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- WORLD, Page 79World NotesEL SALVADORFight Today, Talk Tomorrow
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- For the past year, the leftist Farabundo Marti National
- Liberation Front has been itching for a rematch with El
- Salvador's U.S.-trained armed forces. Last year thousands of
- FMLN fighters nearly overran the capital, San Salvador, before
- the army's superior firepower inflicted heavy casualties on the
- rebels. Last week the FMLN launched a minioffensive in 10 of the
- country's 14 departments but scored no major victories.
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- Officials estimated that 200 civilians and fighters were
- killed, and more than 300 were wounded throughout the country.
- The FMLN leadership views such muscle flexing as a bargaining
- chip in U.N.-mediated negotiations with the government to end
- the decade-old civil war.
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