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Chapin said he will leave for El Salvador this weekend to begin directing the U.S. embassy there, but declined to discuss U.S. involvement in the country's civil war, citing orders from Haig. He also declined to reveal why White lost his post...
Frederic L. Chapin '50 was recently appointed acting ambassador to El Salvador...
...leadership of El Salvador's revolutionary left is a diverse, sometimes unlikely group, as varied in its personalities and ideologies as the alphabet soup of its political parties, grass-roots organizations and guerrilla armies. It is only within the past year that the leftists have tried to overcome their old antagonisms and unite under the umbrella of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) for a "final offensive" toward their common objective: the overthrow of the civilian-military junta and the installation of a revolutionary regime...
...senior revolutionary leader of the F.M.L.N., the joint military command of the five major antigovernment guerrilla groups, is Salvador Cayetano Carpio, 61, who rose through trade union ranks to become secretary-general of the Salvadoran Communist Party. In 1970 he broke away to pursue armed revolution. He formed the Forces of Popular Liberation, the largest guerrilla army operating under the F.M.L.N. umbrella. Cayetano owes his survival to his emphasis on security. Before their amalgamation with the other groups a year ago, Cayetano and his subordinates wore hoods so that they were not known even to each other. Cayetano himself...
Another key member of the commission is Ana Guadalupe Martinez, a hardening revolutionary who became El Salvador's best-known guerrilla commandante after she posed for a propaganda poster with a rifle cocked on her hip. The diminutive, 28-year-old former medical student left school in 1972 to join the People's Revolutionary Army, El Salvador's second largest guerrilla group. In 1976 she was captured by national police, raped and tortured during nine months in a secret prison...