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When a dozen gunmen sprayed automatic weapons fire into the U.S. embassy in San Salvador last week and launched a rocket-propelled grenade that hit the third-floor conference room, staffers ran for safety with practiced speed. No wonder. It was the fourth attack on the building in the past month. Once again, no one was injured; once again, the raiders got away, despite return fire from the Salvadoran security guard and a lone U.S. Marine on the roof. The conference room, newly repaired after a previous RPG attack, had its ceiling demolished and its windows blown out. The ambassador...
...increasing security," but noted the difficulty of stopping an RPG. "It is designed to go through tanks, and we don't have any of them here, unfortunately." Chapin also declared that the U.S. "is not going to be intimidated" in its policy of broad support for El Salvador's civilian-military junta. In Washington, an Administration request for $5 million in additional military aid received final approval in a close vote by a House subcommittee. Meanwhile, American opposition to such aid took the form of large rallies last week in several U.S. cities...
...leftist guerrilla group took credit for the embassy strike. "Operation Oscar Arnulfo Romero," it announced, had been mounted to honor the memory of the Archbishop of San Salvador who was assassinated a year ago by a presumed right-wing terrorist. The embassy assault followed a 24-hour truce, also called by the guerrillas to commemorate the prelate's death. The cease-fire was generally observed by government forces, but not by El Salvador's right-wing death squads. The morning after the truce, the bodies of 38 victims were found in and around the capital...
Suddenly they were back in the news, if briefly: young people marching with placards and upraised fists to protest U.S. military intervention in El Salvador. Naturally the demonstrations stirred memories of the Viet Nam War. But they were also a striking reminder of something else: how little American youth has made its presence felt in recent years...
Upton refused to comment on the leaflets themselves. "Students at the Law School have been more political in recent months," she said, adding that "organizations on issues like the right to life and El Salvador have been created right and left...