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...automatic-rifle fire echoed in the cloud-draped mountains along the El Salvador-Honduras border, U.S.-supplied "Huey" transport helicopters banked low over steep, forested gorges, then deposited heavily armed troops at key locations on the forbidding terrain. According to eyewitnesses, the elite Atlacatl Brigade, some 800 to 1,000 strong, landed near the village of Valladolid, Honduras, violating Honduran airspace and territory as local soldiers looked on impassively. The invaders' mission: to engage leftist Salvadoran guerrilla forces entrenched in pockets along the demilitarized border zone established after El Salvador's four-day war in 1969 with Honduras...
...operation was the first real test for Salvadoran forces trained by a 15-member team of U.S. military advisers sent to El Salvador last March. Armed with U.S.-made M-16 assault rifles and supported by mortars and grenade launchers, the troops fanned out in search of refugee camps that harbored leftist sympathizers, then turned their attention to guerrilla sanctuaries at Arcatao and Los Filos, just across the border in El Salvador...
After a two-month lull in the anti-guerrilla war, the operation clearly demonstrated the government's new military power. But in San Salvador, the moderate junta, led by President José Napoleón Duarte, was having new and serious problems. Right-wing businessmen, long attacked by Duarte as the greatest threat to the junta, were grasping for a share of power in the beleaguered country. Said the President: "The private sector is in its final offensive...
...responses as it goes along. The Administration's answer is that a clarification process is under way. Speaking before the World Affairs Council, Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders declared that the U.S. favors a negotiated settlement, international mediation and political solutions to the civil war in El Salvador. Enders condemned violence by the right as well as the left, which he said were "inextricably linked" in a tragic cycle. True enough, the U.S. has consistently favored a democratic solution to El Salvador's problems, involving free elections. But conspicuously missing from Enders' speech was any mention...
...trio also read a letter, allegedly written by Pastora on June 26, suggesting that he would carry on the struggle in El Salvador or Guatemala, fighting in "the trenches where the duty of an international combatant leads...