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- <text id=90TT3218>
- <title>
- Dec. 03, 1990: World Notes:El Salvador
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 03, 1990 The Lady Bows Out
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 79
- World Notes
- EL SALVADOR
- Fight Today, Talk Tomorrow
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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