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Unidentified gunmen killed a Transportation Ministry official and seriously wounded the director of the postal service in separate attacks in the capital, police said Friday.
The captain's jeep barreled into town behind a pickup truck full of soldiers with eyes alert and fingers poised on the triggers of their M-16s.
The Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal by six Americans seeking $20 million from the U.S. government after their coffee plantation was taken over under El Salvador's agrarian reform program.
through Honduras and El Salvador, where the governments have barred their entrance.
Guerrillas Thursday accused El Salvador's government of violating a holiday truce with an air raid of bombs and rockets against the rebels in the eastern province of Morazan, but the army commander there and in other conflict areas said they had not been informed of any truce.
Much to the dismay of U.S government attorneys, a Los Angeles federal court trial on whether U.S. immigration officials violate the civil rights of Salvadoran refugees has become a volatile political forum for horror stories about life in the war-torn Central American nation.
Social democrats who went into exile six years ago and made an alliance with armed guerrillas are slowly sending some of their members back into the country to organize opposition to the government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte.
California on Saturday along with most others in a delegation of similarly committed religious activists expelled from El Salvador.
A conservative leader of the Roman Catholic Church said Sunday that the Christian Democratic administration here should consider rewriting El Salvador's three-year-old constitution if that's what it takes to make peace with leftist guerrillas.
based in El Salvador directed supply flights to Nicaraguan rebels from military bases in El Salvador and Honduras.
1984 was dismissed Monday after prosecutors learned that the suspect was killed in similar fashion in El Salvador.
enter El Salvador to attend a university-sponsored peace forum.
Resembling a rural pastor in the pulpit, the veteran guerrilla paced the base of a shady tree in the town square, jabbing his forefinger at the men and women gathered on a Sunday afternoon.
Guerrilla leaders announced Friday that they will take no offensive military action during the Christmas and New Year holidays and urged the government to do the same.
Leftist guerrillas launched their first major attack in the economically important western province of Sonsonate early Thursday, destroying four coffee-processing plants, burning a bank and battling a civil defense patrol and army troops for several hours.
The former chief of El Salvador's intelligence agency charged Thursday that a Nicaraguan rebel officer trained some of his country's rightist "death squads" and helped organize the 1980 assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero.
Defense Secretary Caspar W.
The air war in El Salvador, an object of mixed military reviews and heavy criticism from human
conviction of the gunmen who killed six Americans in El Salvador on June 19, the State Department announced Friday.