to ponder the fate of their crusade, the Salvadoran high command exhorted them to lay down their arms and "join the fight the people want, the struggle for peace." But the unspoken truce did not last long. After a two-month lull in the fighting, the guerrillas launched an offensive...
...been at least that. The rebels captured the biggest prize of their arduous struggle when they shot down a helicopter near the Honduran border carrying Deputy Defense Minister Colonel Francisco Adolfo Castillo, 45, and the military commander of Morazan department, Colonel Salvador Beltran Luna, 45. The two officers were flying over rebel-held territory on a reconnaissance mission when their craft was struck by automatic-weapons fire. Beltran Luna was killed in the crash, but Castillo survived and was taken prisoner by the guerrillas. Several days later, Castillo was interviewed during a broadcast on the rebels' clandestine radio station...
...long," he snaps. "Everybody's joining up again. The fraternities, ROTC, the Christians." Patrick thinks the growing conservative tide on campus and the U.S. involvement in El Salvador are symptoms of the same disease that brought us Vietnam, but he's afraid it makes him sound stuck in the late-60s-early-70s to say so directly...
...charge of fraud raised by the Jesuit-run Central American University in San Salvador [June 14] is a thinly veiled attempt by the left to take away a fairly won victory. Disappointed by the rejection of their twisted Marxist liberation theology, the religious left has now resorted to charges of fraud in an election in which the people turned out en masse to say no to the violent minority. El Salvador's was a truly democratic election...
...shock waves and upsets. This year, for the first time, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), soccer's Swiss-based, iron-fisted ruling organization, expanded the number of qualifying first-round teams from 16 to 24. The soccer heavyweights complained. The inclusion of nations such as El Salvador, Northern Ireland and Algeria would merely prolong the first round, they muttered privately. Teams like Cameroon and Kuwait would bore the fans. New Zealand and Honduras would increase the probability that stars like Argentina's sensational Diego Maradona, Brazil's Zico and Germany's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge...