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WORLD, Page 31World NotesEL SALVADORAn End to the Bloodletting?
A crackle of gunfire from the Guazapa volcano in El
Salvador's heartland cut through the din of New Year's Eve
revelry. But the bursts were not the usual barrage of death.
Instead, rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
were sending up a celebratory salvo on learning that their
negotiators had at last arrived at a peace accord with the
conservative government of President Alfredo Cristiani.
If all goes according to plan, a Feb. 1 cease-fire will
end the 12-year civil war that has claimed 75,000 lives and
made El Salvador a synonym for bloodshed and human-rights
abuses. Once disarmed, the rebels plan to form a political
party, while the government will slash its armed forces from
56,000 to about 20,000.
The document signed at the United Nations is essentially
an agreement to keep talking to settle the final terms for
peace. Negotiators must still decide when to implement each step
of the plan.