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...ballots were the problem. In China-meca, in the eastern department of San Miguel, voters were fired on by guerrillas in nearby coffee groves. People scattered, and the polls closed less than two hours after they had opened. Election officials assigned to the town of El Triunfo in central Usulutan department had even worse luck. When they arrived early on election day, they found guerrillas smashing the Lucite voting urns and making a campfire out of the paper ballots. Three miles north of the departmental capital of San Miguel, posters warning of land mines were planted on the road, watched...
...without any great public outcry, it has become a reality. Reagan recently stated that in no sense was the government "speaking of participation in combat by American forces." But Silva confirms that in February an American advisor, Sgt. Jay T. Stanley, was wounded during a rebel offensive in the Usulutan region. This incident of an American combat casualty was reported, but later omitted by both Time and Newsweek in recent features on El Salvador. Congress has complained not about the unethically of starting another Vietnam, but about the high cost and "lack of tangible effects." With the early...
...Americans are also distressed by the strategic planning in the Salvadoran high command. U.S. advisers stress that army troops should concentrate on making secure such vital zones as the cotton farms and cattle ranches of Usulutan, the western pasture lands and the capital itself. The Americans also insist that the army should make every effort to consolidate control of the nation's highways, where guerrillas have robbed motorists and burned some 80 vehicles in the past two weeks. Instead, the Defense Minister, General Jose Guillermo Garcia, decided to commit crack regiments to chase after guerrillas in Morazan...
...Warned one rebel slogan: "Vote in the morning, die in the afternoon." Even before election day dawned clear and stiflingly hot on March 28, the guerrillas launched scattered attacks in several of the capital's northern suburbs and a number of provincial towns. In the eastern city of Usulutan, nearly 500 insurgents made the sharpest assault of the day. Before retreating they managed to prevent local officials from opening the polls...
...only did the guerrillas fail to intimidate voters, they were able to mount only scattered skirmishes in place of a promised nationwide offensive. Yet, by blocking voting in the eastern town of Usulutan (pop. 41,000), the media-wise rebels attracted almost as much journalistic attention as they would have by creating numerous disruptions across the country. Fighting in Usulutan and a handful of other places provided the second sentence of the morning-after election reports in the New York Times and Washington Post, and commanded a separate Page One story in the Los Angeles Times. Although nearly all newspapers...