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DIED. John Hoagland, 36, photographer for the Gamma-Liaison agency on assignment for Newsweek; of a gunshot wound suffered during a skirmish between government and guerrilla forces; near Suchitoto, El Salvador. Hoagland, a Central American specialist who had just been reassigned after a month's stint in Lebanon, was noted for his military knowledge and striking action photographs. He is the tenth foreign journalist killed in El Salvador in the past four years...
...really. The latest bout of congressional querulousness was partly inspired by disappointing news from the Salvadoran battlefront. In the town of Suchitoto (pop. about 11,000), 27 miles from the capital of San Salvador, hundreds of guerrilla members of the Faribundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) last week were continuing a prolonged attack against a garrison of 150 to 200 national guardsmen and police. All access roads to the town were cut off. Within the besieged area, food, medicines and potable water were growing scarce, and civilian refugees could escape from the fighting only by rowboat across a nearby reservoir...
...volcano, slipping through the army lines in the darkness to attack small outposts. They dress themselves up in army uniforms to greet a returning patrol or a lone watchman. Earlier they killed two guards near the gate of the hospital that is also used as a temporary barracks in Suchitoto, a once prosperous town five miles from the foot of the volcano...
...group claimed credit for the bombing and called for a "halt to the Yankee intervention in El Salvador. "In the Salvadoran countryside, meanwhile, government forces continued their counterinsurgency operations on several fronts. Last week TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich joined one such search-and-destroy mission near the town of Suchitoto, 20 miles northeast of the capital. His report...
Government forces, meanwhile, continued to attempt forays against the leftist insurgents holed up in remote areas. Last week skirmishes took place around the town of Suchitoto, where the guerrillas have cut off the water supply and isolated townspeople from a nearby reservoir. National Guard escorts now accompany water trucks to the town; one truck was blown up last week and its driver killed. Ironically, the guerrilla-induced water shortage has transformed the government forces in Suchitoto into local heroes-hardly the tactics recommended in the guerrilla warfare handbook...