Leftist Salvadoran rebels damaged power facilities, blacking out the capital and half the country to protest the government's new austerity measures, authorities said.
Efforts to negotiate an end to El Salvador's civil war have failed before, so one should not get too hopeful about the latest offer by President Jose Napoleon Duarte to talk with the leaders of the guerrilla factions fighting to overthrow him.
Salvadoran guerrillas that have been fighting the U.S.
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.
Four high-ranking Salvadoran army officers are among people being investigated as suspected members of a kidnaping ring that abducted members of El Salvador's wealthy families for ransoms totaling several million dollars, sources close to the case said Sunday.
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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.
in retaliation for the slaying of four Marines in San Salvador but was dissuaded from ordering an attack, Newsweek magazine says.
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.
Retired Salvadoran Gen.
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.
Once again I applaud the efforts of The Times editorial board on its efforts to inject reason into the debate on El Salvador.
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.
Anti-government rebels in El Salvador declared their third national transportation stoppage of the
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.
that the armed forces of Nicaragua have supplied weapons to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador and
Your editorial (May 14), "Help for Salvadoran Refugees," is right on target.
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.
Now that the elections are over, the rich and famous are gearing up to help victims of the Oct. 10 earthquake in El Salvador.
Soldiers discovered a column of leftist guerrillas in northeastern El Salvador and killed 17 in