The human rights group Americas Watch on Thursday reported what it called a terrifying increase in human rights violations by both sides in El Salvador's civil war during the first half of 1985.
The Salvadoran government, in a surprise move, said Tuesday that it has agreed to a 10-day holiday cease-fire in the civil war previously approved by leftist rebels.
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The Christian Democratic Party of President Jose Napoleon Duarte claimed victory over its rightist opponents Sunday in elections for the country's powerful National Assembly.
El Salvador's government and leftist guerrillas will meet later this month for a third round of peace talks aimed at ending the country's five-year-old civil war, Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas said.
Retired Salvadoran Gen.
Your editorial (May 14), "Help for Salvadoran Refugees," is right on target.
that the armed forces of Nicaragua have supplied weapons to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador and
The deaths of two U.S. citizens in El Salvador's civil war is a sad reminder that the conflict is still unresolved more than seven years after it began.
An estimated 800 leftist guerrillas today killed 43 soldiers and a U.S. military adviser--the first to die in Salvadoran combat--in an attack on a major army base, Salvadoran and U.S. officials said.
President Reagan, after a meeting with Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, today praised the "heartwarming progress" that Duarte's country has made in consolidating democratic rule and in improving protection of human rights.
in retaliation for the slaying of four Marines in San Salvador but was dissuaded from ordering an attack, Newsweek magazine says.
Roberto D'Aubuisson, leader of the arch-conservative Arena party, has stepped down in an apparent effort to prevent his unpopularity from hurting the party, Arena officials said Monday.
Once again I applaud the efforts of The Times editorial board on its efforts to inject reason into the debate on El Salvador.
Anti-government rebels in El Salvador declared their third national transportation stoppage of the
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Now that the elections are over, the rich and famous are gearing up to help victims of the Oct. 10 earthquake in El Salvador.
The Salvadoran government today ordered the deportation of 23 religious workers, including at least 19 Americans, who were forcibly removed from a war zone where they were working with refugees.
Several hundred leftist rebels stormed El Salvador's third-largest city today, killing five soldiers and wounding 40 in their biggest attack this year, a military source said.
Salvadoran guerrillas that have been fighting the U.S.