PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA
HAS CONFIRMED THAT THE U.S.  TROOPS THAT SURROUNDED OUR DIPLOMATIC
MISSION IN PANAMA WERE WITHDRAWN AFTER A FORMER MINISTER SURNAMED
CORDOVA LEFT THE EMBASSY.  THE MILITARY MAN, WHO IS INVOLVED IN A
MURDER TRIAL, LEFT THE PERUVIAN EMBASSY AS SOON AS HE LEARNED THAT THE
EMBASSY CONSIDERED HIM PERSONA NON GRATA.

   (BEGIN RECORDING) (GARCIA) I THINK JOURNALISTS HAVE MAGNIFIED THE ISSUE A
BIT.  AS FAR AS WE KNOW, PEOPLE SOUGHT PROTECTION....(CHANGES THOUGHT)
SOMEONE ARRIVES AT THE DOOR OF THE EMBASSY AND ASKS FOR REFUGE IN VIEW OF A
SITUATION OF FORCE.  THE SITUATION IN PANAMA IS ABNORMAL; IT HAS BEEN
TOTALLY INVADED BY 30,000 SOLDIERS.

   SOME PERSONS ENTERED THE EMBASSY.  AT LEAST ONE OF THEM HAD BEEN ALLEGEDLY
LINKED WITH THE DEATH OF A PANAMANIAN MINISTER, A MR SPADAFORA, WHO WAS
MURDERED. THE AUTHORITIES OF THE EMBASSY AND OF THE FOREIGN MINISTRY STATED
THAT THIS PERSON'S PRESENCE WAS UNDESIRABLE.  WE DO NOT REFUSE TO GRANT
REFUGE--A CONDITION THAT IS GRANTED BEFORE GRANTING POLITICAL ASYLUM--TO
WHOMEVER FEELS HARASSED OR MISTREATED.  IN A CASE LIKE THIS, HOWEVER, IN
WHICH THERE WAS AN ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN A MURDER WHICH WAS COMMITTED YEARS
AGO, THIS PERSON--I BELIEVE HE IS A MAN SURNAMED CORDOVA, APPARENTLY A
HIGHRANKING PANAMANIAN GUARD OFFICER--WAS TOLD THAT HIS PRESENCE WAS NOT
WANTED.  HE LEFT THE EMBASSY OF HIS OWN WILL.

   THERE ARE OTHER PANAMANIAN DEFENSE FORCES OFFICERS AT THE EMBASSY,
INCLUDING MR NORIEGA'S SECRETARY, BUT THEIR STATUS SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED BY
PERU.

   AN INCIDENT WAS REPORTED YESTERDAY, AS THE U.S. TROOPS SURROUNDED THE
EMBASSY, DEPLOYING BARRIERS AND BARBED WIRE.

   THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT TO DEPICT A DRAMATIC AND SPECTACULAR PICTURE OF A
SIEGE OR PERHAPS OF AN INVASION OF THE EMBASSY. 

   FORTUNATELY, THE FOREIGN MINISTRY RESORTED TO DIPLOMATIC CHANNELS AND THE
TROOPS WERE SOON WITHDRAWN. (END RECORDING)

THE MNR REPORTS THE DISAPPEARANCE
AND KIDNAPPING OF MNR ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL [HECTOR OQUELI
COLINDRES]1 IN GUATEMALA CITY TODAY, 12 JANUARY.

   OQUELI ARRIVED IN GUATEMALA ON 11 JANUARY.  HE HAD PLANNED TO TRAVEL TO
NICARAGUA EARLY ON 12 JANUARY TO JOIN A SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL DELEGATION
IN THAT COUNTRY.  FROM NICARAGUA HE WOULD TRAVEL TO QUITO, ECUADOR, TO
ATTEND A CONVENTION OF THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR LATIN
AMERICA, OF WHICH OQUELI IS SECRETARY.

   ACCORDING TO REPORTS, OQUELI AND HIS COMPANION [GILDA FLORES]1, A MEMBER OF
THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF GUATEMALA, WERE ABDUCTED BY [HEAVILY ARMED MEN]1
BETWEEN 0630 AND 0700 AS THEY WERE HEADING TO LA AURORA AIRPORT TO BOARD
THEIR FLIGHT.

   WE URGE THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, PARTICULARLY THE DEMOCRATIC
GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD, TO DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF HECTOR OQUELI
AND HIS COMPANION, AS WELL AS A TOTAL CLARIFICATION OF THIS ATTACK.

   (SIGNED) MNR NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

   (DATED) 12 JANUARY 1990, SAN SALVADOR

SALVADORAN COLONEL SIGIFREDO
OCHOA PEREZ TODAY SAID THAT THE MASTERMINDS OF THE SIX JESUIT PRIESTS'
MURDER ARE NOT "SOLDIERS OR LIEUTENANTS," BUT ARE "MUCH HIGHER IN THE
HIERARCHY."

   "REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT WAS A GENERAL OR COLONEL, WHOEVER MASTERMINDED
THIS CRIME MUST BE PUNISHED," THE RANKING LEADER OF THE RULING ARENA
(NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE) PARTY AND RETIRED OFFICER SAID DURING A
TELEVISED INTERVIEW. 

   THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MULTIPLE MURDER THAT TOOK PLACE ON 16 NOVEMBER
"ARE NOT SOLDIERS OR LIEUTENANTS," HE SAID.

   "THIS ACTION INVOLVED [MUCH HIGHER LEVEL [OFFICERS]1]1, AND EVEN IF A GENERAL OR
COLONEL IS INVOLVED, (THE CULPRITS) MUST BE PUNISHED," HE POINTED OUT.

   HE ADDED: "WE HOPE THAT IT WILL NOT BE AS IN THE PAST WHEN THE MASTERMINDS
ARE PROTECTED.  AS THE SAYING GOES: THE LITTLE GUYS ALWAYS PAY."

   OCHOA SAID THAT HE IS CONVINCED THAT "INVESTIGATIONS MUST BE PURSUED" AND
THAT NOBODY SHOULD RECEIVE "SPECIAL TREATMENT," BECAUSE "UNFORTUNATELY,
THERE ARE ELEMENTS WHO ARE HURTING THE ARMY AND THE PRESIDENT, AND THE HIGH
COMMAND HAVE TO PURGE THEM."

   OCHOA, FORMER DEPUTY AND CURRENT PRESIDENT OF THE STATE POWER COMPANY,
DESCRIBED AS "COURAGEOUS" THE DECISION OF PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI TO
PUBLICLY ADMIT THAT MEMBERS OF THE [ARMED FORCES]1 MASSACRED THE SIX JESUIT
PRIESTS AND TWO WOMEN.

   ON 7 JANUARY, CRISTIANI OFFICIALLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT [MILITARY PERSONNEL]1
KILLED THE JESUITS, THEIR COOK, AND THE COOK'S 15-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.

   HOWEVER, HE REFUSED TO REVEAL THE NAMES OF THOSE INVOLVED TO AVOID
HAMPERING THE INVESTIGATION.

   THE COLONEL SAID: "WE HOPE THAT THE NAMES WILL BE REVEALED SOON AND THAT
THESE PEOPLE WILL BE PUNISHED."

   OBSERVERS BELIEVE THAT OCHOA'S STATEMENTS, WHICH MIGHT SUGGEST AN INTERNAL
STRUGGLE WITHIN THE RULING ARENA, EXPRESS AN IMPLICIT WISH TO SEE THIS
ABOMINABLE CRIME RESOLVED."

   THE RETIRED COLONEL ADDED THAT THE "COURAGEOUS" POSITION OF CRISTIANI
REGARDING THIS CASE HAS BROUGHT HIM STRONG INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT THAT IS
HELPING TO STRENGTHEN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS THAT THE CURRENT PRESIDENT
WANTS TO PROMOTE.

   ALTHOUGH OCHOA ADMITTED THAT IN EL SALVADOR MILITARY POWER HAS BEEN BEHIND
THE REAL POWER AND THAT TRYING A MILITARY MAN HAS BEEN TABOO, HE SAID THAT
CRISTIANI "IS DETERMINED TO INTENSIFY A PURGE OF SUCH ELEMENTS FROM THE
[ARMED FORCES]1."

   HE ALSO ADMITTED "THAT THERE ARE STILL SALVADORAN MILITARY MEN WHO BELIEVE
THAT THEY HOLD POWER AND THAT THEY CAN USE THEIR RIFLES AND THE POWER THAT
THEIR WEAPONS GIVE THEM."

THE
U.S.  CONGRESSMEN'S WORKTABLES ARE FILLED WITH SURPRISES.  THEY ARE TO
RENEW THEIR SESSIONS IN 2 WEEKS' TIME, AND IMPORTANT MATTERS ARE
WAITING TO BE DISCUSSED.

   AFTER THE FMLN (FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT) STARTED ITS 11
NOVEMBER OFFENSIVE WHICH BURIED THE ARMY'S PROPAGANDISTIC CLAIMS THAT IT HAD
FINISHED OFF THE GUERRILLAS, ALONG CAME THE GREAT SURPRISES IN THE EAST
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, WHEN THEY BROUGHT DOWN WALLS WITHOUT HAVING TO RESORT TO
MILITARY INVASIONS AND ATTAINED A DEMOCRATIC OPENING.  ENDING THE YEAR, THE
WORLD WAS SURPRISED WITH THE BRUTAL U.S. INVASION OF PANAMA.

   NOW, WHEN THE LAST DECADE OF THE CENTURY IS ABOUT TO BEGIN, EL SALVADOR
ADDS ANOTHER PAGE TO THE BOOK OF LAST-MINUTE SURPRISES.  ALFREDO CRISTIANI
HIMSELF--WHO, TOGETHER WITH [ARMED FORCES]1 OFFICERS, SAID HOURS AFTER THE
JESUITS AND THEIR MAIDS HAD BEEN MURDERED THAT THERE WERE SUSPICIONS THAT
THE FMLN COULD BE INVOLVED IN THE MASSACRE--HAS JUST ACCEPTED, ESPECIALLY
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE U.S. CONGRESS, THAT [[ARMED FORCES]1 PERSONNEL]1 WERE THE
ONES WHO MURDERED THE TOP BRAINS, THE BEST INTELLECTUALS OF EL SALVADOR.
THE MURDERERS WERE MILITARY PERSONNEL, AND, AT LEAST ON THE NATIONAL
TELEVISON NETWORK, CRISTIANI PROMISED TO DISLOSE THEIR NAMES.  (PASSAGE
INDISTINCT)...THE JESUITS' MURDERS OR THE CANCELLATION OF AID.

   IF IT IS TRUE THAT THE ARMY--WHICH MURDERED MONSIGNO OSCAR ROMERO, 1,000
PEASANTS IN EL MOZOTE, 70 INDIANS IN LAS HOJAS, HUNDREDS OF SALVADORANS IN
ZUNPU, AND UNIONISTS AT THE FENASTRAS (SALVADORAN WORKERS NATIONAL UNION
FEDERATION) OFFICES, ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE [ARMED FORCES]1' WELL-KNOWN
CRIMES--IS GOING TO BE PURGED AT LAST, IF THIS IS REALLY TRUE, THEN WE WOULD
HAVE TO SAY THAT A TRUE NEGOTIATION WILL START.  IN THE PAST, THE FMLN HAS
MADE PROPOSALS FOR NEGOTIATIONS TO END THE WAR.  

   ONE OF OUR DEMANDS, A REALISTIC DEMAND TO PROPITIATE PEACE IN EL SALVADOR,
IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE PURGE OF THE ARMY.  IN MEXCIO AND IN SAN JOSE, COSTA
RICA, WE SAID THAT IF THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT ACCEPT THE FMLN'S PROPOSAL, THE
NATION WOULD DO SO.  AND THAT IS WHAT HAS HAPPENED.  THE NATION DEMANDS THAT
THE [ARMED FORCES]1 BE PURGED.

   THE MOST IMPORTANT U.S. NEWSPAPERS AND NEWSCASTS HAVE NOTED THE
IRREFUTABLE FACT THAT 10 YEARS OF U.S. ADVICE AND AN INVESTMENT OF MORE THAN
$3 BILLION--VERY CLOSE TO $4 BILLION--TO CREATE A HUGE BUILDUP IN THEIR
ARMAMENTS HAVE NOT SERVED TO CHANGE THE MENTALITY OF AN ARMY THAT MURDERED
MONSIGNOR ROMERO AND THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS, INCLUDING NUNS AND U.S.
ADVISERS.  WE BELIEVE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR CHRISTOPHER DODD WAS MISTAKEN WHEN
HE SAID THAT U.S. AID IN ITSELF WAS NOT BEING DISCUSSED.  THE 10 YEARS OF
AID, ADVICE, AND U.S. STRATEGY IN EL SALVADOR HAVE PROVEN TO BE A FAILURE.
IF THE UNITED STATES HAS ANY INTENTIONS OF CONTRIBUTING TO PEACE, NOW IS THE
TIME TO CHANGE ITS POLICY TOWARD EL SALVADOR.

   EVENTS HAVE PLACED THE ISSUE OF THE CONTINUATION OF AID TO EL SALVADOR ON
THE CONGRESSMEN'S WORKTABLES.  THE AID WAS MADE CONDITIONAL ON PUNISHMENT
FOR THE JESUITS' MURDERS.  BUT WHAT IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY?  IT IS A
DECISION THAT GOES BEYOND A BASIC DEMAND FOR JUSTICE.  IT WILL DETERMINE THE
CONTINUATION OF U.S. AID.  IT ENTAILS THE DECISION TO TURN THEIR POLICY
AROUND TO CONTRIBUTE TO A POLITICAL SOLUTION IN EL SALVADOR.  THEY ARE TO
DISCUSS WHETHER CONGRESS' POSITION IS TO BE: ONE, WE APPROVE THE PURGE OF
THE ARMY AND THUS WE WILL GIVE THEM MORE AID, OR, TWO, WE APPROVE THE PURGE
AS A CONCRETE STEP TO DEMOCRATIZATION AND WILL SUSPEND MILITARY AID SO THAT
THESE CONDITIONS CAN BE USED TO REACH A NEGOTIATED POLITICAL SOLUTION.

   WILL U.S. CONGRESSMEN BE CAPABLE OF SURPRISING THE WORLD BY HELPING THE
SALVADORANS TO TOPPLE THE FASCIST WALL, THE WALL OF WAR?  WILL THEY DO THIS
BY STOPPING MILITARY AID?  THE FMLN HAS SAID CLEARLY THAT IF THE UNITED
STATES STOPS AID TO THE ARMY IT WILL CORRESPOND WITH ACTIONS TO REACH A
COMPLETE HALT IN HOSTILITIES.  WE HOPE THE U.S. CONGRESS DOES NOT MAKE A
MISTAKE.  IF IT STOPS AID, IF IT CUTS IT, IF IT ENDS IT, WE WILL STAND
BEFORE A CLEAR AND HOPEFUL SIGN FOR PEACE.  HOWEVER, IF NOT, WE WILL STAND
BEFORE YET ANOTHER SIGN OF WAR, AND THE SURPRISE WILL NOT BE A GOOD ONE.

IT WAS REPORTED IN BOGOTA TODAY THAT
THE COLOMBIAN ARMY CAPTURED SUSPECTED PERUVIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER JOSE
CARDENAS GUERRA ON A FARM IN PURIFICACION, IN CENTRAL COLOMBIA.  CARDENAS
GUERRA IS APPARENTLY LINKED TO THE MEDELLIN DRUG CARTEL.

   THE SOLDIERS FOUND CARDENAS GUERRA WITH SEVERAL WORKERS OF THE FARM,
WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE INVESTIGATIONS, WAS OWNED BY GONZALO RODRIGUEZ
GACHA, WHO WAS KILLED DURING A POLICE OPERATION ON 15 DECEMBER.

   OFFICIAL SPOKESMEN INDICATED THAT THE TROOPS DID NOT MEET ANY RESISTANCE
FROM THE SUSPECTED MAFIA MEMBERS WHO WERE CARRYING FIREARMS.

   CARDENAS GUERRA WAS TRANSFERRED FROM PURIFICACION TO THE SECRET POLICE
OFFICES IN IBAGUE, CAPITAL OF TOLIMA DEPARTMENT, 130 KM SOUTHWEST OF BOGOTA.

MARIO SOLORZANO MARTINEZ,
LEADER OF GUATEMALA'S DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PARTY, REPORTED TODAY THAT THE
SALVADORAN POLITICAL LEADER [HECTOR OQUELI]1, WHO WAS KIDNAPPED IN GUATEMALA,
WAS FOUND DEAD.

   OQUELI'S BODY WAS FOUND NEXT TO THE BODY OF GUATEMALAN POLITICIAN [GILDA
FLORES]2, WHO WAS TAKING HIM TO THIS CITY'S AIRPORT SO THAT OQUELI COULD
TRAVEL TO NICARAGUA.

   SOLORZANO MARTINEZ TOLD NOTIMEX THAT , BECAUSE OF THE SHORT PERIOD OF TIME
OQUELI WAS IN GUATEMALA--LESS THAN 24 HOURS--THE ONLY EXPLANATION IS THAT
THERE ARE GROUPS LINKED TO THE SALVADORAN PARAMILITARY SQUADRONS IN THE
COUNTRY.

THE NEW FMLN (FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL
LIBERATION FRONT) PROPOSAL TO STOP FIGHTING PROVIDED THE U.S. CONGRESS
SUSPENDS AID TO EL SALVADOR IS BLACKMAIL.  WITH THIS, HE SAID, THE FMLN IS
SHOWING TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY THAT ITS MEMBERS ARE PLAIN TERRORISTS.

   THIS WAS SAID ON 12 JANUARY BY THE RULING NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE
PRESIDENT DR ARMANDO CALDERON SOL, WHO MAINTAINED THAT ASPIRATIONS OF THE
SUBSERSIVES ARE "DETESTABLE," AND, THEREFORE, CANNOT BE ACCEPTED.

   THE PROMINENT POLITICAL LEADER SAID THAT WHILE IN EAST EUROPE THERE IS A
TRUE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION, THE FMLN MAINTAINS ITS POSITION OF TRYING TO
SUBDUE THE PEOPLE WITH A TOTALITARIAN PLAN THROUGH VIOLENT MEANS.  "HISTORY
HAS LEFT THEM BEHIND AND THEY (THE TERRORISTS) HAVE NOT NOTICED IT," HE
ADDED.

   CALDERON SOL EMPHASIZED THAT FMLN LEADERS SHOULD RECONSIDER THE POSITION
THEY HAVE MAINTAINED AND SHOULD RESPECT THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM BECAUSE WITHOUT
IT, NO NATION CAN ACHIEVE HARMONY AND DEVELOPMENT.

   THE SEDITIOUS "SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE ALONE AND THAT NO ONE
SUPPORTS THEIR ANARCHIC PLAN," THE ARENA PRESIDENT ADDED.  HE RECALLED THAT
DURING THE TERRORIST AGGRESSION, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SUPORTED THE
ALFREDO CRISTIANI GOVERNMENT AND THE FMLN NEVER RECEIVED ANY SUPPORT.

   CALDERON SOL STRESSED THAT THE FMLN MUST PROVIDE REAL PROOF THAT IT WANTS
TO REACH PEACE THROUGH NEGOTIATED MEANS, BECAUSE PRESIDENT CRISTIANI HAS GOOD
INTENTIONS AND WANTS TO SOLVE THE CONFLICT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THROUGH TALKS.

   THE SUBVERSIVES MUST SUSPEND THE AGGRESSION AGAINST THE PEOPLE AND THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY, BECAUSE ONE CANNOT BE AT THE
NEGOTIATING TABLE WHILE THE FMLN AT THE SAME TIME IS PREPARING AN OFFENSIVE.

ARMANDO CALDERON SOL,
PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE (ARENA), THE RULING
SALVADORAN PARTY, TODAY CALLED FOR AN INVESTIGATION INTO ANY POSSIBLE
CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MILITARY PERSONNEL IMPLICATED IN THE ASSASSINATION
OF JESUIT PRIESTS AND THE [SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS]1.

   "IT IS SOMETHING SO HORRENDOUS, SO MONSTROUS, THAT WE MUST INVESTIGATE THE
POSSIBILITY THAT THE [FMLN]1 ([FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT]1) STAGED
THIS ASSASSINATION TO DISCREDIT THE GOVERNMENT," CALDERON SOL SAID.

   SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI IMPLICATED [FOUR OFFICERS]1, INCLUDING
[ONE COLONEL]1, AND [FIVE MEMBERS OF THE [ARMED FORCES]1]1 IN THE ASSASSINATION OF
SIX JESUIT PRIESTS AND TWO WOMEN ON 16 NOVEMBER AT THE CENTRAL AMERICAN
UNIVERSITY.

   ACCORDING TO CALDERON SOL, THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT "IS DUTYBOUND TO
UNCOVER THE MURDERERS OF THE JESUITS AND TO SEE IF THERE IS ANY LINK BETWEEN
THE SOLDIERS INVOLVED AND THE [FMLN]1."

   "THOSE RESPONSIBLE ACTED ON THEIR OWN, TO CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR THE CRISTIANI
GOVERNMENT AND DISCREDIT IT.  IT COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE AN ISOLATED ACT.
INVESTIGATIONS ARE POINTING TO SOME KIND OF CONSPIRACY," THE PRESIDENT OF
THE RIGHTIST ARENA PARTY SAID.

   IN ADDITION, CALDERON SOL ASKED THE GOVERNMENTS OF EL SALVADOR AND
GUATEMALA TO CARRY OUT AN "EXHAUSTIVE" INVESTIGATION TO ENSURE THAT THE
MURDER OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC LEADER [HECTOR OQUELI COLINDRES]2 "DOES NOT GO
UNPUNISHED."

   CALDERON NOTED THAT "OQUELI HAD CLEARLY RENOUNCED THE POSITION OF ARMED
STRUGGLE IN FAVOR OF A PROGRAM FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION."

   OQUELI COLINDRES, A SALVADORAN LEADER OF THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL, WAS
FOUND DEAD ALONG WITH [GILDA FLORES]2, A MEMBER OF THE GUATEMALAN SOCIAL
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, ON 13 JANUARY IN A TOWN IN SOUTHEASTERN GUATEMALA NEAR THE
SALVADORAN BORDER.

THE PERUVIAN POLICE HAVE REPORTED THAT
AN ATTACK WITH EXPLOSIVES IN FRONT OF A [[BUILDING]1 WHERE U.S. DIPLOMATS
RESIDE]1 IN THE MIRAFLORES NEIGHBORHOOD IN LIMA HAS LEFT ONE PERSON INJURED.

   THE TERRORIST ATTACK WAS LAUNCHED FROM A MOVING VEHICLE, FROM WHICH
[UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUALS]1 THREW [THREE [[DYNAMITE]1 CHARGES]1]1 THAT INJURED A
PASSERBY AND DAMAGED THE FRONT OF THE [BUILDING]1, ACCORDING TO THE POLICE. 

   THE POLICE SOURCE INDICATED THAT THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CRIME HAVE NOT
YET BEEN IDENTIFIED.  THE SOURCE NOTED THAT IN 1984, THE FIRST ATTACK ON
U.S. INTERESTS WAS CARRIED OUT BY THE GUEVARIST TUPAC AMARU REVOLUTIONARY
MOVEMENT, WHEN ACTIVISTS FROM THAT GROUP FIRED AT THE FRONT OF THE U.S.
EMBASSY IN DOWNTOWN LIMA.

   A CAR BOMB EXPLODED IN FRONT OF THE U.S. EMBASSY RESIDENCE IN THE PERUVIAN
CAPITAL 3 YEARS LATER, AND AFTER THAT, EXPLOSIVES WERE HURLED AT THE DOOR OF
A HOUSE IN THE SAN BORJA NEIGHBORHOOD, WHERE U.S. MARINES RESIDED.

[TEN TERRORISTS]1
HURLED [[DYNAMITE]1 STICKS]1 AT U.S.  [EMBASSY FACILITIES]1 IN THE MIRAFLORES
DISTRICT, CAUSING SERIOUS DAMAGE BUT FORTUNATELY NO CASUALTIES.  THE
ATTACK TOOK PLACE AT 2100 ON 15 JANUARY (0100 GMT ON 16 JAN).

   INSIDE THE FACILITY, WHICH WAS GUARDED BY 3 SECURITY OFFICERS, A GROUP OF
EMBASSY OFFICIALS WERE HOLDING A WORK MEETING.

   ACCORDING TO THE FIRST POLICE REPORTS, THE ATTACK WAS STAGED BY [10
TERRORISTS]1 WHO USED 2 TOYOTA CARS WHICH WERE LATER ABANDONED.  ONE OF THE
VEHICLES WAS LEFT ON THE THIRD BLOCK OF JOSE PARDO AVENUE, WHILE THE OTHER
WAS LEFT ON THE FIRST BLOCK OF BELLA VISTA STREET IN MIRAFLORES.

ACCORDING TO MILITARY SOURCES
AND PEOPLE WHO ARRIVED TODAY IN AYACUCHO FROM THE LA MAR AREA, 44
PEASANTS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN TWO TOWNSHIPS OF LA MAR PROVINCE,
AYACUCHO DEPARTMENT.

   YESTERDAY A [[COLUMN OF [[SHINING PATH]1]2 TERRORISTS]1]2 ARRIVED IN THE
VILLAGE OF CHINCHIPE, IN THE JUNGLE PROVINCE OF LA MAR, AND SHOT 16
PEASANTS WHO WERE MEMBERS OF THE PEASANT PATROLS THAT OPPOSE THE
TERRORISTS.

   THE [[[[SHINING PATH]1]2 GUERRILLAS]1]2, WHO BURNED MURDERED PEASANTS' [HOUSES]2,
CHARGED THEM WITH COLLABORATING WITH THE ARMY.  THE TOWN OF CHINCHIPE
IS 220 KM NORTH OF AYACUCHO.

   TRAVELLERS ARRIVING FROM LA MAR PROVINCE SAID THAT ON 23 SEPTEMBER
28 BODIES OF ALLEGED PEASANTS WERE FOUND NEAR THE TOWN OF CHULLAS.

   THE BODIES SHOWED SIGNS OF [TORTURE]3 AND BULLET WOUNDS BUT THE
IDENTITY OF THE [MURDERERS]3 APPARENTLY COULD NOT BE DETERMINED.

A BOMB EXPLODED IN A PILMAIQUEN ALLEY
DESTROYING WINDOWS AND [WATER PIPES]1.

   ACCORDING TO UNOFFICIAL REPORTS, THE BOMB CONTAINED [125 TO 150 GRAMS OF
TNT]1 AND WAS PLACED IN THE BACK OF THE [PILMAIQUEN [TELEPHONE COMPANY
BUILDING]1]1.

   THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED AT 2350 ON 16 JANUARY, CAUSING PANIC BUT NO
CASUALTIES.

   THE EXPLOSION BROKE WINDOWS OF THE [TELEPHONE COMPANY OFFICES]1.  IT ALSO
DESTROYED A [PUBLIC TELEPHONE BOOTH]1 AND [WATER PIPES]1.

   WITNESSES REPORTED THAT THE BOMB WAS PLANTED BY [[TWO INDIVIDUALS]1 WEARING
SPORTS CLOTHES]1, WHO ESCAPED INTO THE NIGHT.  SECURITY PERSONNEL ARE
PREPARING SKETCHES OF THE SUSPECTS BASED ON EYEWITNESS DESCRIPTIONS.

MILITARY SOURCES FROM AYACUCHO
HAVE REPORTED TO EFE THAT THREE OFFICERS AND SEVEN SOLDIERS OF THE
PERUVIAN ARMY, AND 15 MEMBERS OF THE MAOIST GUERRILLA SHINING PATH
MOVEMENT TODAY DIED IN COMBAT, IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HUANCAVELICA.

   THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE ARMY AND THE "SHINING PATH" MEMBERS
TOOK PLACE NEAR A MINE IN THE ANDEAN MOUNTAINS LOCATED AT AN ALTITUDE
OF 4,000 METERS, IN THE DISTRICT OF HUACHOCOLPA, SOME 30 KM SOUTH OF
HUANCAVELICA, CAPITAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE SAME NAME.

   AYACUCHO IS THE BASE OF THE MILITARY COMMAND THAT CONTROLS
HUANCAVELICA AND APURIMAC DEPARTMENTS, DUE TO THE "SHINING PATH"
ACTIVITIES.

   A COMMUNIQUE RELEASED BY THE MILITARY COMMAND STATES THAT ON 20
SEPTEMBER, TWO SHINING PATH MEMBERS DIED IN ANOTHER CLASH, IN THE UCRO
SECTOR, IN THE NORTHERN PART OF AYACUCHO DISTRICT.

THREE WOMEN SURVIVORS HAVE REPORTED
TO THE COURTS IN THE PERUVIAN CITY OF AYACUCHO REGARDING THE
MASSACRE--FOR WHICH THEY HOLD THE [[[ARMY]1]2]3 RESPONSIBLE--OF NEARLY 80
PEOPLE, INCLUDING MISSING PEOPLE, IN THE TOWN OF CAYARA.

   ACCORDING TO THE REPORT, [[[[[[SOLDIERS]1]2]3 WITH THEIR FACES PAINTED BLACK]1]2]3
ARRIVED IN CAYARA LAST SATURDAY AND "BROKE DOWN DOORS, LOOTED [STORES]2,
AND BURNED SEVERAL [HOUSES]3."

   THE MEN OF CAYARA WERE ROUNDED UP AT THE TOWN CHURCH.  THE REPORT
ADDED: "THERE WAS NOTHING WE COULD DO.  WE HEARD HORRIBLE GROANS OF
PAIN AND DESPERATION.  THUS, IT CAN BE DEDUCED THAT THEY WERE KILLED
AFTER BEING MERCILESSLY TORTURED."

   LATER, THE [[[SOLDIERS]1]2]3 ROUNDED UP PEASANTS FROM THE CAYARA AREA "AND,
AFTER FORCING THE MEN AND WOMEN TO LIE PRONE IN SEPARATE ROWS, KILLED
THE MEN ONE BY ONE."

   THE [[[SOLDIERS]1]2]3 USED [MACHETES, AXES]1, AND [FIREARMS]1 FOR THE KILLINGS.

   THE THREE WOMEN SUPPLIED A LIST OF 57 PEOPLE WHO WERE KILLED IN THE
MASSACRE AND 18 WHO ARE MISSING, INCLUDING A 20-YEAR-OLD NURSE.

   A PICTURE OF THIS NURSE, MARTHA CRISOSTOMO GARCIA, APPEARS ON THE
FRONT PAGE OF TODAY'S LA REPUBLICA, WITH A REQUEST FOR "SOMEONE TO
PROVIDE INFORMATION ON HER."

   CAYARA IS A TOWN IN AYACUCHO DEPARTMENT, IN SOUTHERN PERU.  IT WAS
THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE ARMED ACTIVITIES OF THE MAOIST SHINING PATH
GUERRILLAS IN 1980.  CAYARA IS 80 KM FROM ACCOMARCA, WHERE AN [[[ARMY]1]2]3
PATROL REPORTEDLY KILLED 69 PEASANTS, INCLUDING MEN, WOMEN, AND
CHILDREN, AND BURNED THEIR HOMES IN 1985.

   LAST FRIDAY, THE SHINING PATH AMBUSHED AN [[[ARMY]1]2]3 PATROL, KILLING 1
OFFICER AND 3 NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND INJURING 15 [[[SOLDIERS]1]2]3, 4 OF
THEM SERIOUSLY.  SIX SHINING PATH TERRORISTS WERE ALSO KILLED.

   AN OFFICIAL [[[ARMY]1]2]3 COMMUNIQUE REPORTED THAT THE SHINING PATH
TERRORISTS ESCAPED TOWARD CAYARA, WHICH, ACCORDING TO THIS COMMUNIQUE,
HAD BEEN ABANDONED, THAT ONLY SOME OLD PEOPLE AND CHILDREN LIVED IN
CAYARA, AND THAT FOUR BODIES WERE FOUND IN THE CHURCH.

   JAVIER DIEZ CANSECO, A LEFTIST SENATOR, SAID THE MASSACRE WAS IN
REPRISAL FOR LAST FRIDAY'S AMBUSH.

   THE OPPOSITION HAS ASKED THAT AN INVESTIGATING COMMISSION BE
FORMED.  ALTHOUGH THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN DISCUSSED IN CONGRESS, DEBATE
HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT MONDAY.

   THE GOVERNMENT SAID IT DOES NOT OPPOSE THE APPOINTMENT OF A
COMMISSION.  "HOWEVER, WE CANNOT YIELD TO AN OPPOSITION WHIM,"
GOVERNMENT-PAY CONGRESSMEN SAID.

   EL NACIONAL HAS PUBLISHED A LIST OF 47 PEOPLE KILLED AND 50 PEOPLE
MISSING.  THE NEWSPAPER CLAIMS THAT AT LEAST 100 [[[SOLDIERS]1]2]3 "SEPARATED
THE MEN AND WOMEN AND KILLED THE MEN INSIDE THE CHURCH."

JUSTICE MINISTER JULIO ALFREDO SAMAYOA
SAID TODAY ALL THE EVIDENCE GATHERED BY THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS
COMMISSION DEMONSTRATES THAT [DR ANTONIO REGALADO]1 WAS THE PERPETRATOR OF
THE MURDER OF MSGR ROMERO.

   IN HIS CAPACITY AS CHAIRMAN OF THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMISSION,
DR JULIO ALFREDO SAMAYOA REPORTED TODAY IN DETAIL ON THE MURDER OF MSGR
[OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO]1.  DR SAMAYOA SAID TO CLARIFY THE CASE, THE COMMISSION
HAS CONDUCTED 238 MEETINGS, OVER 100 INQUIRIES, AND 21 DEPOSITIONS.  HE
ADDED THAT THE INVESTIGATION WAS CARRIED OUT UNDER THE NAME OF "OPERATION
PINEAPPLE" AND THAT IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT [MAJOR ROBERTO D'AUBUISSON]1 WAS THE
MASTERMIND AND [DR ANTONIO REGALADO]1 WAS THE PERPETRATOR.

   (BEGIN RECORDING) (SAMAYOA) THERE IS NO DOUBT.  ALL THE INVESTIGATIONS
CARRIED OUT BY THE COMMISSION POINT TO [MAJ ROBERTO D'AUBUISSON]1 AS THE
MASTERMIND.  THIS HAS TO BE PROVEN IN COURT.  HOWEVER, HE HAS PARLIAMENTARY
IMMUNITY; HE CANNOT BE BROUGHT TO COURT.  THE NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN
ALLIANCE (ARENA) HAS THE MAJORITY IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, AND ARENA IS
NOT GOING TO PERMIT A DECLARATION THAT WILL BRING HIS CASE TO COURT. (END
RECORDING)

   DR SAMAYOA ALSO SAID HE IS WILLING TO PRESENT ALL THE EVIDENCE HE HAS
ON THE CASE.  HOWEVER, HE SAID HE DID NOT TRUST THE BEHAVIOR OF THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE REPUBLIC:

   (BEGIN RECORDING) (SAMAYOA) WE WILL PRESENT THE EVIDENCE.  I THINK THEY
ARE GOING TO BE SORRY THEY MADE THAT REQUEST, BECAUSE MANY PERSONS ARE
INVOLVED.  SINCE THEIR PARTICIPATION HAS NOT YET BEEN PROVEN, THESE NAMES
HAVE NOT YET BEEN RELEASED.  HOWEVER, WHEN WE PRESENT THE ENTIRE DOSSIER TO
THE COURTS, THESE NAMES ARE GOING TO COME UP.  THEN SOME WILL JUDGE AND
DECIDE IF THEY PARTICIPATED OR NOT.  BUT THEIR NAMES ARE THERE, AS ARE
THEIR ACTIVITIES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO THE DEATH SQUADS.  MANY
PERSONS WHO ARE MENTIONED ARE APPARENTLY RESPECTABLE, AND I MEAN
RESPECTABLE IN QUOTES.  (END RECORDING)

   THE ASSASSINATION OF MSGR [OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO]1 TOOK PLACE ON 24 MARCH
1980; ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL, THE INVESTIGATIONS HAVE TAKEN 9 YEARS
BECAUSE MANY PERSONS CONSIDERED KEY WITNESSES HAVE DIED SINCE THE TIME OF
THE MURDER.  HOWEVER, HE ADDED, WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE FBI AS WELL AS
SOME CENTRAL AMERICAN INVESTIGATION ORGANIZATIONS, THE CASE HAS BEEN
CLARIFIED, WHICH MIGHT LEAD TO THE IMPRISONMENT OF MAJ D'AUBUISSON ONCE HE
LOSES HIS PARLIAMENTARY IMMUNITY.

THE PUBLIC SECURITY FORCES (FUSEP) HAVE
DECLARED A STATE OF MAXIMUM ALERT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY IN VIEW OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUBVERSIVE ATTACKS ON POLICE STATIONS, A SPOKESMAN FOR THAT
INSTITUTION HAS REPORTED.

   THE ALERT STATUS HAS BEEN IN EFFECT SINCE LAST THURSDAY, WHEN FUSEP
STAFF COMMANDER COLONEL CRISTOBAL SIMON ROMERRO SENT NOTICE TO COMMANDERS
AND REGIONAL AND SUBREGIONAL POSTS ALERTING THEM ABOUT THE DANGER OF
LEFTIST ATTACKS.

   A POLICE SPOKESMAN HAS SAID THE FUSEP HAS INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION ON
LEFTIST PLANS TO ATTACK POLICE STATIONS.

   THE SOURCE REPORTED THAT A STATE OF MAXIMUM ALERT WILL BE IN EFFECT
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, ADDING THAT THE POLICE HAVE STRATEGIC PLANS TO
RESPOND TO ANY ATTACKS.

   THERE IS NO REPORT ON WHETHER OR NOT THE ARMY IS ALSO ON A STATE OF
ALERT.  YESTERDAY, PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO MOVE ABOUT AS USUAL IN SOUTHERN
TEGUCIGALPA, WHERE SOME ARMY COMBAT UNITS ARE HEADQUARTERED.

   THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DECLARED THE STATE OF ALERT AS A RESULT OF A WAVE
OF VIOLENCE THAT BEGAN WITH THE KILLING OF THREE PEOPLE IN JANUARY.

   NICARAGUAN CONTRA COMMANDER MANUEL ADAN RUGAMA, ALIAS AURELIANO, WAS
SHOT TO DEATH IN NORTHERN TEGUCIGALPA ON 7 JANUARY, AND ATTORNEY [CARLOS
LORENZANA]1, WHO DEFENDED JUAN RAMON MATTA IN HONDURAS, WAS SHOT TO DEATH
NEAR HIS [RESIDENCE]3 IN THE MODELO NEIGHBORHOOD BY UNIDENTIFIED ASSAILANTS.
NONE OF THESE CRIMES HAS BEEN SOLVED BY THE POLICE.

   ON 25 JANUARY, ALLEGED [COMMANDOS]2 OF THE "[CINCHONERO" PEOPLE'S LIBERATION
FRONT]2 MACHINEGUNNED RETIRED GENERAL [GUSTAVO ALVAREZ MARTINEZ]2, A FORMER
ARMED FORCES COMMANDER.  ALVAREZ MARTINEZ WAS KILLED NEAR HIS [RESIDENCE]3 IN
TEGUCIGALPA'S FLORENCIA DEL ESTE NEIGHBORHOOD.  THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY THE
[[RESIDENCE]3 OF THE NICARAGUAN AMBASSADOR IN THIS CAPITAL]3 WAS ATTACKED.

   THIS PAST WEDNESDAY [UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE]3 FIRED ON A U.S. MILITARY CONVOY
IN YORO DEPARTMENT.  MILITARY SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT SPECIAL TROOPS ARE
COMBING THE AREA.

[[TWO INDIVIDUALS]1 WEARING MILITARY
UNIFORMS AND CARRYING [SUBMACHINEGUNS]1]1 EARLY THIS MORNING ENTERED THE [[INFANT
HEALTH CENTER]1 OF MERCEDES]1, 240 KM FROM CORRIENTES, AND TOOK LARGE
QUANTITIES OF BLOOD, SERUM AND MEDICINE.

   THIS INFORMATION AS CONFIRMED BY MAYOR JOSE ALBERTO TRONCOSO WHO
ALERTED THE POPULATION TO PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION ON THE INDIVIDUALS.
POLICE FORCES HAVE BEEN DEPLOYED AROUND MERCEDES TO PREVENT THEIR ESCAPE.

ALFREDO CRISTIANI, PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE OF THE SALVADORAN NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE (ARENA),
WARNED TODAY THAT HE IS NOT WILLING TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE FARABUNDO
MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) IF HE WINS THE UPCOMING 19
MARCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.

   CRISTIANI SAID: "WE ARE WILLING TO TALK BUT NOT TO NEGOTIATE ANY
PLATFORM."  CRISTIANI WARNED THAT IF THE REBELS DO NOT LAY DOWN THEIR
WEAPONS AND JOIN THE COUNTRY'S POLITICAL LIFE, "THE BEST THING FOR
THEM TO DO IS TO LEAVE FOR NICARAGUA OR CUBA."

   AS SOMEONE WHO IS CONSIDERED CERTAIN TO BECOME THE NEXT SALVADORAN
PRESIDENT, CRISTIANI RECEIVED AN OVATION FROM A CHEERING CROWD THAT
GATHERED AT LA LIBERTAD SQUARE IN SAN SALVADOR, WHERE ARENA HELD ITS
LAST MAJOR DEMONSTRATION IN SAN SALVADOR.

   CRISTIANI ADDED: "WE WILL NEVER LET THEM ATTAIN POWER BY MEANS OF
RIFLES."

   THE ARENA CANDIDATE, WHO IS FAVORED TO WIN THE SALVADORAN
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, ASSERTED THAT ONCE HE ATTAINS POWER, HE WILL
GIVE FULL SUPPORT TO THE ARMY AND THE SECURITY FORCES "SO THEY CAN PUT
AN END TO THE VIOLENCE IN THE COUNTRY."

   CRISTIANI, A WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN, ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT IF HE WINS
THE ELECTIONS HE WILL PUT AN END TO THE NATIONALIZATION OF THE BANKING
SECTOR AND FOREIGN TRADE ACTIVITIES, THE MAIN PILLARS OF A PLAN WHOSE
IMPLEMENTATION BEGAN AFTER THE COUNTRY'S 1979 COUP D'ETAT.  PRESIDENT
DUARTE KEPT THIS PLAN ALIVE AND THE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM INTACT
DURING HIS PRESIDENTIAL TERM.

   "WE WILL DO AWAY WITH INCAFE (NATIONAL COFFEE INSTITUTE), WHICH HAS
STOLEN JOBS FROM HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SALVADORAN PRODUCERS," THE
ARENA LEADER SAID, ADDING: "WE DO NOT WANT A BANKING OR A BUSINESS
GOVERNMENT."

   CRISTIANI, HOWEVER, DID NOT MENTION THE CURRENT AGRARIAN REFORM,
THROUGH WHICH YOUNG MILITARY MEN WHO LED THE 1979 COUP D'ETAT INTENDED
TO BREAK THE BACK OF THE OLIGARCHY.

   THOUSANDS OF SALVADORANS, MOSTLY FROM THE UPPER AND MIDDLE CLASSES,
MARCHED ALONG THE MAIN SAN SALVADOR STREETS TODAY TO LA LIBERTAD
SQUARE, WHICH WAS FILLED WITH ARENA POSTERS AND RED, WHITE, AND BLUE
ARENA FLAGS.

   ARENA'S CRISTIANI SAID: "WE WILL ELIMINATE THE UNEMPLOYMENT
PROBLEM.  WE WILL BUILD ROADS AND INCREASE PRODUCTION.  WE WILL PROVIDE
THE MOST NEEDY WITH HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND ALL OTHER SERVICES."

   MEANWHILE, THOUSANDS OF YOUTHS CHEERED FOR CRISTIANI AND DANCED IN
LA LIBERTAD SQUARE TO SONGS RIDICULING ARENA'S MAIN OPPOSITION IN THE
ELECTIONS, THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDC), WHICH IS CURRENTLY IN
POWER.

   ROBERTO D'AUBUISSON, ARENA FOUNDER AND FORMER PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE, DENOUNCED THE UNITED STATES, WHICH HE ACCUSED OF SPONSORING
THE PDC.

   D'AUBUISSON, WHOM THE PDC HAS ACCUSED OF BEING THE "BRAINS BEHIND"
THE MARCH 1980 ASSASSINATION OF MSGR OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO, SAID:
"WHETHER THE WHITE BLONDS (CHELES) LIKE IT OR NOT, WE WILL WIN THE
ELECTIONS 10 YEARS AFTER THE 1979 FATAL COUP D'ETAT."

   D'AUBUISSON HARSHLY ATTACKED PRESIDENT DUARTE, WHO IS SUFFERING
FROM TERMINAL CANCER, AND REFERRED TO HIM AS "THE CRAZY AND WORN OUT
DUARTE."

   CRISTIANI IS WILLING TO TALK WITH THE FMLN, BUT ONLY WITHIN THE
FRAMEWORK OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE LAW.  D'AUBUISSON SAID: "WE WILL
GIVE THEM TIME TO JOIN THE COUNTRY'S DEMOCRATIC LIFE, LITTLE BY
LITTLE."

   ARENA'S MEETING, WHICH ACCORDING TO ITS ORGANIZERS DREW A CROWD OF
40,000 SUPPORTERS, ENDED WITHOUT INCIDENT TONIGHT.

A [[BOMB]1 BLAST]1 DAMAGED A [TELEPHONE
OFFICE]1 TODAY IN THE NORTHERN CITY OF SAN PEDRO SULA.  A [LEFTIST GROUP]1,
WHICH CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR AN ATTACK ON A U.S. MILITARY CONVOY LAST
WEEK CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS ATTACK.

   THE [BOMB]1, MADE UP OF [DYNAMITE AND A FUSE]1, EXPLODED JUST BEFORE DAWN IN
THE HONDUTEL (HONDURAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENTERPRISE) OFFICE IN SAN PEDRO
SULA, 190 KM NORTH OF THIS CAPITAL.

   THE EXPLOSION DAMAGED FURNITURE, FOUR TELEPHONES, AND SHATTERED
WINDOWS, BUT NOBODY WAS INJURED.

   LEAFLETS FOUND IN THE RUBBLE STATED THAT A [LEFTIST GROUP]1 WAS RESPONSIBLE
BOTH FOR THE [BOMB]1 AS WELL AS THE ATTACK ON A U.S. MILITARY CONVOY LAST WEEK
IN THE HONDURAN NORTHERN MOUNTAIN REGION.

   ALTHOUGH NO CASUALTIES WERE REPORTED, ONE OF THE VEHICLES IN THE U.S.
CONVOY WAS HIT BY TWO BULLETS.  UNTIL TODAY NOBODY HAD CLAIMED CREDIT FOR
THAT ATTACK.

   "THE [JACOBO CARCOMO COMMAND]1 OF THE [MORAZANIST PATRIOTIC FRONT]1 ([FPM]1)
ATTACKED A U.S. CONVOY WITH M-16 RIFLE-FIRE," THE LEAFLETS READ.  CARCOMO
WAS A HONDURAN LEFT-WING AUTHOR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY.

   THE [FPM]1, NAMED AFTER A CENTRAL AMERICAN LEADER OF THE LAST CENTURY, HAS
CLAIMED CREDIT FOR SEVERAL GUERRILLA ATTACKS IN THE PAST.

   HONDURAS HAS BEEN GRIPPED BY A WAVE OF VIOLENCE THIS YEAR, INCLUDING THE
ASSASSINATIONS OF A FORMER ARMED FORCES COMMANDER, A COMMANDER OF THE
ANTI-SANDINIST REBELS (SUPPORTED BY THE UNITED STATES), AND A LAWYER OF AN
ALLEGED DRUG TRAFFICKING TSAR.

   PRESIDENT JOSE AZCONA HAS CALLED FOR NATIONAL DIALOGUE STARTING THIS
WEEK WITH THE GOVERNMENT, THE OPPOSITION PARTIES, LABOR UNIONS,
BUSINESSMEN, AND OTHER GROUPS TO TRY TO CURB THE SUDDEN SURGE OF VIOLENCE.

   HONDURAS, A CLOSE U.S. ALLY, HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN A PEACEFUL COUNTRY
IN A REGION STRICKEN BY INTERNAL CONFLICTS.

TWO [VEHICLES]1 WERE DESTROYED AND AN
[UNIDENTIFIED OFFICE OF THE AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK MINISTRY]1 WAS HEAVILY
DAMAGED FOLLOWING THE EXPLOSION OF TWO [BOMBS]1 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.

   THE NATIONAL FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT FOLLOWING THE EXPLOSIONS AT
1830, A FIRE ERUPTED THAT PARTIALLY DESTROYED AN [UNIDENTIFIED OFFICE IN THE
AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK MINISTRY BUILDING]1.  IT WAS REPORTED THAT TWO
[VEHICLES]1 IN THE AREA WHERE THE [BOMBS]1 WERE DETONATED WERE DESTROYED AND
SEVERAL [HOUSES]1 IN THE AREA WERE DAMAGED.  THE DAMAGED OFFICES ARE LOCATED
AT 123 A AVENUE IN THE SAN JOSE NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE WESTERN SECTION OF SAN
SALVADOR.

   FORTUNATELY, THERE WERE NO CASUALTIES REPORTED AS A RESULT OF THIS
INCIDENT, FOR WHICH THE [FMLN]1 [GUERRILLAS]1 ARE BEING HELD RESPONSIBLE.

THE NICARAGUAN FOREIGN MINISTRY HAS
DENIED THE CHARGES THAT THE HONDURAN GOVERNMENT HAS LEVELED AGAINST THE
[NICARAGUAN EMBASSY]2 IN TEGUCIGALPA REGARDING THE 7 JANUARY ASSASSINATION IN
TEGUCIGALPA OF [MANUEL RUGAMA]1, KNOWN AS COMMANDER AURELIANO, THE SECOND IN
COMMAND OF THE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES IN HONDURAS.

   HONDURAN NATIONAL POLICE ON MONDAY PRESENTED TO THE PRESS HONDURAN JUAN
BAUTISTA NUNEZ AMADOR AND NICARAGUAN LUIS FERNANDO ORDONEZ REYES, WHO TOLD
REPORTERS THAT COMMANDER AURELIANO WAS ASSASSINATED ON ORDERS FROM JOSE DE
JESUS PENA, THE [NICARAGUAN EMBASSY]2 CHIEF OF SECURITY.

   MERCEDES BORGE, PRESS DIRECTOR AT THE NICARAGUAN FOREIGN MINISTRY, SAID
THERE IS NO JOSE DE JESUS PENA EMPLOYED AT THE [NICARAGUAN EMBASSY]2 IN
TEGUCIGALPA AND THAT AURELIANO'S ASSASSINATION WAS PERPETRATED BY [THREE
INDIVIDUALS]1 AND NOT TWO, AS THE HONDURAN POLICE CLAIM.  BORGE SAID THAT
WHILE NICARAGUA MAKES SERIOUS AND FORMAL PROPOSALS TO ADVANCE PEACE
EFFORTS, IT IS WORRISOME THAT HONDURAN MILITARY PERSONNEL ARE CREATING
SITUATIONS THAT COULD UNLEASH CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.  THERE
HAVE ALREADY BEEN TWO ATTACKS ON THE [NICARAGUAN EMBASSY]2 IN TEGUCIGALPA,
BORGE SAID.  SHE ADDED THAT THE HONDURAN POLICE REPORT CONFLICTS WITH THE
AUTOPSY REPORT, BECAUSE IN HIS STATEMENT, NUNEZ AMADOR REFERRED TO ONLY A
.38-CALIBER REVOLVER AND A .45-CALIBER PISTOL, WHICH WERE NOT FOUND ON
RUGAMA'S BODY OR IN HIS VEHICLE.

THE FMLN GENERAL
COMMAND WILL SOON PRESENT A NEW PEACE PROPOSAL TO ARENA AND THEREFORE
CALLS FOR THE FORMATION OF A BROAD COALITION TO FACE THE NEW
GOVERNMENT, A COALITION TO INCLUDE THE PDC, WHICH IS NOW AN OPPOSITION
PARTY AFTER HAVING LOST THE ELECTIONS.

   FMLN COMMANDERS ANA GUADUALUPE MARTINEZ, SALVADOR SAMAYOA, AND JOSE
MARIA LOPEZ READ THE FMLN COMMUNIQUE AND SAID THAT ARENA'S REACHING POWER
DEFINITELY "MEANS THAT THE OLIGARCHY WILL REJOIN THE MILITARY
DICTATORSHIP."

   THE COMMANDERS ALSO EVALUATED THE LAST 5 YEARS OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST
THE DUARTE GOVERNMENT IN EL SALVADOR:

   SALVADOR SAMAYOA SAID:  "THE LAST 5 YEARS HAVE BEEN THE MOST
DIFFICULT.  THE ONLY GOOD THING IS THAT AFTER THE ELECTIONS, WE ARE CLOSER
TO DEFINING THE CONFLICT IN EL SALVADOR.

   "IT HAS BEEN A LONG AND DIFFICULT WAR.  THE ENEMY WAS ILL-DEFINED,
ENJOYING CERTAIN POPULARITY AMONG THE PEOPLE, MAKING IT EASIER FOR THEM TO
TRY AND PERSUADE THEM THAT OUR REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE WAS A TERRORIST WAR
WHEN THIS WAS NOT THE CASE."

   ANA GUADALUPE MARTINEZ SAID:

   "I BELIEVE THAT THE EVENTS THAT BEGAN IN 1981 ARE COMING FULL CIRCLE
NOW, BUT NOW THERE ARE MANY ADVANTAGES.

   "THE PDC EMERGED FROM A POPULAR STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DICTATORSHIP.  NOW
THEY ARE IN OPPOSITION AND CAN DEAL WITH THE REST OF THE OPPOSITION AS
EQUALS, AND THAT IS AN ADVANTAGE FOR US.

   "THE SPLIT WITHIN THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE IS FOR THE BETTER.  I BELIEVE WE
ARE NOW IN THE FINAL STAGES."

   WHEN MARTINEZ WAS ASKED HOW SHE WOULD DESCRIBE THE PDC'S ROLE IN EL
SALVADOR DURING THE LAST 5 YEARS, SHE REPLIED:

   "THE PDC PLAYED A VERY NEGATIVE ROLE.  IT PROLONGED THE WAR THAT WOULD
HAVE OTHERWISE BEEN VERY MUCH SHORTER, BUT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE PDC MAY
DEVIATE FROM THEIR PAST BEHAVIOR AND PLAY A DIFFERENT ROLE THAN THE
OPPOSITION, FAVORING A SOLUTION TO THE CONFLICT."

   THE FMLN COMMANDERS BELIEVED THAT ARENA'S VICTORY WILL BRING BACK THE
DEATH SQUADS.  THE FMLN COMMANDERS BELIEVE THAT NOW THE POSSIBILITY OF A
MILITARY COUP IS GREATER.

   CONTRARY TO WHAT MIGHT BE BELIEVED, THE FMLN COMANDERS SAID:  "WE DO
NOT SEE A STRONG RIGHT WING.  WE SEE THEM MORE TRAPPED POLITICALLY AND
ECONOMICALLY."  THE COMMANDERS ALSO ARGUED THAT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO FACE
THE SAME OLIGARCHY AND ARMY THEY FACED IN 1979.

   THE MESSAGE THEY HAVE FOR ARENA STATES:  "SEE WHAT HAS HAPPENED?  IS IT
NOT ENOUGH TO HAVE LAUNCHED A MILITARY OFFENSIVE?"

   THE COMMANDERS SAID THAT, NEVERTHELESS, THE FMLN IS READY FOR A GREAT
MILITARY EFFORT AND REITERATED THAT IF ANYTHING CLEARLY EMERGED DURING THE
LAST 2 MONTHS, IT IS THAT "WE ARE A POLITICAL MAJORITY IN EL SALVADOR."
(PASSAGE OMITTED)

ELITE UNITS OF THE GUATEMALAN
ARMY THIS AFTERNOON BEGAN TO SURROUND PAVON PRISON, WHICH SINCE 26 MARCH
HAS BEEN IN THE HANDS OF SOME 200 PRISONERS WHO ARE HOLDING MORE THAN 500
PEOPLE HOSTAGE.

   THE UNITS WERE DEPLOYED TO PAVON, 30 KM SOUTHEAST OF THE GUATEMALAN
CAPITAL, TO APPLY PRESSURE ON THE PRISONERS, WHO TODAY REFUSED TO SIGN A
DOCUMENT CONTAINING GUARANTEES DRAFTED BY THE MEDIATION COMMISSION.

   INSTEAD, THE PRISONERS PRESENTED A COUNTERPROPOSAL TO THE MEDIATION
COMMISSION--WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED BY PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO HIMSELF TO
"PREVENT BLOODSHED"--SEVERAL COMMISSION MEMBERS SAID AS THEY LEFT THE PENAL
CENTER.

   A POSSIBLE PEACEFUL SOLUTION THAT WAS HOPED FOR YESTERDAY IS AGAIN "ON
HOLD" TODAY BECAUSE OF THE REBELS' REFUSAL TO SIGN THE DOCUMENT.

   HUMAN RIGHTS ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALO MENENDEZ SAID THAT "THE SOLUTION
TO THE PROBLEM IS AGAIN AT AN IMPASSE, BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT MINISTER MUST
ANALYZE THE PRISONERS' PROPOSAL."

   THE UPRISING, WHICH BEGAN AT 1100 (1700 GMT) ON 26 MARCH AND WHICH
INCLUDES DEMANDS FOR BETTER JAIL CONDITIONS, HAS LEFT AT LEAST 12 DEAD AND
SOME 20 INJURED, ACCORDING TO POLICE SPOKESMEN.

   SOME 150 HONOR GUARD MEMBERS, "ALL EXPERTS IN DISORDERS AND UPRISINGS,"
HAVE BEEN POSITIONED NEAR THE PRISON UNDER THE COMMAND OF A LIEUTENANT
COLONEL AND FIVE OTHER OFFICERS, ACCORDING TO STATEMENTS MADE TO ACAN-EFE
BY A TOP MILITARY OFFICER, WHO ASKED TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS.

   THE ASSAULT TROOPS ARE ARMED WITH BATONS, TEAR GAS, GAS MASKS, AND
MACHINEGUNS.

   "MY MEN ARE CAPABLE OF DEALING WITH DISORDERS AND HAVE BEEN PREPARED FOR
CASES SUCH AS THIS ONE," THE MILITARY CHIEF SAID.

   THE REBELLIOUS PRISONERS, WHO HAVE CONTROL OF 65 PERCENT OF THE PRISON
INSTALLATIONS, REMAIN INFLEXIBLE AND REFUSE TO RELEASE THE HOSTAGES AND LAY
DOWN THEIR WEAPONS.

   DESPITE THE MEDIATING COMMISSION'S OPTIMISM, AFTER 72 HOURS THE
REBELLIOUS PRISONERS PRESENTED A NEW PROPOSAL TODAY AT NOON, HUMAN RIGHTS
ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALO MENENDEZ SAID.

A [BOMB]1 EXPLODED TODAY IN A LIMA
[[RESTAURANT]1]2, AND A SECOND DEVICE THAT HAD BEEN PLACED IN THE SAME
ESTABLISHMENT WAS DEACTIVATED BY THE PERUVIAN NATIONAL POLICE.

   THERE WERE NO VICTIMS, AND THE EXPLOSION CAUSED VERY LITTLE DAMAGE TO
THE [[RESTAURANT]1]2, WHICH IS LOCATED IN THE COMMERCIAL ARE OF THE RESIDENTIAL
DISTRICT OF MIRAFLORES.

   [[GUERRILLAS]1]2 OF THE [[TUPAC AMARU REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT]1]2 ([[MRTA]1]2) HAVE CLAIMED
CREDIT FOR THE TERRORIST ACT THROUGH PAMPHLETS THEY LEFT ON THE PREMISES,
ACCORDING TO THE POLICE.

ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND THREE OTHERS
INJURED TONIGHT AS THE RESULT OF A [BOMB]1 EXPLOSION IN DOWNTOWN SAN SALVADOR.
THE EXPLOSION TOOK PLACE ON FIRST AVENUE WEST, BETWEEN THE [VICAS STORE]1
AND [CENTRAL RESERVE BANK]1. (10-SECOND BREAK IN RECEPTION)

   (BEGIN RECORDING) (UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER) (WORDS INDISTINCT) WERE TAKEN
TO THE ROSALES HOSPITAL.  ONE OF THEM IS MARILIN RAMIREZ, WHO LIVES IN
SACAMIL NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE (WORD INDISTINCT) NEIGHBORHOOD, (WORDS
INDISTINCT) NO 5.  THE OTHER PERSON IS DORA MILAGROS ARGUETA MAROQUIN, WHO
LIVES IN (WORD INDISTINCT) NEIGHBORHOOD NO 15-36.  THIS PERSON WAS TAKEN
TO THE HOSPITAL BY THE GREEN CROSS.  THE OTHER PERSON IS SILVIA AYALA, WHO
LIVES IN (WORDS INDISTINCT) NO 5, TELEPHONE NUMBER 92760548. (END
RECORDING)

COMRADE SANCHO, WHY HAS THE FMLN DECIDED NOT TO
ATTEND THE CARACAS MEETING?

   (SANCHO) THE FMLN GENERAL COMMAND INSTRUCTED ME THIS AFTERNOON TO
ANNOUNCE TO THE NATION A COMMUNIQUE IN WHICH WE DECIDED NOT TO ATTEND THE
CARACAS MEETING AND DIALOGUE.  THE REASON FOR THIS IS THE RECENT FENASTRAS
MASSACRE, WHICH WE BELIEVE CANNOT BE IGNORED.  THIS IS NOT JUST ANOTHER
ATTACK, LIKE THE ONES WE ARE USED TO, BUT AN ATTACK THAT SIGNALS A NEW
POLITICAL ERA SIMILAR TO THOSE WHEN AN ELECTORAL MASSACRE OCCURRED, WHEN
MSGR ARNULFO ROMERO WAS MURDERED, WHEN OTHER CRIMES MARKED NEW STEPS IN THE
NEW FASCIST ESCALATION OF THE DICTATORSHIP NOW LED BY ALFREDO CRISTIANI,
COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE, AND THE GREAT EXECUTIONER AND PERPETRATOR OF
MASSACRES, ELENA FUENTES.  THE MAIN THING IS THAT THE FASCIST MILITARY
DICTATORSHIP, HEADED BY A SMALL ARMED FORCES GROUP, HAS BEEN EXPOSED.  WE
DO NOT THINK THIS CAN BE IGNORED.  THE STATE AND (WORDS INDISTINCT) HAVE
TO PAY A POLITICAL PRICE.  THIS PRICE IS COL PONCE'S RESIGNATION, WHICH IS
NOW DEMANDED BY THE PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT.

   (REPORTER) AFTER THE ATTACK, INSTEAD OF SEEKING A DETENTE, THE ARMY, ON
THE CONTRARY, CONTINUED ITS PROVOCATIONS.  FOR INSTANCE, SEVERAL
PLAINCLOTHES MEMBERS OF THE 1ST INFANTRY BRIGADE (WORDS INDISTINCT)
FENASTRAS AND THE POPULAR MOVEMENT TOOK THEM PRISONER.  MORE THAN 30 OF
THEM WERE DETAINED.  WE LEARNED THIS AFTERNOON THAT THE POLICE RELEASED A
COMMUNIQUE SAYING THEY WOULD STATION ANTIRIOT POLICEMEN AT THE NATIONAL
CEMETERY.  WE ALSO HEARD COL MAURICIO VARGAS SAYING THAT, IF THE DIALOGUE
DOOR IS CLOSED, IT HAS TO BE KICKED OPEN.  WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE
SITUATION AFTER THE COWARDLY ATTACK ON FENASTRAS?

   WE THINK ALL THESE ACTIVITIES OF THE DEATH SQUADS, THE 1ST INFANTRY
BRIGADE, THE POLICE, AND THE NATIONAL GUARD ARE ONLY THE OPEN EXPRESSION
OF THE ARMED FORCES' POSITION, WHICH IS TO PLAN A FULL-SCALE CONFRONTATION
WITH THE POPULAR MOVEMENT.  WE THINK THIS INDICATES (WORDS INDISTINCT)
BEHIND THE BACKS OF THE MAJORITY OF ARMED FORCES MEMBERS.  IT IS A
MINORITY WHO HAVE DECIDED ON THESE PROVOCATIONS AGAINST THE POPULAR
MOVEMENT.  THIS MOVEMENT, HOWEVER, IS SUFFICIENTLY STRONG TO DISARM THESE
PROVOCATEURS, PRESENT THEM TO THE PRESS, AND HAND THEM OVER TO SHOW THAT
THE PEOPLE EXPRESS THEIR TREMENDOUS POWER WHENEVER THEY WANT.

   (REPORTER) WITH LA TANDONA (REFERENCE TO 1966 GRADUATES OF THE CAPTAIN
GERARDO BARRIOS MILITARY ACADEMY) IN POWER, AND WITH THE SITUATION THE
ARENA (NATIONAL REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE) ERA HAS USHERED IN, IS THERE NO
POSSIBLE SOLUTION THROUGH DIALOGUE?  WHAT OTHER ALTERNATIVE DO YOU HAVE?

   (SANCHO) I BELIEVE THAT IT IS QUITE CLEAR THAT PRESIDENT CRISTIANI AND
THE HIGH COMMAND ARE PRACTICALLY DOING AWAY WITH POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES,
AS OUR EARLIER COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AFTER THE FENASTRAS ATTACK INDICATES.
THE END RESULT IS THAT SINCE THERE IS NO POLITICAL FRAMEWORK WITHIN WHICH
TO ESTABLISH A POLITICAL GAME WITH CERTAIN POLITICAL RULES FOR THE
OPPOSITION AND STATE FORCES, OUR ONLY OTHER ALTERNATIVE IS TO IMMEDIATELY
TAKE UP OUR WEAPONS, BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER WAY OF GUARANTEEING THE
SURVIVAL OF THE POPULAR MOVEMENT AND THE NATION.  THE PEOPLE'S LEGITIMATE
RIGHT TO DEFENSE IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY LEGITIMATE, AND IT IS GAINING
GREATER NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION.

   (REPORTER) THE POPULAR MOVEMENT IS ONCE AGAIN FACING A DECISIVE MOMENT
IN THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY, AND THE WORKERS ARE GIVING THEIR SHARE OF BLOOD
IN THIS STRUGGLE.  WHAT MESSAGE WOULD YOU SEND TO THE POPULAR MOVEMENT,
ESPECIALLY TO THE COMRADE WORKERS AT FENASTRAS?

   (SANCHO) ON THIS OCCASION, I WISH TO SEND A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO
FENASTRAS.  I MUST TELL THEM TO CONTINUE TO BE INSPIRED BY THE PUREST
CONCEPTS OF THE POPULAR STRUGGLE, TO KEEP THEIR INSPIRATION, TO BE
CREATIVE AND COOL, AND THAT WHEN PEOPLE BEGIN TO CREATE THEIR OWN HISTORY,
THEY ARE TRULY INVINCIBLE.

   I BELIEVE THAT FENASTRAS HAS THE PEOPLE'S FULL SUPPORT AND THAT IT WILL
GRADUALLY GAIN EVEN MORE SUPPORT.  FENASTRAS MUST CONTINUE--AS ITS LEADERS
SAY--ON THE WARPATH.  IN REALITY, THE COST IN LIVES OF LEADERS SUCH AS FEBE
ELIZABETH AND ALL THE OTHERS WHO WERE KILLED, AS WELL AS THOSE KILLED IN
THE PAST, IS QUITE HIGH.  THE COST IS POLITICAL.  IT HAS TAKEN LIVES BUT
THIS, IN REALITY, STRENGTHENS THE ORGANIZATION.  THE PEOPLE'S RESPONSE HAS
BEEN ONE OF ANGER AND DISCONTENT, AND THIS DISCONTENT WILL EVENTUALLY TURN
INTO A CLAMOR FOR ARMED STRUGGLE BY SECTORS THAT REALLY (WORDS INDISTINCT)
AND TO ACHIEVE OUR PEOPLE'S FREEDOM. (END RECORDING)

DURING A NEWS CONFERENCE ATTENDED BY
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS, PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA SAID HERE TODAY THAT HE
SUPPORTS THE CONSTRUCTION "OF NOT ONE BUT FIVE" INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAYS
IN THE AMAZONIAN REGION.

   ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS, THE UNITED STATES PRESSURED JAPAN NOT
TO PROVIDE FINANCING FOR THE BRAZILIAN-PERUVIAN PROJECT.

   GARCIA SAID HE WAS NOT AWARE THAT U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH HAD
HELD TALKS WITH THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AT HIROHITO'S FUNERAL TO
PREVENT THE FINANCING OF THE HIGHWAY.

   SOME REPORTS SAID THAT BUSH HAD HELD TALKS WITH JAPANESE PRIME
MINISTER NOBORU TAKESHITA ON THE NEED TO PRESERVE THE NATURAL
ENVIRONMENT, ESPECIALLY THE AMAZON REGION, WHICH IS CONSIDERED THE
"WORLD'S LUNGS."

   THE PERUVIAN PRESIDENT SAID: "PRESIDENT BUSH IS A POLITICIAN WITH
WIDE EXPERIENCE.  I DO NOT BELIEVE HE SAID SUCH A THING.  IF HE DID SAY
IT, IT WOULD BE VERY SERIOUS, BECAUSE HE WOULD BE INTERVENING IN OUR
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS."

   BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT JOSE SARNEY RECENTLY SAID THAT THE CONSTRUCTION
OF THE INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY IS "A MATTER OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY."

   BRAZIL AND PERU ARE SPONSORING A PROJECT TO BUILD A HIGHWAY THROUGH
THE AMAZON REGION TO JOIN THE BRAZILIAN NORTHWESTERN STATE OF ACRE AND
THE PACIFIC OCEAN.  BOTH COUNTRIES HAVE ASKED FOR JAPAN'S FINANCIAL
SUPPORT FOR THE PROJECT.

   IN PRACTICE, THE OBJECTIVE IS TO ESTABLISH A LAND CORRIDOR BETWEEN
THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS--AN OLD PROJECT OF THE BRAZILIAN
MILITARY GEOSTRATEGISTS.

   THE BRAZILIAN MILITARY MINISTERS SUPPORTED SARNEY'S POSITION BY
ANNOUNCING THAT THEY WILL NOT ACCEPT "ANY TYPE OF FOREIGN FOREIGN
INTERFERENCE IN THE AMAZON REGION" AND THAT THEY REJECTED AS
"UNACCEPTABLE" THE ATTEMPTS TO LINK THE FOREIGN DEBT WITH INVESTMENTS
TO PRESERVE THE AMAZON FOREST.

   GARCIA INDICATED THAT IF THE UNITED STATES WANTS TO HELP PRESERVE
THE ECOLOGICAL BALANCE, IT SHOULD "SPEED UP DISARMAMENT TALKS WITH THE
SOVIET UNION."  HE ADDED THAT "THE BEST WAY TO PROTECT THE AMAZON
REGION IS TO ELIMINATE DEADLY WEAPONS AND NUCLEAR BOMBS."

   GARCIA THEN REITERATED: "I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT PRESIDENT BUSH HAS
SAID THAT, BUT IF HE SAID IT, I BELIEVE THAT IT IS A SERIOUS MATTER
AND HE SHOULD GIVE US A CONCRETE OPINION."

   GARCIA DEFENDED RELATIONS WITH BRAZIL BY SAYING: "I BELIEVE
FORTIFYING ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND GEOGRAPHIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO
COUNTRIES IS A NATIONAL OBJECTIVE."  THEN HE ADDED: "BRAZIL IS ONE OF
THE WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT COUNTRIES, AND PERU HAS WRONGLY LIVED IN
FEAR OF BRAZIL.  LET US HOPE THAT NOT ONE BUT FIVE HIGHWAYS ARE BUILT
THROUGH THE AMAZON REGION."

   SIXTY PERCENT OF PERU'S 1.3 MILLION SQUARE KILOMETERS LIE IN THE
AMAZON REGION.  THAT MAKES UP NEARLY ONE-FIFTH OF THE ENTIRE AMAZON
BASIN.

WE ARE
GOING TO GIVE YOU A REPORT ON SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED A FEW MINUTES
AGO IN THE CENTER OF SAN SALVADOR.  WE HAVE ON THE TELEPHONE A
LISTENER WHO IS GOING TO TELL US ABOUT TWO EXPLOSIONS JUST BEFORE NOON
THAT LEFT AT LEAST FIVE PERSONS WOUNDED.  PLEASE GO AHEAD WITH THE
REPORT.

   (LISTENER) SONORA LISTENERS, THIS IS A LAST MINUTE REPORT.  JUST A FEW
MINUTES AGO, AT 1130, [TWO [BOMBS]1]1 EXPLODED HERE AT THE EASTERN END OF THE
CENTRAL MARKET.  FIVE PERSONS WERE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN THIS TERRORIST
ATTACK.  THEY WERE JUST TAKEN TO THE ROSALES HOSPITAL.  THE WOUNDED INCLUDE
A CHILD AND A WOMAN.  WE DID NOT GET THEIR NAMES BECAUSE THE AUTHORITIES DID
NOT LET US DO SO.  RED CROSS PERSONNEL TOOK THE WOUNDED TO ROSALES HOSPITAL.

   THE PEOPLE AROUND HERE ARE VERY FRIGHTENED AND ARE RUNNING AROUND.  THE
PEOPLE WERE BUYING FOOD WHEN THE EXPLOSIONS OCCURRED.  THEY ARE NERVOUS AND
ARE TRYING TO QUICKLY FIND TRANSPORTATION.  THE EXPLOSIONS WERE HEARD FAR
FROM HERE.  AT THE MARKET'S EASTERN GATE, WHERE THE FRUIT STANDS ARE
LOCATED, WE WERE TOLD BY PASSERSBY THAT A MAN WORKING THERE WAS THE MOST
SERIOUSLY WOUNDED BY THE [BOMBS]1.  ALL THE WOUNDED WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL.

   THE TERRORISTS LEFT A COMMUNIQUE THAT WAS IMMEDIATELY PICKED UP BY THE
NATIONAL POLICE.

   THE PEOPLE ARE FLEEING THE MARKET.  THEY CANNOT CONTINUE SHOPPING BECAUSE
IT IS ASSUMED THIS WAS A WARNING TO KEEP THE PEOPLE FROM GOING OUT OR GOING
TO VOTE.

AFTER A 1ST HOUR IN WHICH
THERE WAS A VERY SMALL TURNOUT AT THE POLLS, THE NUMBER OF SALVADORANS
GOING TO VOTE IN THE CAPITAL CITY AND OTHER TOWNS IS INCREASING.
THOUSANDS OF VOTERS WERE STANDING IN LINES AT MID-MORNING.

   ARMY AND POLICE UNITS SURROUND THE POLLS WHILE MILITARY HELICOPTERS
CONTINUE TO FLY OVER THE CITY.

   FIDEL CHAVEZ MENA OF THE RULING CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDC) TOLD THE
PRESS HE HAS RECEIVED REPORTS FROM HIS FOLLOWERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY TO
THE EFFECT THAT 95 PERCENT OF THE POLLS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED AND ARE
OPERATING, AFTER OVERCOMING SOME EARLY MORNING PROBLEMS IN SOME OF THE
PLACES.

   THE POLLS OPENED AT 0700 (1300 GMT) AND WILL CLOSE AT 1700 (2300 GMT).

   THE BOMB EXPLOSIONS AND SHOOTING HEARD THROUGHOUT THE EARLY HOURS IN SAN
SALVADOR WERE NO LONGER HEARD AFTER 1000 (1600 GMT).  

   HOWEVER, ATTACKS AGAINST VEHICLES AND CLASHES BETWEEN THE [GUERRILLA]4S AND
THE ARMY CONTINUE TO BE REPORTED IN VARIOUS PARTS OF COUNTRY'S INTERIOR.

   THE [GUERRILLA]4S CONTINUE TO BOYCOTT THE ELECTIONS WITH A BLOCKADE OF ALL
LAND TRANSPORTATION, BUT THEY HAVE ANNOUNCED THEY WILL NOT DIRECTLY ATTACK
THE VOTERS OR THE POLLING STATIONS.

   [[HIGHWAY CHECKPOINT SOLDIERS]1]2 KILLED TWO SALVADORAN REPORTERS, [ROBERTO
NAVAS]1 AND [MAURICIO PINEDA]2, IN TWO SEPARATE SHOOTINGS LATE LAST NIGHT AND
EARLY THIS MORNING.  NAVAS WAS A PHOTOGRAPHER FROM AN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
AGENCY, AND PINEDA WAS A SOUND TECHNICIAN FOR A LOCAL TELEVISION CHANNEL.

   PROMINENT AMONG THE ELECTORS, BOTH IN THE CAPITAL AND IN NEIGHBORING
TOWNS, ARE MANY MEMBERS OF THE MAIN OPPOSITION PARTY, THE RIGHTIST
NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE (ARENA), WHO ARE CARRYING BANNERS AND OTHER
VISIBLE SIGNS OF THEIR PARTY PREFERENCE.

   SURVEYS HAVE SHOWN ARENA'S CANDIDATE, ALFREDO CRISTIANI, WILL ALMOST
CERTAINLY WIN THE ELECTIONS.

   ACAN-EFE CORRESPONDENTS WHO TOURED VOTING BOOTHS IN THE CAPITAL AND OTHER
TOWNS SAW SOLDIERS AND POLICEMEN CAREFULLY CHECKING ALL VOTERS BEFORE
ALLOWING THEM TO ENTER THE VOTING AREAS.

   VOTERS WHO ARRIVE IN AUTOMOBILES HAVE TO LEAVE THEM MORE THAN 200 METERS
AWAY.

   IN APOPA, A TOWN SOME 12 KM NORTH OF SAN SALVADOR, THE VOTING BOOTHS
OPENED VERY LATE, BECAUSE THEIR LOCATION WAS CHANGED AT THE LAST MINUTE,
WHICH GENERATED PROTESTS FROM THE DELEGATES OF SEVERAL PARTIES AND LED TO
BRAWLS BETWEEN ARENA AND PDC SUPPORTERS.

   IN THE EARLY MORNING, MILITARY HELICOPTERS USED FLARES SEVERAL TIMES TO
LIGHT UP APOPA AND ITS ENVIRONS, PRESUMABLY TO LOCATE [GUERRILLA]4S.

   MEMBERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONVERGENCE, AN ALLIANCE OF LEFTIST PARTIES,
SAID IN APOPA THEY HAVE RECEIVED DEATH THREATS TO DISSUADE THEM FROM VOTING.

   IN THE SMALL TOWN OF TONACATEPEQUE, SOME 16 KM NORTHEAST OF SAN SALVADOR,
THE DELAY IN BEGINNING THE VOTING WAS ONLY HALF AN HOUR LONG, AND THE
ELECTION PROCESS IS PROCEEDING NORMALLY.

    IN [SAN RAMON]4, ANOTHER TOWN CLOSE TO THE CAPITAL WITH 30,000 INHABITANTS,
THE VOTING BEGAN AFTER A CONSIDERABLE DEALY BECAUSE OF A [GUERRILLA]4 INCURSION
IN THE DAWN HOURS.

   ARMY HELICOPTERS FIRED ROCKETS FOR SEVERAL HOURS AT THE SLOPES OF SAN
SALVADOR VOLCANO, IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE CAPITAL, PRESUMABLY AT THE
[[GUERRILLA]4 COLUMNS]4 THAT ATTACKED [SAN RAMON]4.

HERE IN EL SALVADOR IF THEY
WANTED TO ESTABLISH A MECHANISM (WORDS INDISTINCT) TO SLOWLY ESTABLISH
PEACE IN THE ENTIRE REGION.  THOSE ARE THE EFFORTS (WORDS INDISTINCT).

   (REPORTER) WHAT CAN THE GOVERNMENT DO ABOUT THE [[[[[FMLN]3]4]5]6]7 ([[[[[FARABUNDO MARTI
NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT]3]4]5]6]7)?

   (PONCE) WE CAN ASK THEM TO JOIN THE COUNTRY'S DEMOCRATIC, CIVIC LIFE TO
(WORDS INDISTINCT) PEOPLE TO LIVE IN PEACE.

   (REPORTER) HOW DO YOU VIEW THE VOTING SITUATION AND THE SECURITY AND
SURVEILLANCE THE [[ARMED FORCES]1]2 IS PROVIDING, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THE [[ARMED
FORCES]1]2 ARE BEING CHARGED WITH THE DEATH OF TWO JOURNALISTS?  I THINK YOU ARE
AWARE OF THAT.  TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THAT.

   (PONCE) WE ARE THE FIRST ONES TO REGRET THE DEATH OF THE CANAL DOCE
NEWSMEN WHO DIED IN SAN MIGUEL AND THE REUTER CORRESPONDENT WHO DIED HERE ON
ARMY BOULEVARD.  THOSE DEATHS ARE THE RESULT OF THE PREVAILING UNREST AND
NERVOUSNESS.  THERE ARE BULLETS BEING FIRED ALL OVER THE PLACE AND,
UNFORTUNATELY, THOSE REPORTERS WERE THE FIRST TO GET HIT.  THIS CONTINUES TO
BE A PROBLEM THAT THE [[ARMED FORCES]1]2 HAS (WORDS INDISTINCT).

   (REPORTER) DID THE ARMY SUFFER CASUALTIES DURING THE INCIDENTS IN SAN
RAMON?

   (PONCE) I CAN TELL YOU THAT A BRACAMONTE BATTALION CORPORAL DIED AND
ANOTHER SOLDIER WAS WOUNDED.  HOWEVER, THE 1ST INFANTRY BRIGADE AND
BRACAMONTE BATTALION SOLDIERS REACTED QUICKLY AND REPELLED THE TERRORIST
ACTIVITY THAT IS CURRENTLY CAUSING CHAOS IN SAN SALVADOR.  

   (REPORTER) HAVE OTHER INCIDENTS BEEN REPORTED?

   (PONCE) IT IS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE WHAT THE [[[[[FMLN]3]4]5]6]7 IS SAYING. THEIR
SPOKESMAN IN MEXICO CITY SAID THEY WOULD NOT ATTACK THE [[[[VOTING TABLE]3]4]5]6S.
HOWEVER, WE HAVE HEARD THAT [[[[VOTING TABLE]3]4]5]6S HAVE BEEN ATTACKED IN 15 AREAS OF
THE COUNTRY.  ATTACKS ON [[[[VOTING TABLE]3]4]5]6S WERE REPORTED IN CHALATENANGO, SAN
ANTONIO, CIUDAD BARRIOS, CAROLINA, AND NORTH (WORD INDISTINCT).  IN
USULUTAN, THE [[[[[FMLN]3]4]5]6]7 PLANTED TWO BOMBS JUST OUTSIDE THE CITY TO FRIGHTEN THE
PEOPLE.  HOWEVER, OUR PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC NATURE IS TELLING THE [[[[[FMLN]3]4]5]6]7:  WE DO
NOT WANT TERRORISM, WE WANT PEACE, AND WE ARE USING PEACEFUL MEANS TO
ACHIEVE POWER AND CHOOSE OUR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT.

   (REPORTER) HOW IS THE VOTING PROCESS PROGRESSING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY?

   (PONCE) THERE ARE 27 MUNICIPALITIES WHERE ELECTIONS ARE NOT BEING HELD.
WE KNOW FOR SURE THAT THERE ARE MUNICIPALITIES, LIKE CINQUERA AND ARAMBALA,
WHERE (WORDS INDISTINCT), AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT (WORDS INDISTINCT).  WE KNOW
THERE ARE 27 MUNICIPALITIES WHERE THERE WILL BE NO VOTING AND THERE ARE
OTHERS THAT (WORDS INDISTINCT) THAT THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE POLITICAL
PARTIES AND MEMBERS OF THE MUNICIPAL [[[[VOTING TABLE]3]4]5]6 BOARDS (WORDS INDISTINCT).

   (REPORTER) HOW MANY SOLDIERS ARE PROTECTING THE [[[[VOTING TABLE]3]4]5]6 BOARDS
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY?

   (PONCE) ABOUT 80 PERCENT OF OUR SOLDIERS ARE PART OF THE DEMOCRACY PLAN.
WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE OFFERING THE SAME PROTECTION AFTER THE VOTING
CENTERS ARE CLOSED (WORDS INDISTINCT).

   (REPORTER) WE HAVE READ SOME REPORTS THAT THE [[ARMED FORCES]1]2 ARE URGING THE
PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDC).  WILL THE SOLDIERS
BE ALLOWED TO VOTE?

   (PONCE) FIRST, I EMPHATICALLY AND CATEGORICALLY DENY THAT WE ARE URGING
THE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR THE PDC.  WE HAVE SENT A MEMORANDUM TO ALL THE
COMMANDERS AND (WORD INDISTINCT) CHIEFS ADVISING THEM THAT WE MUST HAVE A
COMPLETELY APOLITICAL ATTITUDE AND REFRAIN FROM PARTICIPATING IN ANY
POLITICAL ACTIVITY.  WE MUST PROTECT ALL POLITICAL PARTIES, WE MUST PROTECT
ALL THE VOTING CENTERS, AND WE MUST ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THE AREAS
SURROUNDING THE VOTING CENTERS.  WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN WHO WINS THE
ELECTIONS; WE ARE INTERESTED IN MAKING SURE THAT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS
RESPECTED AND (WORDS INDISTINCT).  THIS IS A DAY FOR THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE
TO PROVE THEIR DEMOCRATIC NATURE.

   (REPORTER) WILL SOLDIERS BE ALLOWED TO CAST THEIR VOTES TODAY?

   (PONCE) AS SOLDIERS WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE.  BUT BEFORE WE CAST
OUR VOTE WE ARE GOING TO FULFILL OUR DUTY.  OUR DUTY IS TO GUARANTEE
SAFETY.  THIS WILL NOT CREATE A PROBLEM.  FOR EXAMPLE, IF A SOLDIER'S
IDENTIFICATION CARD WAS ISSUED IN SAN SALVADOR BUT HE IS STATIONED IN
AGUILARES, HE WILL BE ALLOWED TO VOTE AT A SPECIFIC VOTING CENTER.  THOSE
WHO CAN VOTE WILL DO SO AS CIVILIANS AND THEY WILL BE UNARMED.  (WORDS
INDISTINCT) MOSTLY ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL AND (WORD INDISTINCT).

   (REPORTER) (WORDS INDISTINCT) THE REBELS HAVE THREATENED TO LAUNCH A
LARGE ATTACK.  DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH MEN TO FIGHT THEM AT THIS TIME?

   (PONCE) SINCE 1982, WE HAVE (WORDS INDISTINCT) DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IN THE
COUNTRY.  THE PEOPLE (WORDS INDISTINCT) BEFORE AND AFTER THE ELECTIONS.
(WORDS INDISTINCT) AMID SABOTAGE TO THE POWER SYSTEM.  WE ARE ALSO
EXPERIENCING A WATER PROBLEM (WORDS INDISTINCT).  WE ARE GOING TO EXERCISE
OUR RIGHT AS ESTABLISHED IN THE CONSTITUTION AND WE ARE GOING PROTECT THE
INTEGRITY OF THE PEOPLE, OUR SOVEREIGNTY, AND (WORDS INDISTINCT). (END
RECORDING)

A BOMB PLANTED NEAR THE [U.S.
EMBASSY]1 IN THIS CAPITAL WAS DEFUSED TODAY BY THE POLICE.

   ACCORDING TO EARLY REPORTS FROM THE BOMB SQUAD, WHICH IS SUBORDINATE TO
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, AN ANONYMOUS CALL RECEIVED AT THE [U.S. EMBASSY]1 REPORTED
THAT THE BOMB WAS ABOUT TO EXPLODE.  

   THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN LA PAZ IS 3 BLOCKS FROM THE PLAZA DE ARMAS AND 3
BLOCKS FROM THE GOVERNMENT PALACE, AND THE LEGISLATIVE PALACE.

   A TEAM FROM THE BOLIVIAN BOMB SQUAD MANAGED TO LOCATE AND DEFUSE THE BOMB
AT 1810 (2210 GMT).  

   NO PERSON OR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION HAS YET CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR
PLANTING THE BOMB.

A NICARAGUAN
DELGATION WILL LEAVE FOR HONDURAS ON TUESDAY TO NEGOTIATE THE RELEASE
OF APPROXIMATELY 1,000 CIVILIANS WHO WERE KIDNAPPED BY THE "CONTRAS"
MORE THAN 5 YEARS AGO, A PARLIAMENTARY SOURCE HAS ANNOUNCED.

   THE SPECIAL DELEGATION IS COMPOSED OF MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL
RECONCILIATION COMMISSION, HEADED BY NICARAGUAN CARDINAL MIGUEL OBANDO Y
BRAVO, AND OPPOSITION DEPUTIES.

   THE SANDINIST GOVERNMENT HAS STATED THAT THE "CONTRAS" ARE HOLDING MORE
THAN 1,000 NICARAGUAN CIVILIANS IN HONDURAN CAMPS.  

   THE DELEGATION ALSO INCLUDES SOCIAL CHRISTIAN LEADERS ERICK RAMIREZ,
MAURICIO DIAZ, AND MONSIGNOR ABELARDO MATA, DIRECTOR OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS
COMMISSION OF THE NICARAGUAN EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE.

   IN ADDITION TO VISITING THE ANTI-SANDINIST CAMPS, THE DELEGATION PLANS TO
MEET WITH HONDURAN PRESIDENT JOSE AZCONA HOYO AND HONDURAN CHURCH OFFICIALS.

   COLONEL EFRAIN GONZALEZ, HONDURAN AMBASSADOR TO NICARAGUA, TOLD ACAN-EFE
THAT HIS GOVERNMENT DOES NOT MIND THE DELEGATION'S VISIT TO HONDURAS TO FIND
OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE KIDNAPPED PERSONS.  

   THE NICARAGUAN RESISTANCE DENIES THAT IT IS HOLDING MORE THAN 1,000
CIVILIANS, AS THE SANDINISTS ALLEGE, BUT ADMITS IT IS HOLDING NICARAGUAN
SOLDIERS.

THREE OFFICIALS OF BRASPETRO (BRAZILIAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION
INTERNATIONAL, INC.) HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED BY A [[GROUP OF [[GUERRILLAS]1]1]2]2 FROM
THE MEDIO MAGDALENA PETROLEUM BASIN, IN COLOMBIA.

   THE [[GUERRILLAS]1]2 LAST NIGHT ATTACKED THE [OIL WELL ISLA TABACO I]2. THEY
CAUSED A LARGE FIRE AND ESCAPED, TAKING AS HOSTAGES BRAZILIAN ENGINEERS
[PAULO CESAR PAIM DE OLIVEIRA]1, [AUGUSTO CARNEIRO MOREIRA JUNIOR]1, AND [JOSE
ROBERTO REIS]1, IN ADDITION TO A COLOMBIAN CITIZEN WHO WAS ALSO WORKING
THERE.  

   BRASPETRO PRESIDENT WAGNER FREIRE TODAY RELEASED AN OFFICIAL NOTE
CONFIRMING THE KIDNAPPING. BOTH BRASPETRO AND THE BRAZILIAN EMBASSY IN
BOGOTA ARE WORKING TO RESCUE THE BRAZILIAN ENGINEERS.

   SO FAR THE GUERRILLA GROUP HAS NOT IDENTIFIED ITSELF OR DEMANDED ANY
RANSOM FOR THE HOSTAGES.

RECENTLY COMRADE MANUEL
CEPEDA, MEMBER OF THE COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE
POLITBURO, VISITED CZECHOSLOVAKIA; WE ASKED HIM FOR AN INTERVIEW.

   (POSLEDNI) IN THE COURSE OF A FEW DAYS AT THE BEGINNING OF MARCH, THREE
LEADING OFFICIALS OF THE COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE LEFTIST
COALITION, THE PATRIOTIC UNION (UP), COMRADES [FORERO]1, [SOTELO]1, AND [ANTEQUERA]3,
WERE MURDERED IN COLOMBIA.  WHY?  

   (CEPEDA) IN COLOMBIA THE DIRTY WAR STEMMING FROM THE AMERICAN TACTICS OF
SO-CALLED LOW-INTENSITY CONFLICT IS INTENSIFYING.  THE INTERNAL POLITICAL
CRISIS IS DEEPENED BY AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE POWERFUL DRUG SMUGGLING CLANS
AND THE MILITARY LEADERSHIP WHICH IS CONDUCTING THE DIRTY WAR.  IN THE SANTA
FE II DOCUMENT, FORMULATING FUTURE UNITED STATES POLICY IN LATIN AMERICA, IT
IS EVEN SAID THAT UNLESS THE UNITED STATES INTERVENES IN THE 1990'S COLOMBIA
WILL BECOME ANOTHER EL SALVADOR AND ON A MUCH LARGER SCALE.  THE SO-CALLED
EXTERMINATION OPERATION, ALSO KNOWN AS THE CONDOR PLAN, IS DIRECTED AGAINST
THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND UP, AGAINST THE UNIONS, BUT ALSO AGAINST PRIESTS WHO
PREACH LIBERATION THEOLOGY, AND RECENTLY THIS HAS INTENSIFIED.  IN COLOMBIA
SOME ELEMENTS OF FASCISM OPENLY MANIFEST THEMSELVES.  THIS IS MANIFESTED IN
HUGE AND UNPUNISHED MASSACRES AND IN THE POWERLESSNESS OF PRESIDENT BARCO
AND HIS CIVILIAN MINISTERS WHO ARE NOT MANAGING TO KEEP THE MILITARY
LEADERSHIP IN CHECK, ALTHOUGH THE PRESIDENT IS THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE
ARMED FORCES.

   (POSLEDNI) SOMETIMES PARTISANS ARE ALSO ACCUSED OF TERROR.  

   (CEPEDA) THAT IS ONE OF THE TRAITS OF AMERICAN POLICY -- TO TERM ANY
KIND OF REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE, OF STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY, AND THE
PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT AS TERRORISM.  THEREFORE, IT ALSO LABELS THE SANDINISTAS
IN NICARAGUA AS TERRORISTS AND THE CONTRA REBELS AS FREEDOM FIGHTERS.  BY
THIS I DO NOT WANT TO SAY THAT THE PARTISANS DO NOT MAKE MISTAKES, WE ALSO
CRITICIZE THEM.  FOR EXAMPLE, WE CONDEMNED THE DESTRUCTION OF OIL PIPLINES
BY THE COLOMBIAN PARTISAN ORGANIZATION THE NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY (ELN).
WE DO NOT AGREE WITH KIDNAPPING CIVILIANS IN EXCHANGE FOR RANSOM.  WE
ANNOUNCED THAT, AS LONG AS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO END THE CONFLICT, IT IS
NECESSARY TO HUMANIZE IT AND TO RESPECT HUMAN LIVES.  THESE ARE THE TACTICS
OF SOLDIERS -- TO LABEL THE PARTISANS AS TERRORISTS AND THEN MASSACRE THE
CIVILIAN POPULATION AS SUSPECTS WHO ARE COLLABORATING WITH TERRORISM.

   (POSLEDNI) PARTISANS FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA
(FARC) OFFERED THE GOVERNMENT A DIALOGUE ABOUT A TRUCE.  HOW DO THEY WANT TO
CONDUCT THIS?

   (CEPEDA) THE FARC, WHICH IS THE STRONGEST ELEMENT OF THE COLOMBIAN
PARTISAN MOVEMENT AND A MEMBER OF ITS COORDINATING COMMITTEE, UNILATERALLY
ADOPTED A CEASE-FIRE AND PROPOSED THE CREATION OF A COMMISSION FOR THIS
DIALOGUE.  IN IT ARE TWO FORMER PRESIDENTS, THE LIBERAL LOPEZ MICHELSEN AND
THE CONSERVATIVE PASTRANA, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIALISTS
ECHEVERRI CORREA, AND BOGOTA'S CARDINAL REBOLLO.  THE FARC WANTS THE
GOVERNMENT TO DISBAND THE PARAMILITARY GROUPS.  THE FORMER INTERIOR MINISTER,
GAVIRIA, SAID THAT THERE ARE 140 OF THEM.  THIS MEANS THAT THE GOVERNMENT
KNOWS THEM.  THE FARC IS DEMANDING THE PURGE OF PEOPLE FROM THE ARMY COMMAND
INVOLVED IN THE DIRTY WAR, THAT THE DEFENSE MINISTER BE A CIVILIAN, THAT THE
STATE OF EMERGENCY BE REVOKED, AND THAT THE ROAD TO REAL DEMOCRACY BE OPENED.

   (POSLEDNI) BUT THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEGUN NEGOTIATING WITH PARTISANS FROM
M-19.

   (CEPEDA) THE EL TIEMPO NEWSPAPER REPORTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT PROMISED
THEM REPRESENTATION IN PARLIAMENT BY THEIR INCLUSION AS CANDIDATES OF THE
LIBERAL PARTY.  THIS IS TO INVOLVE FOUR SEATS AS LONG AS M-19 LAYS DOWN ITS
ARMS AND DISBANDS.  THE OTHER PARTISANS BITTERLY CRITICIZED THIS AS A BLOW
AGAINST THE UNITY OF THE MOVEMENT WHICH WILL BE ABUSED FOR PROPAGANDA
PURPOSES.  AT THE SAME TIME, M-19 REPRESENTS ONLY 5 PERCENT OF THE
MOVEMENT.  IT IS THE INTENTION OF THE GOVERNMENT TO DIVIDE THE PARTISANS.

   (POSLEDNI) THE COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS TOOK PLACE IN
DECEMBER.  HOW DID IT REACT TO THE SITUATION?

   (CEPEDA) THE PARTY CALLED FOR PEACE AND OUTLINED THE STRUGGLE FOR A
PLURALIST GOVERNMENT OF TRANSITION TOWARDS PEACE AND DEMOCRACY.  AT THE END
OF FEBRUARY THERE WAS A CENTRAL COMMITTEE SESSION WHICH DISCUSSED THE DIRTY
WAR.  IT STATED THAT, IN SPITE OF THE TERROR, THERE HAD NOT BEEN WHAT HAD
HAPPENED IN SIMILAR SITUATIONS IN OTHER LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES, NAMELY,
MASS EMIGRATION.  TO ENSURE THAT THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, THE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE DISCUSSED NEW MEASURES, INCLUDING THE TRANSITION OF PART
OF THE PARTY TO THE UNDERGROUND.  WE WILL NOT ALL TRANSFER, BECAUSE NOW WE
MUST STRUGGLE FOR OPEN CONTACT WITH THE MASSES, REGARDLESS OF THE HUGE RISK
WHICH IS LINKED TO THIS.

   (POSLEDNI) WHERE IS THE PARTY SEEKING ALLIES?  

   (CEPEDA) COMRADE [ANTEQUERA]3, AS DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE UP, HAD ESTABLISHED
A NUMBER OF CONTACTS.  HOWEVER, HE WAS MURDERED, AND SENATOR [SAMPER PISANO]3,
A POLITICIAN FROM THE RULING LIBERAL PARTY, WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED DURING THE
ASSASSINATION AT BOGOTA AIRPORT ON 3 MARCH.  THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
AGAINST THE 32-YEAR-OLD PROSPECTIVE POLITICIAN OCCURRED THE DAY AFTER HE
ANNOUNCED HIS CANDIDACY FOR THE PRESIDENCY.  HE ANNOUNCED HIS SUPPORT FOR
DEMOCRATIC COEXISTENCE, FOR AN END TO THE DIRTY WAR WHICH, AS HE SAID, IS
NOT IN THE INTEREST OF THE COLOMBIAN PEOPLE.  THEREFORE, HE WAS NOT A CHANCE
VICTIM.  IT IS ALSO SIGNIFICANT THAT THE CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION COVERING
THE AIRPORT, WHICH IS IN THE HANDS OF THE ARMY, WAS SWITCHED OFF.  THUS,
THEY WANTED TO PREVENT THE MURDERERS BEING FILMED.  ONE OF THEM DIED, THEY
LET THE OTHER THREE ESCAPE.  AT THE SAME TIME, BOGOTA'S CHIEF OF POLICE WAS
AT THE AIRPORT ALONG WITH ANOTHER 10 COLONELS AND A NUMBER OF POLICEMEN AND
PERSONAL BODYGUARDS.

   (POSLEDNI) HOW DID THE OTHER PARTIES REACT TO THE ASSASSINATION?

   (CEPEDA) A JOINT DOCUMENT WAS SIGNED BY THE COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST 
PARTY, THE UP, AND THE LIBERAL PARTY, ON WHOSE BEHALF THE FORMER PRESIDENT
TURBAY AYALA SIGNED.  IT DEMANDS THAT THE GOVERNMENT DISBAND THE
PARAMILITARY SQUADS.  IT SHOWS THAT OPINIONS ARE BEGINNING TO DIFFER, EVEN
IN THE RULING LIBERAL PARTY.  THE CONSERVATIVES ARE ALSO EMPHATICALLY
CRITICIZING THE BLOODBATH AND THE PASSIVITY OF THE GOVERNMENT, POINTING OUT
THAT THEIR LAST PRESIDENT, BETANCUR, CONDUCTED A DIALOGUE WITH THE
PARTISANS.  THIS IS ALL HAPPENING BEFORE THE ELECTIONS WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE
NEXT YEAR.

   (POSLEDNI) THE COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST PARTY LEADERSHIP MET WITH THE
PRESIDENT AFTER THE MURDER OF COMRADE [FORERO]1.  WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT?

   (CEPEDA) IN THE CONVERSATION, WE POINTED TO THE FACT THAT THE DEFENSE
MINISTER, GENERAL GUERRERO PAZ, TRAVELS AROUND COLOMBIA ACCOMPANIED BY THE
LEADER OF THE ULTRA-RIGHT WING, RETIRED GENERAL LANDAZABAL REYES, WHO IS
LEADER OF THE PARAMILITARY GROUPS.  WE ASKED WHY THESE TWO ARE TOGETHER.
THE PRESIDENT DID NOT ANSWER US.  AT THE MEETING WE ALSO SAID THAT, UNLESS
THE DIRTY WAR STOPS, THE COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST PARTY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
HISTORY WILL NOT TAKE PART IN THE ELECTIONS.  WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO
PARTICIPATE, BECAUSE WE ARE ALL BEING MURDERED.  UNLESS THE GOVERNMENT GIVES
US A GUARANTEE OF SECURITY, WE WILL NOT SACRIFICE MORE LIVES.

   (POSLEDNI) THANK YOU FOR THE INTERVIEW.

PRESIDENT
DUARTE SAID THIS AFTERNOON THAT PRESIDENT- ELECT ALFREDO CRISTIANI'S
PEACE PROPOSAL DESERVES RESPECT AND THAT ONE MUST HOPE THAT IT WILL
PRODUCE RESULTS THAT WILL BENEFIT THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE.  THE
PRESIDENT MADE THIS STATEMENT AT COMALPA AIRPORT UPON HIS RETURN FROM
THE UNITED STATES.  HE ADDED THAT HE WILL RESUME HIS DUTIES TOMORROW,
EVEN THOUGH HIS CANCER HAS GROWN.  THERE HAS BEEN VERY NEGATIVE
SPECULATION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH, BUT HE STATED THAT HE WILL
RESUME HIS DUTIES IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS.

   (BEGIN RECORDING) (DUARTE) THE TESTS I UNDERWENT INDICATE THAT THE LIVER
CANCER HAS GROWN.  IT HAS NOT SPREAD BUT IT HAS GROWN, WHICH ADDS TO THE
RISK.  I UNDERWENT A 5-DAY TREATMENT, AND I WILL HAVE TO RETURN AS SOON AS I
PASS THE PRESIDENCY ON TO MY SUCCESSOR.  I WILL RETURN TO THE HOSPITAL ON 2
JUNE FOR ANOTHER CHECKUP AND TREATMENT.

   (REPORTER) WHEN WILL YOU RESUME YOUR DUTIES?  

   (DUARTE) IMMEDIATELY.  I AM THE PRESIDENT AND AS SOON AS I SET FOOT ON
SALVADORAN SOIL, I RESUME MY DUTIES. (END RECORDING) 

   IN REGARD TO THE SEARCHES THAT HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED AT VARIOUS UNION
HEADQUARTERS, DUARTE SAID HE WAS NOT FULLY AWARE OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES IN
WHICH THESE WERE CARRIED OUT.  HOWEVER, HE SAID THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS MUST
BE DEFENDED WHEN DEMOCRATIC FREEDOMS TURN INTO LIBERTINISM.

   (BEGIN RECORDING) (DUARTE) ONE MUST NOT CONFUSE THE FREEDOM OF ALL
SALVADORANS TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES, HOLD DEMONSTRATIONS, JOIN UNIONS, AND
WORK FOR THEIR ASPIRATIONS WITH TERRORIST AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIONS THAT ATTACK
DEMOCRACY.  ONE MUST NOT CONFUSE THESE THINGS.  THIS IS ONE OF THE BASIC
POINTS I HAVE TRIED TO MAKE ALL SECTORS UNDERSTAND.  I HAVE BEEN CREATING
POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES IN THE COUNTRY SO THAT GRADUALLY WE WILL LEARN TO
LIVE FREELY IN A DEMOCRACY WHILE RESPECTING ONE ANOTHER. (END RECORDING)

   ASKED ABOUT THE UNITED FRONT THAT ARENA (NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE)
IS PROMOTING IN THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, THE PRESIDENT SAID THAT IF THIS
BENEFITS THE COUNTRY, IT DESERVES SUPPORT.

   (BEGIN RECORDING) (DUARTE) THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A POLICY FOR PEACE HAS
ALWAYS BEEN SUPPORTED BY THE OUTGOING PRESIDENT -- IN OTHER WORDS, BY ME. I
HAVE PUBLICLY STATED THIS, AND I HAVE TRIED TO ACHIEVE PEACE THROUGH (WORDS
INDISTINCT).  IT WILL NOW BE UP TO ANOTHER PRESIDENT.  I HAVE TO SHOW
RESPECT FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT CRISTIANI, WHO MUST BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO
BEGIN HIS TERM IN AN ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH HE CAN PRESENT HIS IDEAS,
PROPOSALS, AND SOLUTIONS (WORDS INDISTINCT) TO FIND THE PATH TO PEACE. (END
RECORDING)

   PRESIDENT DUARTE DID NOT COMMENT ON THE PEACE PROPOSAL THAT WAS RECENTLY
ANNOUNCED BY ARENA BECAUSE, HE SAID, HE WAS NOT FAMILIAR WITH IT, ADDING
THAT IT WOULD BE UNETHICAL TO QUESTION THE PROPOSALS AND EFFORTS OF THE NEXT
PRESIDENT.  HOWEVER, HE SAID THAT ANY EFFORTS FOR PEACE MUST BE SUPPORTED.

THE LATEST COUP ATTEMPT AGAINST GUATEMALAN
PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO IS NOT AN ISOLATED EVENT.  IT SHOWS THE
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT'S PRECARIOUSNESS.  UNABLE TO MAKE GOOD
ITS LUKEWARM ELECTION PROMISES, THIS GOVERNMENT HAS TAKEN A COMPLETELY
DEFENSIVE POLICY.  HARASSED BY ATTEMPTED COUPS, GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION,
ADMINISTRATIVE INEPTNESS, AND INSURGENT ACTIVITIES, CEREZO'S
ADMINISTRATION IS PLAGUED BY EVIDENT INSTABILITY.  HIS GOVERNMENT IS
STILL HOSTAGE TO THE MILITARY HIGH COMMAND, WHICH TEMPORARILY
SURRENDERED POWER AFTER MANY YEARS OF DICTATORSHIP.

   NEVERTHELESS, CEREZO IS THE VICTIM OF MILITARY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN KEPT
AWAY FROM POSITIONS OF GREATER POWER BY THEIR FELLOW OFFICERS.  THIS SEEMS
TO HAVE BEEN THE CAUSE OF THE MOST RECENT PLOT AGAINST THE CIVILIAN
GOVERNMENT.  THIS PLOT, MASTERMINDED BY AIR FORCE OFFICERS, WAS CRUSHED BY
OFFICERS WHO DECIDED TO SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT FOR THE TIME BEING.

   GUATEMALA, 85 PERCENT OF WHOSE POPULATION LIVES IN POVERTY, IS PLAGUED BY
PARAMILITARY GROUPS THAT SPREAD PANIC, PARTICULARLY AMONG THE PEASANT AND
INDIAN POPULATION, IN COLLUSION WITH THE POWERFUL AND WELL-ARMED ARMY.
ANOTHER SIGN OF THE GOVERNMENT'S INCREASING WEAKNESS IS THAT IMPORTANT
DECISIONS ARE MADE BY THE MILITARY HIGH COMMAND, WHICH DOMINATES KEY
ECONOMIC SECTORS.

   CEREZO'S POWER WAS THREATENED A FEW DAYS AGO BY THE DISCLOSURE THAT
GUATEMALAN FORCES FOR A LONG TIME HAD BEEN STAGING JOINT COUNTERINSURGENCY
OPERATIONS WITH U.S. SOLDIERS.  THIS PARTICIPATION CASTS DOUBTS ON CEREZO'S
ALLEGED ACTIVE NEUTRALITY IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND TURNS GUATEMALA INTO JUST
ANOTHER SPRINGBOARD FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF U.S. FORCES AS PART OF THE
SO-CALLED LOW-INTENSITY WAR.  ACCORDING TO THE GUATEMALAN NATIONAL
REVOLUTIONARY UNITY, WAR EXERCISES ARE STAGED IN GUATEMALA WITH TROOPS FROM
THE U.S. BASES IN THE PANAMA CANAL AREA.  ON 31 JANUARY, A U.S. PILOT FLYING
A U.S. PLANE WAS KILLED WHEN HE TRIED TO LAND AT THE GUATEMALA CITY AIR
FORCE BASE.  THE REBELS ASSERTED THE PLANE WAS HIT BY ANTIAIRCRAFT FIRE.  IN
ADDITION, U.S. TROOPS WERE DEPLOYED IN GUATEMALA'S CHIMALTENANGO DEPARTMENT
IN NOVEMBER 1988.

   SHORTLY AFTER THE MURDER OF 22 PEASANTS LAST FEBRUARY, THE GUERRILLAS
NOTICED FLIGHTS NEAR THE SCENE OF THE MASSACRE BY U.S.  AIR FORCE CHINOOK
HELICOPTERS THAT PARTICIPATED IN COUNTERINSURGENCY OPERATIONS OR IN MISSIONS
TO SUPPORT THE GUATEMALAN ARMY.  

   THE MOST RECENT COUP ATTEMPT IN GUATEMALA AND THE DISCOVERY OF AN
INCREASING PRESENCE OF U.S. TROOPS IN THAT COUNTRY HAS PLACED CEREZO'S
GOVERNMENT IN A SERIOUS, DIFFICULT POSITION.  CEREZO SEEMS TO BE FORCED TO
OBEY A SOCIETY MADE UP OF PEOPLE MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN HIM.

DOES YOUR PRESENCE HERE SIGNALS THE CREATION OF A
KIND OF CONTINENTAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT, SIMILAR TO THE FRONT OF MILITARY
GOVERNMENTS OF THE PAST?

   (LARCO COX) YES.  THE PRESENCE HERE OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE
GROUP OF 8, WITH JUST ONE EXCEPTION, WAS AGREED DURING A PREVIOUS
CONVERSATION IN WHICH WE DECIDED THAT PARAGUAY MUST BE GIVEN THE CHANCE
THAT IT DESERVES FOLLOWING THE RECENT ELECTIONS THAT REFLECTED THE WILL OF
THE PEOPLE.  AND THIS IS WHAT WE WANT, THE STRENGTHENING OF DEMOCRATIC
INSTITUTIONS.

   (REPORTER) WHAT DOES ALL THAT MEAN?  

   (LARCO COX) IT MEANS THAT THE PARAGUAYAN OPPOSITION WAS ABLE TO PERFORM
ITS SUPERVISORY ROLE WITHOUT OBSTACLES, AND THAT THE PROCESS WAS OBSERVED
BY INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS, WHO MADE USE OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION TO
GUARANTEE THE LEGITIMACY OF THE PROCESS.

   (REPORTER) YOUR REMARKS ARE VERY SIGNIFICANT, PARTICULARLY NOW THAT THE
PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT IS FIGHTING A GUERRILLA FORCE THAT JEOPARDIZES THE
DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM.

   (LARCO COX) RIGHT.  IN PERU WE ARE FIGHTING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.  IT IS A
WELL KNOWN FACT THAT THE WORLD IS RIGHTLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE HUMAN RIGHTS
OF THOSE WHO ARE ARRESTED DURING AN ANTISUBVERSIVE ACTION.  YET THERE IS
LITTLE CONCERN ABOUT THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THOSE WHO DEFEND DEMOCRACY,
WITHIN A DEMOCRACY.  DEMOCRACY MUST DEFEND ITSELF.  IN THIS CONTEXT THE
SUBJECT OF RESPONSIBILITY IS NOT WELL DEFINED.

   (REPORTER) DO YOU MEAN THAT A MILITARY GOVERNMENT IS AT TIMES MORE
EFFECTIVE?

   (LARCO COX) NO.  IT IS MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE FOR REPRESSION, BUT I MADE IT
CLEAR THAT SUBVERSION IN A DEMOCRACY IS UNJUSTIFIED AND THAT DEMOCRATIC
GOVERNMENTS DO NOT PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.  IF THERE ARE ANY HUMAN
RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN A DEMOCRACY, THEY STEM FROM EXCESSES BY THE REPRESSIVE
FORCES.

   (REPORTER) WHAT IS THE DIFFRENCE BETWEEN THESE TYPES OF REPRESSION?

   (LARCO COX) IT IS SIMPLE.  IN A DICTATORSHIP, REPRESSION IS WIDESPREAD
AND ALMOST ALWAYS ARBITRARY, AND THERE IS NO ONE TO DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS.

   (REPORTER) IT IS ESTIMATED THAT ALAN GACIA HAS ALREADY SHOWN THAT THERE
IS A LIMIT TO WHAT A CHARISMATIC LEADER CAN DO.  IN FACT, HE IS YOUNG,
HANDSOME, AND HE IS A GOOD SPEAKER.  HOWEVER, HE COULD NOT SOLVE THE
PROBLEMS.  WHAT DOES PERU NEED IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE MUCH DESIRED
STABILIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS?

   (LARCO COX) PERU NEEDS ECONOMIC STABILITY, BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT
EXPERIENCE AND WITH A STRONG DESIRE TO DISTRIBUTE WEALTH.  THE
DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH WAS DONE DURING THE FIRST 2 AND 1/2 YEARS.  THE
NEGATIVE SIDE OF THIS IS THAT DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION WAS OVERSTIMULATED.
EVEN THOUGH IT MIGHT SEEM CONTRADICTORY, OUR PRODUCTIVE APPARATUS NEEDED
MORE IMPORTED MATERIALS IN ORDER TO INCREASE LOCAL PRODUCTION.  THIS LED
TO A DANGEROUS DECREASE IN OUR RESERVES.  SIMULTANEOUSNLY, THE BANK
NATIONALIZATION LAW WAS SET IN MOTION.  THIS PROVIDED THE PERFECT
FRAMEWORK FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SYSTEM.  THERE WAS ALSO THE EARLY
START TO THE ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN, AND FINALLY THE RADICAL OPPOSITION BY THE
BUSINESS SECTOR OF A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT.

   (REPORTER) THERE HAS ALSO BEEN A GROWTH IN THE CRIME RATE AND THE COSTLY
PROCESS OF FIGHTING THE SHINING PATH GUERRILLAS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND IN
URBAN TERRORIST ACTIONS.  THIS COULD EASILY LEAD TO THE CONCLUSION THAT
PERUVIAN DEMOCRACY DOES NOT HAVE GOOD PROSPECTS, RIGHT?

   (LARCO COX) QUITO TO THE CONTRARY.  DEMOCRACY WILL BE PRESERVED EVEN IF
THE NORMAL HANDING OVER OF POWER TO THE NEW ADMINISTRATION BECOMES THE ONLY
OBJECTIVE OF THE RECENTLY INSTALLED CABINET.  THIS, HOWEVER, WILL BECOME
THE SOLE OBJECTIVE ONLY IN AN ESTREME SITUATION.  THERE ARE OBVIOUSLY OTHER
OBJECTIVES, BUT I WANT TO STRESS THE SIGNIFICANCE THAT WE ATTACH TO THE
HANDING OVER OF POWER TO THE WINNER OF CLEAN ELECTIONS, WITH GUARANTEES FOR
ALL OPPOSITION PARTIES.  THIS IS HOW THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS WILL BE
PRESERVED AND THIS IS HOW THIS GOVERNMENT WILL ATTAIN ONE OF ITS MAIN
TARGETS.

AT 1400 ON 27 MAY,
SPECIAL HONDURAN TROOPS ENTERED SAN ANDRES AND TIERRA AGRIA, SAN
GERARDO JURISDICTION, SAN MIGUEL DEPARTMENT, WHEN ARCE BATTALION
TROOPS WERE CARRYING OUT AN OPERATION IN THE AREA.  THEY CLASHED NEAR
EL CHENGUE HILL AND ALONG THE SHORES OF TOROLA RIVER.  DURING THIS
CLASH, WHICH LASTED 4 HOURS, ARCE BATTALION WAS SUPPORTED BY TWO
ROCKET-FIRING HELICOPTERS, A HUGHES 500, AND A A-37 PLANE.

   SALVADORAN TROOPS SUSTAINED NUMEROUS CASUALTIES, INCLUDING A WOUNDED ARCE
BATTALION OFFICER.  HONDURAN TROOPS WERE PUSHED BACK AND CORNERED IN LOS
LLANITOS, SANTA LUCIA JURISDICTION, INTIBUCA DEPARTMENT, HONDURAS.  ARCE
BATTALION LANDED TROOPS FROM FOUR HELICOPTERS IN THAT VILLAGE.  AN [HONDURAN
HELICOPTER]1, WHICH WAS EVACUATING CASUALTIES, WAS ATTACKED AND PURSUED 7 KM
INTO HONDURAN TERRITORY BY A SALVADORAN HELICOPTER, WHICH FIRED [ROCKETS]1 AND
[MACHINEGUNS]1.

   ARCE BATTALION, WHICH SURROUNDED HONDURAN TROOPS IN LOS LLANITOS,
CAPTURED AN UNDETERMINED NUMBER OF PRISONERS.  IN THIS CLASH, RESIDENTS OF
THE SAN ANDRES, (WORDS INDISTINCT) CANTONS, AND RESIDENTS OF LOS CASTANOS,
LOS LLANITOS, AND LA CEIBITA WERE ROCKETED AND MACHINEGUNNED BY [SALVADORAN
AIR FORCE]1 HELICOPTERS.  

   THERE ARE REPORTS ABOUT [PARTIALLY DESTROYED [HOMES]1]1 AND [ANIMALS]1 THAT WERE
KILLED.  WE ARE TRYING TO INVESTIGATE THE NAMES OF THE WOUNDED AND DEAD
AMONG AREA RESIDENTS.

   WE URGE THE HONDURAN PEOPLE TO REFLECT ON THE SERIOUSNESS AND
REPERCUSSIONS OF THESE CLASHES.  THIS IS THE RESULT OF THE HONDURAN ARMY'S
POLICY OF INVOLVMENT IN THE SALVADORAN WAR.  

   THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) HAD WARNED THAT
HONDURAN TROOPS' COOPERATION AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE SALVADORAN WAR,
FOLLOWING A U.S. DECISION, WOULD EVENTUALLY LEAD TO A CLASH BETWEEN THE TWO
ARMIES.  IT IS A SECRET TO NOBODY THAT THE OLIGARCHS WHO HAVE REACHED POWER
WITH THE NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE GOVERNMENT ARE THE SAME ONES WHO
PROMOTED THE INVASION OF HONDURAS IN 1969 AND THAT THE OFFICERS WHO WERE
RESPONSIBLE AT THE TIME FOR MASSACRES, RAIDS, AND ABUSES AGAINST THE
HONDURAN PEOPLE ARE THE SAME ONES WHO ARE IN THE HIERARCHY OF THE SALVADORAN
ARMY.  

   WE BELIEVE HONDURANS MUST THINK ABOUT THIS SITUATION, BECAUSE THIS LEVEL
OF CONFRONTATION WITH INFANTRY TROOPS AND AIRCRAFT WILL SET THE TONE OF THE
CONFLICT FOR THE DEFINITION OF THE BORDER CONFLICT OF A GOVERNMENT OF
OLIGARCHS WHO HAVE ALWAYS SUPPORTED AN EXPANSIONIST POLICY TOWARD HONDURAS.  

   ONCE AGAIN, WE CALL ON THE HONDURAN PEOPLE TO STOP THEIR ARMY'S
INVOLVEMENT IN SOMEONE ELSE'S WAR (WORDS INDISTINCT) IN EL SALVADOR, ITS
MAIN ENEMY.  

   WE CALL ON THE NATIONAL AND INTERNAL PRESS, ESPECIALLY HONDURAN MEDIA, TO
VISIT LOS LLANITOS, SANTA LUCIA, INTIBUCA DEPARTMENT, TO CONFIRM THESE
SERIOUS INCIDENTS.  WE CALL ON HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS TO HELP THE
INJURED CIVILIANS.

   (SIGNED) (FMLN) EL SALVADOR, 28 MAY 1989

IT HAS BEEN LEARNED FROM POLICE
SOURCES THAT ANOTHER [DEVICE]1 HAS EXPLODED ON THE DOWNTOWN CORNER OF
SARMIENTO AND SAN MARTIN STREETS, WHERE MANY [BANKING INSTITUTIONS]1 ARE
LOCATED.

   THE FEDERAL POLICE [BOMB]1 SQUAD IS TRYING TO DETERMINE THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY
THIS SECOND [BOMB]1, WHICH EXPLODED 30 MINUTES AFTER THE ONE THAT DAMAGED THE
WINDOWS OF THE [VELOX BANK]2.

WHEN WE
ASKED THE FOREIGN MINISTRY WHY THE HONDURAN GOVERNMENT HAS NOT
PROTESTED THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES ATTACKS ON HONDURAN ARMY
SOLDIERS AND A HELICOPTER IN LOS LLANITOS (INTIBUCA), THE ANSWER WAS
VERY SIMPLE, BUT IT SHOWS THE IMPORTANCE THAT IS GIVEN TO NATIONAL
SOVEREIGNTY AND INTEGRITY: THE ARMED FORCES HAVE NOT INFORMED US OF
ANYTHING AT ALL -- THEY SAID -- AND WHAT THE MEDIA SAYS IS NOT
ACCURATE.

   THE NEWSPAPERS TIEMPO AND LA PRENSA PUBLISHED REPORTS OF THE INCIDENT
WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THAT CONFIRMED THE AGGRESSION, THE BOMBING AND SHELLING OF
VILLAGES IN OUR TERRITORY, AND PROVIDED ACCOUNTS BY EYEWITNESSES AND
MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES, BUT WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE FOREIGN MINISTRY, LACK
CREDIBILITY OR IMPORTANCE.

   LATER FOREIGN NEWSMEN WENT TO THESE PLACES AND CONFIRMED WHAT TIEMPO AND
LA PRENSA HAD REPORTED.  THEY ALSO OBTAINED OTHER DETAILS ON THE INCIDENTS.
WHILE THE HONDURAN AND SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES DENIED THE INCIDENT, DESPITE
THE EVIDENCE, THE TRUTH IS THERE FOR THE GENTLEMEN OF THE FOREIGN MINISTRY
TO SEE.

   ACCORDING TO STATEMENTS BY THE VILLAGERS WHO WERE THE VICTIMS OF THE
SALVADORAN AGGRESSION, THE [HONDURAN MILITARY]1 THREATENED THEM AND ORDERED
THEM TO BE SILENT OR TO LIE ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED.  IT WAS NECESSARY FOR
THE SANTA LUCIA MAYOR TO INTERVENE BEFORE THEY COULD TELL NEWSMEN WHAT HAD
HAPPENED.  A REPORTER FOR LA PRENSA WAS SIDETRACKED BY A COMMANDER, NO DOUBT
TO KEEP HIM FROM DOING HIS JOB AS A JOURNALIST.

   THE HONDURAN ARMY'S WEAPONS SERVED TO KEEP THE AGGRESSION QUIET INSTEAD
OF REPELLING IT, TO THREATEN HONDURAN BORDER VILLAGERS INSTEAD OF
PROTECTING THEM, WHILE THE ARMY TURNED ITS BACK ON THE ENEMY ARMED FORCES
-- WHICH HAVE TRAMPLED ON OUR TERRITORY AND HUMILIATED US -- INSTEAD OF
FIGHTING THEM.  IN SHORT, THE WEAPONS THAT WE HONDURANS AND THE ARMED
FORCES HAVE OBTAINED WITH SO MUCH SACRIFICE, EVEN AT THE EXPENSE OF GOING
WITHOUT FOOD AND MEDICINE, ARE USED AGAINST HONDURAS AND ITS PEOPLE.  

   THIS SITUATION SHOULD CAUSE US TO GIVE MUCH THOUGHT TO THE EXISTENCE OF
THE HONDURAN ARMED FORCES.  WE ANTICIPATED THIS WHEN THE REGIONAL MILITARY
TRAINING AND SECURITY CENTER (CREMS) WAS CREATED EXCLUSIVELY TO TRAIN 10,000
SALVADORAN TROOPS -- THE SAME ARMY THAT INVADED US IN 1969 AND THAT IS
ATTACKING US AGAIN.

   WE WONDER IF WE ARE NOT ACQUIRING A MERCENARY MENTALITY IN HONDURAS,
WHEREBY THE STATE'S WEAPONS GO TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER RATHER THAN BEING USED
IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST.  FOR THE PAST 7 YEARS THEY HAVE BEEN USED FOR
ECONOMIC -- THOUGH IDEOLOGICALLY DISGUISED -- BENEFITS.

   NO NATIONAL MILITARY FORCE CAN FUNCTION LIKE THIS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
IN ANY EVENT, THE IDEOLOGY OF ANY ARMY SHOULD BE NATIONALISTIC, EVEN IN THE
CASE OF POWERS AND SUPERPOWERS THAT INVENT AND USE INTERNATIONALIST
IDEOLOGIES FOR THEIR HEGEMONIC STRUGGLES.

   HERE IN HONDURAS THE CASE OF THE ARMED FORCES IS JUST THE OPPOSITE.  TO
THE MILITARY INSTITUTE'S WAY OF THINKING, THOSE WHO ARE DEMANDING THE
DEFENSE OF SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY ARE SUBVERSIVES WHO ARE
ALLIED WITH SUBVERSIVES FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.  AN AGGRESSION AGAINST
HONDURAS BY A FOREIGN ARMY IS LEGITIMIZED BY THE PEOPLE ATTACKED AND THOSE
WHO INFORM AND PROTEST ARE ENEMIES OF THE FATHERLAND.

   THIS WAS STATED IN AN EDITORIAL OF THE HONDURAN ARMED FORCES' "MILITARY
PROJECTIONS" PROGRAM.  THE EDITORIAL SAID THAT THE REPORT WAS ISSUED
"WITHOUT PRIOR INVESTIGATION" AND WAS BASED SOLELY "ON INFORMATION PROVIDED
BY THESE GROUPS TO CONFUSE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION."

   "THE IRRESPONSIBILITY OF SOME PRINT AND BROADCAST MEDIA DIRECTORS HAS
REACHED THE POINT THAT THEY ARE PROMOTING THESE CLEARLY MARXIST - LENINIST
SUBVERSIVES, FINANCED BY CUBA AND NICARAGUA, AND THOSE WHO DO NOT HIDE THEIR
OPEN SYMPATHY WITH PSEUDO-PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS.  THEY ATTEMPT TO CONCEAL
THIS BY CLAIMING THAT RADIO STATIONS OR NEWSPAPERS HAVE UNRESTRICTED FREEDOM
OF EXPRESSION."

   A SIMILAR EXPLANATION WAS PRESENTED BY THE SALVADORAN EMBASSY IN
TEGUCIGALPA IN A PRESS COMMUNIQUE DISTRIBUTED TO THE MEDIA, WHICH PUBLISHED
AND DISSEMINATED IT -- ALTHOUGH IT APPEARS INCREDIBLE -- THROUGH THE
OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL HOUSE BULLETINS.  WE MIGHT ADD THAT THE HONDURAN ARMY
HAS ECHOED SUCH REPORTS, AS AN ACCOMPLICE TO A PROPAGANDA PLOY TO COVER UP
AN AGGRESSION AGAINST OUR COUNTRY.

   WE ASK, THEREFORE:  "WHAT IS LEFT OF OUR NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS?  WHAT IS
HONDURAS?  WHO ARE HONDURANS?"

NICARAGUA
HAS DENIED ANY LINKS WITH THE ASSASSINATION OF SALVADORAN PRESIDENCY
MINISTER [ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ PORTH]1 8 DAYS AGO, AN ALLEGATION MADE BY THE
SALVADORAN ARMY.  AT A NEWS CONFERENCE, COMMANDER BAYARDO ARCE, VICE
COORDINATOR OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION OF THE RULING SANDINIST
NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT, FSLN, TERMED IRRESPONSIBLE THE CHARGES MADE
IN SAN SALVADOR THAT NICARAGUA TRAINED THE [COMMANDO]1 WHO KILLED
RODRIGUEZ PORTH.

   ARCE SAID:  WE LACK THE EXPERIENCE FOR SUCH ATTACKS AND THEREFORE COULD
NOT HAVE TRAINED ANYONE.  HE RECALLED THAT THE FSLN NEVER RESORTED TO THAT
TYPE OF ACTION DURING ITS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DICTATOR ANASTASIO SOMOZA,
WHO WAS OVERTHROWN IN 1979.

   THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES HAVE CLAIMED THAT RODRIGUEZ PORTH WAS KILLED
BY A [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT]1 [COMMANDO]1 TRAINED IN
NICARAGUA.  HOWEVER, THAT GUERRILLA GROUP HAS DENIED ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR
THE ACTION.

   ARCE ALSO DENIED THAT NICARAGUA HAS SENT WEAPONS TO PANAMA WHEN TENSION
WITH THE UNITED STATES INCREASED LAST MONTH, AS REPORTED IN THE U.S. MEDIA.
I AM NOT SURPRISED BY THOSE STATEMENTS, ARCE SAID, ADDING THAT THE UNITED
STATES CONTINUES ITS EFFORTS TO DISCREDIT THE NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT WITH
SUCH LIES.

ACCORDING TO A LAST - MINUTE OFFICIAL REPORT, SIX [GUERRILLAS]1 OF THE
SO-CALLED CAMILIST UNION OF THE SO-CALLED [ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION
[ELN]1]1 DIED TODAY DURING FIGHTING WITH (LA POPA) BATTALION TROOPS IN THE
SLOPES OF THE PERIJA MOUNTAIN RANGE.  A MILITARY COMMAND SPOKESMAN
SAID THAT THE FIGHTING TOOK PLACE A SCANT 10 KM FROM THE VILLAGE OF
SAN JACINTO IN SAN DIEGO MUNICIPALITY, WHERE FOUR SOLDIERS DIED LAST
WEEK IN AN AMBUSH.

   POLICE AND MILITARY FORCES HAVE STEPPED UP SURVEILLANCE AROUND THE CANO
LIMON - COVENAS [PIPELINE]1 AFTER TWO NEW ATTACKS, ALSO BY THE [ELN]1, OCCURRED IN
HUILA AND NORTH SANTANDER DEPARTMENTS.

   THE TERRORIST ATTACK IN HUILA DEPARTMENT TOOK PLACE IN LA MOTOSA, NEAR
AIPE MUNICIPALITY, WHERE THE [PIPELINE]1 THAT PUMPS CRUDE OIL BETWEEN NEIVA AND
LA DORADA WAS DYNAMITED.  HUMBERTO BRINES TRAVELED EARLY TODAY TO THE SCENE
OF THE EVENTS AND REPORTED THE FOLLOWING:

   (BEGIN RECORDING) (BRINES) A NEW ATTACK WAS PERPETRATED LAST NIGHT AGAINST
THE [PIPELINE]1 THAT PUMPS CRUDE OIL FROM NEIVA TO DORADA.  SUSPECTED [ELN]1
[GUERRILLAS]1 PLACED A [DYNAMITE CHARGE]1 AT THE PLACE CALLED LA MOTOSA, NEAR AIPE
MUNICIPALITY, WHICH COMPLETELY DESTROYED THE [GUARD POST]1 AND A [STRETCH OF THE
[PIPELINE]1]1.  A FIRE IMMEDIATELY BROKE OUT AND THE [INSTALLATION]1 WAS COMPLETELY
GUTTED.

   CRUDE OIL PUMPING WAS SUSPENDED AND EFFORTS TO CONTAIN THE FIRE AND TO
REPAIR THE [PIPELINE]1 BEGAN AT 2300.  THE EXTENT OF THE LOSSES HAS NOT YET
BEEN ASSESSED.  THIS [PIPELINE]1 PUMPS 58,000 BARRELS OF OIL PER DAY.  THE MAIN
PUMPING STATION IS LOCATED IN AIPE MUNICIPALITY.  WORKERS FROM (JOCOL) AND
ECOPETROL (COLOMBIAN PETROLEUM ENTERPRISE) WORKED INTENSELY ALL
THROUGH THE PREDAWN HOURS TO REPAIR THE [PIPELINE]1, ENABLING IT TO RESUME
PUMPING OPERATIONS AT 1000.

   EVEN THOUGH THE [ELN]1 HAS REPEATEDLY THREATENED THE OIL [PIPELINE]1S, WORK HAS
CONTINUED ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW MULTIPLE [PIPELINE]1 IN HUILA, WHICH
WILL PUMP 138,000 BARRELS OF OIL PER DAY BETWEEN NEIVA AND COVENAS.  THE
SAME [PIPELINE]1 WAS BLOWN UP ONLY 1 MONTH AGO, A SCARCE 25 KM FROM THAT PLACE.
(END RECORDING)

THE [[CAMILIST UNION - ARMY OF NATIONAL
LIBERATION]1 [ELN]1]1 HAS CARRIED OUT A NEW ATTACK ON THE [PACIFIC OIL
PIPELINE]1 IN MULALO, YUMBO MUNICIPALITY.  THE ATTACK OCCURRED AT
APPROXIMATELY 2200 YESTERDAY WHEN [TWO MEN ON A MOTORCYCLE]1 SET OFF [5 KG
OF DYNAMITE]1.  THE EXPLOSION DESTROYED THREE SECTIONS OF THE PIPELINE
THAT CARRIES GASOLINE FROM TANKERS IN BUENAVENTURA TO THE (ECOPETROL
COLOMBIAN PETROLEUM ENTERPRISE) PLANT IN YUMBO.  APPROXIMATELY 18,000
BARRELS OF GASOLINE ARE PUMPED THROUGH THIS SECTION OF THE PIPELINE
DAILY.  PUMPING HAS BEEN HALTED WHILE THE PIPELINE IS REPAIRED.
ALTHOUGH THE EXACT AMOUNT OF THE DAMAGE IS STILL UNKNOWN, IT IS
ESTIMATED THAT LOSSES FROM THE SPILLED GASOLINE AND THE DAMAGE TO THE
PIPELINE ARE CLOSE TO 20 MILLION PESOS.

   THIS IS THE FIFTH DYNAMITE ATTACK ON THE PACIFIC PIPELINE BY THE [ELN]1 IN
VALLE DEL CAUCA DEPARTMENT IN THE PAST 6 MONTHS.  ONE OCCURRED IN BUGA
MUNICIPALITY 1 MONTH AGO, AND THE OTHER FOUR HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE MULALO
AREA.

ARMED FORCES COMMANDER GENERAL OSCAR
BOTERO RESTREPO REPORTED TODAY THAT [GUERRILLAS]1 OF THE PRO - CASTRO [ARMY OF
NATIONAL LIBERATION]1 ([ELN]1) SET FIRE TO THREE [TANK TRUCKS]1 THAT WERE CARRYING
OIL FROM THE CANO LIMON OILFIELD IN ARAUCA DEPARTMENT, WHICH BORDERS
VENEZUELA, TO COLOMBIA'S INTERIOR.  

   THE ATTACK WAS CARRIED OUT IN BOQUERON, BETWEEN PAJARITO AND YOPAL, IN
CASANARE DEPARTMENT, WHERE THE SUBVERSIVES HAVE UNLEASHED A VIOLENT CAMPAIGN
AGAINST COLOMBIA'S OIL INFRASTRUCTURE TO FORCE THEIR DEMANDS FOR THE
NATIONALIZATION OF THE OIL INDUSTRY.

   GEN BOTERO SAID THAT THE REBELS -- WHO HAVE DYNAMITED THE COUNTRY'S MAIN
OIL PIPELINE, THE CANO LIMON - CONVENAS PIPELINE, 23 TIMES THUS FAR THIS
YEAR -- INTERCEPTED THE VEHICLES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY AND SET THEM
ON FIRE AFTER FORCING THE DRIVERS TO GET OUT OF THE VEHICLES.  THE [ELN]1
[GUERRILLAS]1 SIMULTANEOUSLY WROTE SLOGANS IN SUPPORT OF THE SO-CALLED SIMON
BOLIVAR NATIONAL GUERRILLA COORDINATING BOARD.  DURING THE LAST FEW HOURS,
THIS GROUP AGREED WITH PRESIDENT BARCO'S ADMINISTRATION TO BEGIN A DIRECT
DIALOGUE TO SEEK PEACE IN COLOMBIA.  

   NO DEATHS WERE REPORTED IN THE ATTACK BY THE [ELN]1, WHICH WAS FOUNDED
DURING THE 1960'S AND IS LED BY MANUEL PEREZ, A SPANISH PRIEST.

   MEANWHILE, ANOTHER COMMANDO GROUP FROM THE CAMILIST UNION (NAMED IN
MEMORY OF COLOMBIAN PRIEST CAMILO RESTREPO, WHO WAS KILLED BY SOLDIERS IN
1966 WHILE STILL A MEMBER OF THE [ELN]1), AMBUSHED A MILITARY PATROL ON THE
AGUA AZUL - TERRANOVA HIGHWAY, ALSO IN CASANARE, KILLING TWO SOLDIERS.  GEN
BOTERO SAID THAT TWO SOLDIERS STEPPED ON A MINE DURING THE GUERRILLA ATTACK
AND THREE OTHER SOLDIERS WERE WOUNDED.

RECENTLY NEW PHENOMENA HAVE MADE THEIR WAY ONTO THE COLOMBIAN
POLITICAL SCENE.  THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO VARGAS
HAS BEEN FORCED TO ADOPT MEASURES AGAINST ULTRA RIGHT-WING
PARAMILITARY ORGANIZATIONS AND DIFFERENCES ARE BEGINNING TO APPEAR IN
THE GOVERNMENT AND IN THE ARMED FORCES.

   THESE ARGUMENTS ARE TAKING PLACE IN CONNECTION WITH DISCUSSIONS PRIOR TO
THE ELECTIONS WHICH ARE EXPECTED TO TAKE PLACE IN COLOMBIA IN 1990.  AFTER
THE COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST PARTY (CCP) HAD DEMANDED FROM THE GOVERNMENT SECURE
GUARANTEES THAT IT CAN PARTICIPATE IN THEM, IT ANNOUNCED THAT IT WILL BECOME
INVOLVED IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS AND NOW IT IS STRIVING TO CREATE A BROAD
DEMOCRATIC COALITION.

   THE APPROACHING ELECTIONS AS WELL AS THE WIDESPREAD INTERNATIONAL
CONDEMNATION OF THE "DIRTY WAR" IN COLOMBIA FORCED THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE
MORE DECISIVE STEPS IN A NUMBER OF SPHERES.  THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THESE ARE:

   -- ISSUING PRESIDENTIALLY PROCLAIMED DECREES AGAINST HIRED ASSASSINS AND
CREATING AN ELITE MILITARY FORCE FOR THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THEM; ORGANIZING A
STRUGGLE AGAINST ULTRA RIGHT-WING [PARAMILITARY GROUPS]1 AND INCREASING PRISON
SENTENCES UP TO 20-30 YEARS FOR SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF
THEM;

   -- CONDUCTING A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE LEFTIST COALITION PATRIOTIC UNION
(WHICH THE CCP IS A MEMBER OF) AND THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE ARMY WITH
THE PARTICIPATION OF THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE;

   -- CONDUCTING A PURGE IN THE ARMY DIRECTED AGAINST THE OFFICERS WHO ARE
ASSOCIATED WITH WITH GROUPS OF HIRED ASSASSINS.

   THE REASON FOR ACCELERATING THESE MEASURES WAS THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
AGAINST THE HEAD OF THE SECRET POLICE (DAS), GENERAL [MIGUEL MAZA MARQUEZ]1,
CARRIED OUT ON 30 MAY BY [PARAMILITARY GROUPS]1 WHICH ARE CONTROLLED BY [DRUG
TRAFFICKERS]1.  A [VEHICLE FILLED WITH 100 KG OF DYNAMITE]1 WAS USED TO TRY TO
ASSASSINATE THE HEAD OF STATE SECURITY.  THE GENERAL ESCAPED WITHOUT INJURY
BUT DURING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT 7 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND MORE THAN 50
WERE WOUNDED.  BECAUSE OF THIS ACT DIFFERENCES IN THE ARMED FORCES AND IN
THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT FURTHER INTENSIFIED.

   MAZA MARQUEZ HAS BEEN THE SWORN ENEMY OF THE MAFIA AND THE OBJECT OF
THEIR THREATS SINCE HE REVEALED THAT THE GANGS WHICH CARRY OUT ASSASSINATION
ATTEMPTS AGAINST THE CCP AND THE PATRIOTIC UNION ARE TRAINED MERCENARIES
FROM THE UNITED STATES, ISRAEL, THE FRG, AND GREAT BRITAIN.  AFTER ESCAPING
FROM AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON 3 MAY, GENERAL MAZA MARQUEZ SENT A LETTER
TO THE STATE PROSECUTOR.  IN IT HE SAID THAT CERTAIN GROUPS IN THE ARMY KNEW
ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT WHICH HAD BEEN PREPARED AGAINST HIM.  

   DURING THE SAME PERIOD CAPTAIN WANUMEN (NAME AS PUBLISHED) WAS
IMPRISONED; HE HAD SECRET DOCUMENTS FROM THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, THE
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, THE U.S. EMBASSY IN BOGOTA, THE DAS, AND THE
AMERICAN CIA WHICH LIST HIGHLY PLACED INDIVIDUALS IN THE GOVERNMENT WHO WORK
AS "SPIES" FOR THE BENEFIT OF [DRUG TRAFFICKERS]1 FROM THE MEDELLIN AND CALI
CARTELS.  ALTHOUGH PRESIDENT BARCO VARGAS DENIED THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE
DOCUMENTS, REPORTS ARE GENERALLY DISSEMINATED THAT THE RULING ELITE HAS BEEN
INFILTRATED WITH MAFIA AGENTS.

   IN THIS SITUATION SPACE OPENS UP FOR THE CCP'S PROPOSAL TO INTRODUCE
PEACE TO THE COUNTRY BY WAY OF A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND ALL
PARTISAN GROUPS, NOT JUST WITH THE M-19 MOVEMENT, AS THE GOVERNMENT HAS
PRACTICED TO DATE.  ALTHOUGH THE SITUATION IN COLOMBIA IS STILL SERIOUS,
THERE ARE DEFINITE SIGNS OF A TURNAROUND FOR THE BETTER.

THE
SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES HAVE BANNED ENTRANCE INTO THE UNIVERSITY OF EL
SALVADOR CAMPUS AND ARE THREATENING TO FIRE ON ANYONE WHO DISOBEYS
THIS ORDER.  THIS AFTERNOON, THE ARMY ALLOWED NEITHER VEHICLES NOR
STUDENTS TO ENTER THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS.  ACCORDING TO MILITARY
OFFICIALS, ORDERS WERE GIVEN TO SHOOT ANYONE WHO DISOBEYED BY
ATTEMPTING TO ENTER THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS.  THE MEASURE WENT INTO
EFFECT AT 1730.  THE SITUATION GREW TENSE WHEN PRIVATE CARS ATTEMPTED
TO ENTER THE CAMPUS GROUNDS.

   UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS MET WITH THE MILITARY.  ACCORDING TO THE ARMED
FORCES HIGH COMMAND, SINCE 23 DECEMBER 1988, THE MILITARY HAS NOT ALLOWED
WEAPONS TO BE INTRODUCED INTO OR TAKEN OUT OF THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS.  THE
DISCUSSION ON WHETHER TO ALLOW THE ENTRANCE OF STUDENTS AND VEHICLES BECAME
HEATED.  UNIVERSITY GENERAL MANAGER MARIO ALFREDO CABRERA SAID THAT THIS
MEASURE IS INTENDED TO SHUT DOWN THE UNIVERSITY.

   (BEGIN RECORDING) (CABRERA) ALL OF THIS FALLS UNDER THE GENERAL CAMPAIGN
OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AGGRESSION AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY TO MINIMIZE ITS AUTHORITY
IN LIGHT OF ITS ROLE AS THE GOVERNMENT'S AND THE NATION'S CONSCIENCE, WHICH
OFFICIALS -- WHO ARE NOT LEADING THE COUNTRY ALONG THE CORRECT PATH -- DO
NOT LIKE.  WE BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE BASIC REASON BEHIND THIS AND OTHER
MEASURES.  THESE MEASURES INCLUDE HELICOPTERS OVERFLYING THE CAMPUS AT VERY
LOW ALTITUDES AND SOLDIERS THREATENING TO SHOOT TO KILL IF THE ORDER IS
DISOBEYED.  (END RECORDING)

   SINCE THE MILITARY BLOCKADE WENT INTO EFFECT, SALVADORAN AIR FORCE
HELICOPTERS HAVE BEEN OVERFLYING THE CAMPUS.

THE COLOMBIAN POLICE TODAY RESCUED
[MANUEL VALLEJO URIBE]1, A BUSINESSMAN, WHO THEY FOUND UNHARMED. DURING THE
RESCUE OPERATION, THE POLICE KILLED SIX KIDNAPPERS, ACCORDING TO AN
OFFICAL POLICE REPORT.  

   VALLEJO URIBE, 32, WAS RELEASED IN BELLO, NEAR MEDELLIN, THE SECOND
LARGEST CITY IN COLOMBIA, AS THE RESULT OF INTELLIGENCE GATHERED BY THE
METROPOLITAN POLICE, POLICE SOURCES ADDED.

   THE BUSINESSMAN, WHO OWNS A TANNERY AND SPENDS MOST OF HIS TIME IN MIAMI,
WAS KIDNAPPED ON 9 JULY BY SEVERAL [UNKNOWN PERSONS]1.  

   THE POLICE REPORTED THAT DURING THE BELLO RESCUE OPERATION, SIX
KIDNAPPERS, ALL COMMON CRIMINALS WHO TRIED TO PREVENT THE POLICE FROM
RESCUING HIM, WERE KILLED.

WITH SIMULTANEOUS BOMB
EXPLOSIONS IN THE HONDURAN CAPITAL AND LA CEIBA PORT, LOCATED
APPROXIMATELY 355 KM FROM TEGUCIGALPA ON THE ATLANTIC COAST, A NEW
GUERRILLA GROUP CALLING ITSELF THE [[[["9 MAY" PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FORCES]1]2]3]4,
[[[[FPL]1]2]3]4, ANNOUNCED ITS EMERGENCE AS ONE OF THE ARMED ORGANIZATIONS STRUGGLING
FOR POWER.

   THREE [[[[BOMBS]1]2]3]4 WENT OFF SIMULTANEOUSLY IN TEGUCIGALPA, ONE AT THE [CENTRAL
PARK]1, ANOTHER AT THE STATE-RUN [UNIVERSITY OF HONDURAS]2, AND ANOTHER AT A
[TRAINING SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS]3.  AT THE SAME TIME, A BOMB EXPLODED AT A
[UNIVERSITY BRANCH]4 IN LA CEIBA.  

   ALL THE BLASTS OCCURRED AT 1130 (LOCAL TIME).  ONLY ONE PERSON WHO
HAPPENED TO BE PASSING BY THE [CENTRAL PARK]1 IN TEGUCIGALPA AT THE TIME OF THE
EXPLOSION WAS WOUNDED AS A RESULT OF THE BLASTS.  A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE
NEW GROUP POINTS OUT THAT "ONE DOES NOT WEEP FOR MARTYRS, BUT AVENGES THEM"
AND ADDS THAT "TRAITOR INDIANS COME BEFORE THE INVADING GRINGOS."

   THE PROCLAMATION CRITICIZES THE MURDER OF POPULAR LEADERS THAT TOOK PLACE
IN THE COUNTRY IN EARLY JULY AND DENOUNCES OTHER LEFTIST LABOR AND GUERRILLA
ORGANIZATIONS.

   THE ARMED FORCES, THROUGH ITS COMMANDER, GENERAL HUMBERTO REGALADO
HERNANDEZ, RESPONDED IMMEDIATELY BY STATING THAT "THE ONLY REAL COMMUNISTS
LEFT IN THE WORLD ARE HONDURANS, BECAUSE THEY ARE CHANGING IN OTHER
COUNTRIES" AND ARE NO LONGER EXPLODING [[[[BOMBS]1]2]3]4.  

   THE MILITARY LEADER ASKED PEOPLE TO ATTACH NO SIGNIFICANCE TO THE
INCIDENT AND SAID THAT SHOULD THE WAVE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE CONTINUE,
LEFTIST GROUPS WOULD HAVE TO BE CALLED TO A DIALOGUE TO AVOID OTHER SIMILAR
ACTIONS.

   THE [[[["9 MAY" [[[[FPL]1]1]2]2]3]3]4]4 PROCLAMATION WAS ISSUED IN THE NORTHERN CITY OF SAN PEDRO
SULA, 255 KM FROM TEGUCIGALPA.

DEAR PEASANT FRIENDS:

   FROM THE VERY 1ST DAY OF OUR ADMINISTRATION, WE HAVE PLEDGED OUR FULL
COMMITMENT TO NATIONAL PROGRAMS AND HAVE SAID THAT "AT NO TIME AND FOR NO
REASON WILL WE FORGET THE MANY NEEDY PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY -- THAT IS, THE
NOBLE AND LONG-SUFFERING PEASANTS, WHO ARE THE MAIN VICTIMS OF TERRORIST
VIOLENCE."  

   THIS CEREMONY REAFFIRMS OUR GOVERNMENT'S COMMITMENT TO CONTINUE AGRARIAN
REFORM.

   WE WANT YOU TO REALIZE THE SERIOUSNESS OF OUR WORDS THROUGH OUR DEEDS.
THIS PRESENTATION OF 8,000 PERMANENT LAND TITLE DEEDS TO THE BENEFICIARIES
OF DECREE 207 -- THROUGH THE NATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTION FOR AGRICULTURAL
LANDS (FINATA) -- REFLECTS OUR OBJECTIVES.

   WE HAVE CATEGORICALLY SAID THAT WE WILL NOT TURN BACK THE AGRARIAN REFORM
PROCESS.  QUITE TO THE CONTRARY, WE WANT TO FULLY SUPPORT IT IN ORDER TO
GUARANTEE THAT PEASANTS IN AREAS AFFECTED BY THE AGRARIAN REFORM ARE FREE TO
CHOOSE THE KIND OF PROPERTY OWNERSHIP THAT BEST SUITS THEIR NEEDS, IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE GREAT FREEDOMS GUARANTEED IN THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS
OF THE REPUBLIC.

   OUR GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED TO WORK HARD TO ENSURE THAT OUR BROTHER
PEASANTS ARE INDEED BENEFITED BY THE AGRARIAN REFORM AND THAT THEY WILL NOT
BE USED AS A DEMAGOGICAL BANNER AT THE SERVICE OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, AS WAS
THE CASE UNTIL RECENTLY.  WE WANT PEASANTS' WELFARE TO BE THE OBJECTIVE OF
OUR AGRARIAN REFORM; WE WANT AGRARIAN REFORM TO DEVELOP WITHIN A LEGAL,
HONEST, AND PATRIOTIC FRAMEWORK.

   WE ARE AGAINST THE DEMAGOGUERY OF STATIC PATERNALISM, BECAUSE WE WANT
PEASANTS TO DETERMINE THEIR OWN FATE, TO TRULY PARTICIPATE IN THEIR
PRODUCTION UNITS' DECISIONMAKING PROCESS, IN THE MARKETING OF THEIR
PRODUCTS, AND IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF REVENUE.

   IT IS NEITHER FAIR NOR CORRECT, AS HAS BEEN THE CASE IN THE PAST, TO
BENEFIT OFFICE WORKERS, WHO HAVE NEVER SWEATED IN THE FIELDS UNDER THE
AGRARIAN REFORM, WHEN YOU -- THE PEASANTS -- ARE NOW FACING DEBTS AND ARE
WORSE OFF THAN BEFORE YOU OWNED LAND.

   OUR GOVERNMENT AND YOU WILL GRADUALLY CHANGE THIS SITUATION TO ENSURE
THAT YOU WILL ENTHUSIASTICALLY WORK YOUR LAND, KNOWING THAT THE FRUIT OF
YOUR LABOR WILL DIRECTLY BENEFIT YOUR FAMILIES.  WE ARE SURE THAT WITH
EFFICIENT ORGANIZATION, PROMPT CREDIT, ADEQUATE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND
THE HARDWORKING LEGACY OF THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE, WE WILL TURN THE AGRARIAN
REFORM INTO AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, WHICH WILL
BENEFIT ALL SALVADORANS BY PROMOTING PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTIVITY.

   DEAR PEASANTS:

   WE WISH TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY TO TELL YOU THAT OUR
GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED TO WORK WITH YOU.  THROUGH THE RELEVANT
ORGANIZATIONS, THE GOVERNMENT WILL IMPLEMENT PROGRAMS TO COMPLETELY UPGRADE
THE SALVADORAN PEASANTS' CONDITIONS.  

   THROUGH FINATA, WE WILL CONTINUE TO FINANCE THE ACQUISITION OF MORE LAND
FOR DISTRIBUTION AMONG THOUSANDS OF PEASANT FAMILIES.

   DEAR FRIENDS:

   OUR GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED TO ACHIEVE PEACE, BECAUSE WE ARE AWARE THAT
THE FMLN'S TERRORIST VIOLENCE DISTURBS THE CALM AND NORMAL PROCEDURE OF
RURAL ACTIVITIES; WE REALIZE THAT WE MUST END THE VIOLENCE SO THAT WE CAN
ALL GO BACK TO WORK AND BRING ABOUT A NATIONAL RECOVERY.  PEASANTS HAVE
SUFFERED THE MOST THROUGHOUT THE CONFLICT UNLEASHED BY THE TERRORIST
MARXIST-LENINIST GROUPS, AND WE BELIEVE THAT THE TIME HAS COME TO SEEK THE
PEACE THAT WE ALL WANT IN ORDER TO RESTORE SOCIAL HARMONY, MUTUAL RESPECT,
AND FRATERNAL LOVE AMONG ALL SALVADORANS WITHOUT EXCEPTION.  

   ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC, WE HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY
PLEASED TO PRESENT THESE PERMANENT LAND TITLE DEEDS TO THE BENEFICIARIES OF
DECREE 207.  WE CONGRATULATE AND INVITE YOU TO CONTINUE WORKING TOGETHER TO
HELP THE FATHERLAND RECOVER FROM THE CRISIS AND TO BUILD FOR OUR CHILDREN
AND ALL SALVADORANS A FUTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, LIBERTY, AND PROGRESS.

LIMA TELEVISION PERUANA
NETWORK IN SPANISH 1733 GMT ON 28 JULY, CONTINUING ITS LIVE COVERAGE
OF FESTIVITIES ON THE OCCASION OF PERUVIAN NATIONAL DAY, BROADCASTS A
SPEECH TO THE NATION BY PERUVIAN PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA LIVE FROM THE
NATIONAL CONGRESS CHAMBER IN LIMA.

   PRESIDENT GARCIA NOTES THAT HIS PRESIDENCY HAS BEEN A TESTIMONY OF FAITH
TO DEMOCRACY BASED ON THE PERUVIAN CONSTITUTION, WHICH PROVIDES THE
FRAMEWORK FOR GOVERNING A FREE PERU.  NOTING THAT THIS SPEECH IS HIS LAST
MESSAGE TO THE COUNTRY FROM CONGRESS, GARCIA BEGINS TO COMMENT ON THE
ACHIEVEMENTS AND EVENTS OF HIS LAST YEAR IN OFFICE.  AFTER STRESSING THE
IMPORTANCE OF DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION TO OVERCOME PROBLEMS OF THE ECONOMY
AND OF VIOLENCE, GARCIA DECLARES:  "I AM HEREBY CALL FOR GENERAL ELECTIONS
TO CHOOSE PRESIDENT AND THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ON 8 APRIL 1990.  APPLAUSE

   "I WOULD LIKE TO REMARK THAT I AM A POLITICIAN, THAT I PARTICIPATE IN
DEBATES, AND THAT MY LIFE IS INDEBTED TO THE APRA (AMERICAN POPULAR
REVOLUTIONARY ALLIANCE) MOVEMENT.  YET AS PRESIDENT I HAVE A MAJOR SACRED
MISSION, THAT OF GUARANTEEING THAT THE ELECTIONS WILL BE ABSOLUTELY FAIR
AND CLEAN."

   GARCIA NOTES THAT THE ELECTORAL AUTHORITIES WILL BE REPLACED AND THAT THE
NATIONAL MEDIA ARE FROM THIS MOMENT ON PLACED AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE
CANDIDATES.  HE CALLS ON THE ARMED FORCES TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY.

   THE PRESIDENT CALLS ON PERUVIAN YOUTH TO ESCHEW VIOLENCE IN FAVOR OF
EDUCATION AND WORKING TOWARD PROMOTING DEMOCRACY.

   GARCIA THEN TURNS HIS ATTENTION TO THE QUESTION OF REGIONALIZATION,
NOTING THAT MANY GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS ARE BEING REORGANIZED TO BETTER
SERVE THE PEOPLE.  WHEN EACH REGION HAS ITS OWN ELECTED OFFICIALS, HE SAYS,
THE PEOPLE WILL EXERT MORE CONTROL OVER OFFICIALS' ACTIVITIES, AND
CORRUPTION WILL BE REDUCED.  PERU WILL NOT NEED TO ACCEPT INTERNATIONAL
SOLUTIONS TO ITS NATIONAL PROBLEMS.

   AFTER CALLING ON THE JUSTICE JUDICIAL BRANCH TO IMPROVE ITS
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, GARCIA ANNOUNCES: "I HEREBY CALL ELECTIONS --
FOLLOWING A CONSULTATION WITH THE NATIONAL ELECTORAL COURT -- FOR REGIONAL
GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GRAU REGION, CREATED ON 1 MARCH 1988, MADE
UP OF THE FOLLOWING PROVINCES: TUMBES, CONTRALMIRANTE VILLAR, ZARUMILLA,
HUANCABAMBA, MORROPON, PAITA, SULLANA, TALARA, AYABACA, AND PIURA ON 12
NOVEMBER 1989."  GARCIA ALSO ISSUES AN OFFICIAL CALL FOR 12 NOVEMBER
ELECTIONS IN THE AMAZONAS, AREQUIPA, AND MOQUEGUA-TACNA-PUNO REGIONS.

   AT 1801 GMT GARCIA BEGINS TO SPEAK ON THE SUBJECT OF TERRORISM AND
VIOLENCE.  HE CALLS ON THE PEOPLE AS WELL AS ALL POLTIICAL PARTIES TO
SUPPORT THE ARMED FORCES IN PUTTING AN END TO VIOLENCE.  HE PROPOSES THAT
TERRORISTS BE TRIED IN MILITARY COURTS.  

   ON THE SUBJECT OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN PERU, PRESIDENT GARCIA
REITERATES THAT HIS GOVERNMENT IS PROMOTING AN INCREASE IN FOREIGN RESERVES
AS WELL AS REACTIVATING THE PRODUCTION SECTOR.  HE NOTES THE IMPORTANCE OF
FURTHER DEVELOPING AGRICULTURE AND PETROLEUM.  HE REVIEWS THE PUBLIC WORKS
PROJECTS, INCLUDING IRRIGATION AND RURAL ELECTRICIFICATION WORKS, THAT HAVE
BEEN INITIATED OR COMPLETED DURING HIS PRESIDENCY.

   GARCIA CALLS ON THE PEOPLE NOT TO BE DEFEATED BY TERRORISM,
SENSATIONALISM, OR PESSIMISM.  NOTING THAT THE PEOPLE ARE PERU'S MOST
IMPORTANT RESOURCE, THE PRESIDENT CALLS FOR IMPROVING THE SOCIAL WELFARE
SECTOR.  HE DENIES THE RUMOR THAT SECTOR WILL BE PRIVATIZED.

   GARCIA ENDS HIS SPEECH AT 1851 GMT.

THE
SO-CALLED [LOS EXTRADITABLES]1 TODAY CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
REPREHENSIBLE ATTACK ON JUDGE [MARIA ELENA DIAZ]1, THIRD JUDGE OF PUBLIC
ORDER, WHO WAS MURDERED ON FRIDAY 28 JULY IN MEDELLIN.  THE GROUP
STATED THIS IN A LETTER SENT TODAY TO THE JUDICIAL ZONE PRESIDENT.

   THE SELF-STYLED [LOS EXTRADITABLES]1 CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT THEY
TERMED THE EXECUTION OF THE PUBLIC OFFICIAL ON 28 JULY.  THE LETTER SENT TO
JUDICIAL ZONE PRESIDENT ANTONIO SUAREZ SAID THAT THE ACTION WAS CARRIED OUT
BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT REFUSES TO ACCEPT A DIALOGUE WITH THE GROUP, AND
EMPHASIZED THAT THE GROUP MEMBERS PREFER A TOMB IN COLOMBIA TO A PRISON CELL
IN THE UNITED STATES.  

   THE GROUP ADDED THAT THEIR ACTIONS IN THE COUNTRY ARE AIMED AT DEFENDING
THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS TO BE FREE AND HAVE A NATIONALITY.

POLICE REPORTED TODAY
THAT [RENE LOPEZ]1, AN IMMIGRATION OFFICIAL AND LEADER OF THE RULING CHRISTIAN
DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDC), WAS SHOT TO DEATH AFTER HE WAS KIDNAPPED BY
[UNIDENTIFIED MEN]1.  

   THE AUTHORITIES DISCLOSED TODAY THAT LOPEZ, WHO WORKED AT THE
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT'S IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT, WAS KIDNAPPED ON 2 AUGUST
AND HIS BODY WAS FOUND IN SOUTHERN GUATEMALA CITY TODAY.  

   LOPEZ' DEATH IS ONE MORE PDC LEADER MURDERED.  [DANILO BARILLAS]3, ANOTHER
PDC LEADER, WAS KILLED ON 1 AUGUST, APPARENTLY BY [EXTREME RIGHTIST GROUPS]3.

   SO FAR, IT IS NOT KNOWN IF THE TWO KILLINGS ARE CONNECTED BECAUSE THE
AUTHORITIES HAVE REMAINED SILENT ABOUT THIS CASE WHICH WAS NOT DISCLOSED
UNTIL TODAY.

   UNOFFICIAL SOURCES NOTED THAT IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE TWO LEADERS KNEW
TOO MANY DETAILS AND POSSIBLY NAMES OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IN COCAINE
TRAFFICKING.

   HOWEVER, LOPEZ' RELATIVES REJECTED THAT HIS MURDER HAD ANY CONNECTION
WITH THE DRUG TRAFFICKING DISCOVERED AT THE AIRPORT THIS WEEK.

   SECURITY FORCES FOUND 22 KG OF COCAINE IN A SUITCASE OWNED BY JOSE
FERNANDO MINRO NAVAS, AN OFFICIAL OF THE PRESIDENCY'S ADMINISTRATIVE
DEPARTMENT, ON 1 AUGUST.  MINRO WAS CAPTURED AND TURNED OVER TO A COURT.

   POLICE SOURCES STATED THAT THEY HAVE CONTINUED THE INVESTIGATIONS TO GET
MORE DETAILS OF THE TWO KILLINGS BUT THEY NEITHER DENIED NOR CONFIRMED ANY
CONNECTION OF SUSPECTED DRUG TRAFFICKERS WITH THE MURDER OF THE PDC
LEADERS.

PRESIDENT MANUEL SOLIS PALMA HAS SAID IN LA PAZ, BOLIVIA THAT PANAMA
IS LIKE A COUNTRY BEING INVADED WITHOUT A SHOT BEING FIRED.  THAT IS
HOW THE PANAMANIAN PRESIDENT DESCRIBED THE PERMANENT U.S. INVASION ON
PANAMANIAN TERRITORY.  HE SAID THAT U.S. SOLDIERS PERMANENTLY VIOLATE
THE PANAMA CANAL TREATIES AND FREQUENTLY OCCUPY UNAUTHORIZED ZONES
WITH TANKS AND SOLDIERS.

   SOLIS PALMA ALSO SAID PANAMA HAS AVOIDED PROVOCATIONS SO THAT THE
INVADERS CANNOT JUSTIFY THEIR ACTIONS, BUT IN CASE OF A CONFRONTATION, THE
PEOPLE AND THE PANAMA DEFENSE FORCES ARE PREPARED TO DEFEND THE NATIONAL
SOVEREIGNTY.

   AS FOR PANAMA'S INTERNAL SITUATION, SOLIS PALMA SAID HIS GOVERNMENT IS
DETERMINED TO ACHIEVE AN UNDERSTANDING WITH THE OPPOSITION AND OTHER SOCIAL
AND POLITICAL GROUPS SO THAT A NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT CAN BE CREATED
BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT THE CANAL BELONGS TO PANAMA AND NATIONAL
SOVEREIGNTY CANNOT BE VIOLATED.

INTERIOR MINISTRY SOURCES TODAY REPORTED
IN LIMA THAT THREE ALLEGED MEMBERS OF THE TUPAC AMARU REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT
(MRTA) HAVE DIED IN A CLASH WITH THE NATIONAL POLICE (PN).  THE GUERRILLAS
WERE TRAVELING IN A STOLEN VEHICLE ON 6 AUGUST, WHEN THEY WERE DETECTED BY A
PN PATROL IN CHICLAYO PROVINCE.  THE PATROL ORDERED THEM TO STOP, BUT THE
GUERRILLAS FLED.  THE POLICE PATROL GAVE CHASE AND CAUGHT THE GUERRILLAS 15
KM FROM CHICLAYO, ON THE ROAD TO CHONGOYAPE.

   A CLASH ENSUED, AND JUAN ZURITA, CESAR ORBEGOZO, AND ERNESTO BENAVIDES
WERE KILLED.  THE INTERIOR MINISTRY BULLETIN REPORTS THAT THE POLICEMEN
SEIZED TWO SUB-MACHINE GUNS, A REVOLVER, AND AN MRTA FLAG FROM THE
GUERRILLAS.

   THE PRO-GUEVARA MRTA STARTED ITS ARMED FIGHT IN 1984, WHEN IT RIDDLED THE
U.S. EMBASSY WITH BULLETS.

   THE MRTA HAS ALSO ATTACKED THE CHINESE, SOVIET, SPANISH, AND ARGENTINE
EMBASSIES.

   IN JANUARY, THE POLICE ARRESTED MRTA'S MAIN LEADER, VICTOR POLAY CAMPOS.
AT LEAST 100 MRTA MEMBERS HAVE BEEN KILLED BY THE POLICE THIS YEAR.  

   POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN PERU, WHICH WAS UNLEASHED BY THE MAOIST SHINING
PATH IN 1980, HAS KILLED MORE THAN 15,000 PEOPLE AND CAUSED LOSSES TOTALLING
SOME $12 BILLION -- SOME 60 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL PERUVIAN FOREIGN DEBT.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE MINERS TODAY REPORTED
IN LIMA THAT PERUVIAN SOLDIERS HAVE ARRESTED AT LEAST 22 MINERS, INCLUDING 4
REGIONAL LEADERS, ON THE EVE OF THE MINERS NATIONAL STRIKE, WHICH IS
SCHEDULED TO BEGIN ON 14 AUGUST.  THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 100,000 MINERS IN
PERU.  

   THE SPOKESMAN TOLD EFE THAT THE SOLDIERS ARRESTED MINERS AT THE LA OROYA,
MOROCOCHA, CASA PALCA, AND AUSTRIA-DUVALZ MINING CAMPS IN THE CENTRAL PART
OF THE MOUNTAIN RANGE.  IN LIMA, THE POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR THE MAIN LEADERS
OF THE MINERS.

   THE FEDERATION OF MINERS AND METALWORKERS HAS CALLED A NATIONAL STRIKE
FOR 14 AUGUST TO PRESSURE THE COURTS INTO RULING IN FAVOR OF A "SINGLE
NATIONAL LIST OF DEMANDS," WHICH WILL ALLOW THE FEDERATION TO REPRESENT ALL
PERUVIAN MINERS AT THE DISCUSSIONS OF LABOR AND SALARY ISSUES.

   ON FRIDAY, 11 AUGUST, THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT ORDERED ARMY SOLDIERS AND
NAVY MARINES TO GUARD MINING CAMPS IN ORDER TO PREVENT POSSIBLE ATTACKS AND
SABOTAGE DURING THE STRIKE, THE FIRST THIS YEAR.

   [TERRORISTS]1 HAVE ATTACKED SEVERAL MINES LATELY AND HAVE KILLED
APPROXIMATELY 12 MINERS, INCLUDING [SAUL CANTORAL]1, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE
FEDERATION.

   THE MINERS WENT ON STRIKE FOR ALMOST 100 DAYS LAST YEAR. THAT STRIKE
CAUSED LOSSES ESTIMATED AT $500 MILLION, ONE-THIRD OF PERU'S OVERALL MINING
EXPORTS.

   THE STRIKE WILL AFFECT CENTRAL PERUVIAN MINING ENTERPRISE, THE LARGEST
STATE-OWNED CORPORATION; THE U.S. COMPANY SOUTHERN PERU COPPER CORPORATION,
WHICH EXPLOITS 75 PERCENT OF THE PERUVIAN COPPER; AND THE ILO REFINERY, THE
SECOND LARGEST IN PERU.

DEFENSE MINISTER HECTOR
HORMACHEA HAS REVEALED THAT THE ARMED FORCES HAVE ASKED TO BE
WITHDRAWN FROM THE STRUGGLE AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING BECAUSE THAT
MISSION HAS THE DIRECT PARTICIPATION OF THE POLICE.

   ORMACHEA EXPLAINED THAT THE ARMED FORCES' ROLE IN DRUG CONTROL WILL BE
EVALUATED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY CHIEFS BEFORE A FINAL DECISION IS
MADE.

   ORMACHEA MADE THESE COMMENTS DURING HIS FIRST NEWS CONFERENCE TO TALK
ABOUT THE VARIOUS ISSUES RELATED TO HIS MINISTRY.

   HE ADDED THAT THE NAVY AND THE AIR FORCE CURRENTLY CARRY OUT A SUPPORT
MISSION IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING, AS THE ENTIRE TASK IS
CARRIED OUT BY THE MOBIL UNITS FOR RURAL AREAS (UMOPAR), WHICH ARE UNDER THE
POLICE.

   IN HIS FIRST WEEK AS THE NEW MINISTER, ORMACHEA HELD PRELIMINARY TALKS
WITH SEVERAL MILITARY CHIEFS TO GET FAMILIAR WITH THE ARMED FORCES' ROLE IN
CONTROLLING DRUG TRAFFICKING.

   HE SAID: "WE MUST CAREFULLY STUDY AND EVALUATE THE SITUATION TO DETERMINE
THE ARMED FORCES' DEGREE OF PARTICIPATION IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST DRUG
TRAFFICKING."

   HE SAID THAT THE ARMED FORCES WANTED TO WITHDRAW FROM THE STRUGGLE
AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING WHEN IT INITIALLY BEGAN, BUT THEY THEN DECIDED TO
CARRY OUT A SUPPORT MISSION.  HE ADDED: WE ARE GOING TO STUDY THIS AT THE
GOVERNMENT LEVEL, WITH THE PRESIDENT MAKING THE FINAL DECISION ON THE ROLE OF
THE ARMED FORCES.

   ORMACHEA ALSO SAID THAT INTERNAL SECURITY IS CLOSELY LINKED TO HOW THE
ARMED FORCES ARE EQUIPPED, BUT ALSO TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY,
ESPECIALLY IN THE POOREST ZONES AND BORDER AREAS.

   HE SAID THAT THERE HAS BEEN TALK LATELY ABOUT TERRORIST ACTIVITIES,
ALTHOUGH THE REPORTS HAVE NOT BEEN VERY CLEAR.  THERE WERE APPARENTLY
INCURSIONS BY UNIDENTIFIED ARMED GROUPS, MURDER, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES THAT
MAY JEOPARDIZE THE COUNTRY'S INTERNAL SECURITY.

   ORMACHEA SAID THAT INTERNAL SECURITY AND NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY WILL
CONTINUE TO BE THE ARMED FORCES' MAIN CONCERN.

   REGARDING THE PRESENCE OF FOREIGN MILITARY ADVISORS INVOLVED IN THE
STRUGGLE AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING, ORMAECHEA NOTED THAT "THAT WORK WILL BE
USEFUL AS LONG AS IT DOES NOT INTERFERE WITH THE WORK OF BOLIVIAN
ORGANIZATIONS."  

   HE CONCLUDED BY SAYING THAT CHANGING THE PREVIOUS DEFENSE MINISTRY'S
POLICY OF ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRALIZATION OF ECONOMIC RESOURCES IS A POSITIVE
STEP. (PASSAGE OMITTED)

A
FEW MINUTES AGO, THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF [CARLOS ERNESTO
VALENCIA GARCIA]1, SUPERIOR CRIMINAL COURT JUDGE OF BOGOTA.  HE IS IN
CHARGE OF THE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE DEATHS OF GUILLERMO CANO, DIRECTOR
OF THE NEWSPAPER EL ESPECTADOR, AND JAIME PARDO LEAL, THE PRESIDENT OF
THE PATRIOTIC UNION.  AT THIS TIME, HE AND ONE OF HIS BODYGUARDS ARE
RECEIVING MEDICAL ATTENTION AT THE SAN PEDRO CLAVER CLINIC.

   WE HAVE RECEIVED A REPORT FROM DIANA MONTOYA FROM THE SCENE OF THE ATTACK
IN DOWNTOWN BOGOTA.

   (MONTOYA) JUDGE VALENCIA GARCIA WAS SHOT A FEW MINUTES AGO HERE ON 13TH
STREET AND 16TH AVENUE.

   JUDGE VALENCIA GARCIA WAS APPARENTLY TRAVELING HOME WHEN HE WAS
INTERCEPTED BY [FOUR [INDIVIDUALS]1 ON TWO MOTORCYCLES]1.  THEY FLED AFTER THE
ATTACK TOWARD WESTERN BOGOTA.

   THE DOCTORS TREATING JUDGE VALENCIA GARCIA HAVE SAID THAT HE IS IN
CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER BEING SHOT THREE TIMES IN THE HEAD.

SENATOR [LUIS CARLOS GALAN]1, LIBERAL
PARTY PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL, WAS SHOT THIS EVENING WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO GIVE
A SPEECH AT MAIN SQUARE OF SOACHA, 15 KM SOUTH OF BOGOTA, IT WAS CONFIRMED
BY POLICE AND HEALTH AUTHORITIES.

   ACCORDING TO THE FIRST REPORTS, [AT LEAST ONE [MAN]1]1 FIRED ON THE SENATOR
FROM AMONG THOSE GATHERED.  THE SENATOR IS CURRENTLY AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM
OF A HOSPITAL IN BOSA, CLOSE TO SOACHA.  TWO OTHER PERSONS WERE WOUNDED
DURING THE ATTACK.

THE MEDICAL AUTHORITIES HAVE REPORTED
THAT [LUIS CARLOS CARLOS GALAN]1, SENATOR AND PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL, DIED
TONIGHT 2 HOURS AFTER HAVING BEEN SHOT IN AN ATTACK.  

   GALAN, 46, WAS MACHINEGUNNED TOGETHER WITH FIVE OTHER PERSONS WHO WERE
WOUNDED WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO DELIVER A SPEECH TONIGHT IN SOACHA, NEAR BOGOTA.

THE
COLOMBIAN-VENEZUELAN BORDER HAS BEEN DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AREA BY THE
COLOMBIAN SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS, WHILE THE ENTRY OF VENEZUELANS TO
THE NEIGHBORING TERRITORY HAS BEEN RESTRICTED AS A RESULT OF THE
SECURITY CRISIS AFFECTING COLOMBIA, A CARACAS NEWSPAPER HAS REPORTED.

   WHILE THE VENEZUELAN NEWSPAPERS REPORTED THE INDIGNATION OF ALL THE
POLITICAL PARTIES AND PEOPLE IN GENERAL CAUSED BY THE ASSASSINATION OF
COLOMBIAN POLITICAL LEADER [LUIS CARLOS GALAN]1, NEWSMEN WAITED TO BE ALLOWED
TO ENTER COLOMBIA.

THE ECUADORAN GOVERNMENT HAS
REINFORCED ITS BORDER CONTROLS ALONG THE LONG AREA IT SHARES WITH COLOMBIA
TO IMPEDE COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS TRYING TO ENTER ECUADOR.  IT ALSO
ANNOUNCED THE EXTENSION OF ITS BINATIONAL AGREEMENTS TO FIGHT THE DRUG
MAFIAS.

   ECUADORAN GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE MINISTER ANDRES VALLEJO WAS CALLED BY
THE OPPOSITION PARTIES TO APPEAR BEFORE CONGRESS WHERE HE SAID, "WE WILL
TAKE ALL THE NECESSARY STEPS TO STOP THE VIOLENCE FROM SPREADING INTO
ECUADOR."  

   "OUR PUBLIC FORCES ARE ON GUARD" ADDED VALLEJO.  HE DID NOT RULE OUT THE
POSSIBILITY THAT COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS, WHOSE OPERATION CENTERS ARE
NEAR THE BORDER, COULD TRY TO ENTER ECUADOR TO ESCAPE FROM THE COLOMBIAN
GOVERNMENT'S OFFENSIVE AFTER THE MEDELLIN CARTEL'S RECENT MURDERS.  

   VALLEJO, WHO IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE STRONGMAN OF THE ECUADOREAN REGIME,
STATED THAT "ECUADOR IS FOREWARNED OF THE DANGER," BUT HE DID NOT, HOWEVER,
ANTICIPATE WHAT MEASURES WOULD BE TAKEN BY PRESIDENT RODRIGO BORJA'S
ADMINISTRATON TO IMPROVE ITS BORDER CONTROLS.

   IN THE PAST YEARS, COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS HAVE PURCHASED FARMS IN
ECUADOR TO ESTABLISH THEIR OPERATION CENTERS, AND IT HAS BEEN NOTICED THAT
ECUADORAN PORTS ARE BEING USED INCREASINGLY TO SHIP DRUGS TO THE UNITED
STATES AND WESTERN EUROPE.  THE MINISTER ADDED "WE ARE FIGHTING DRUG
TRAFFICKING VERY STRONGLY."

AS A
RESULT OF COLOMBIAN PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL [LUIS CARLOS GALAN]1'S MURDER,
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES' SECURITY IN PUBLIC APPEARANCES HAS BECOME A
MAJOR ISSUE.

   FOLLOWING ARE THE MINIMUM SECURITY MEASURES THAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
MUST TAKE INTO ACCOUNT TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND SAVE THEIR LIVES WHEN
ENDANGERED.

   FROM NOW ON SUPPORTERS OF ANY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT
THEY WILL HAVE TO ABIDE BY THE FOLLOWING SECURITY MEASURES DURING THEIR
CANDIDATES' PUBLIC APPEARANCES.

   MEASURES FOR CANDIDATES 

   1. ALL CANDIDATES WILL HAVE TO PLACE THEMSELVES IN THE HANDS OF
THEIR GUARDIAN ANGELS, IN OTHER WORDS TO THEIR CHIEF ESCORT.  THE
CHIEF ESCORT AND THE CANDIDATE WILL JOINTLY PLAN EACH TOUR AND WILL
PROGRAM ALL MOVEMENTS IN DETAIL AND FOLLOW THE PROGRAM TO THE LETTER.

   THE CANDIDATE MUST INFORM THE CHIEF ESCORT OF HIS AGENDA AND OF ANY
THREAT OR INDICATION OF DANGER HE RECEIVES.  THE CANDIDATE MUST USE HIS
ESCORTS EXCLUSIVELY FOR HIS PROTECTION AND FOR NO OTHER USE.

   2. A CANDIDATE'S ESCORTS MUST KNOW THE CANDIDATE'S BLOODTYPE, HIS
ILLNESSES, AND WHICH MEDICINE HE TAKES.  THE ESCORTS MUST ALSO KNOW THE
NAMES OF THE CANDIDATE'S CLOSEST FRIENDS.

   3. THE CANDIDATE MUST LEARN WHAT TO DO IN AN EMERGENCY SITUATION.  HIS
ESCORTS WILL TEACH HIM WHAT TO DO.

   4. NO ONE SHOULD BE SURPRISED IF THE CANDIDATES CHANGE THEIR PLANS AT THE
LAST MINUTE.  THE CANDIDATE MUST NOT FALL INTO A ROUTINE.  HE MUST CHANGE
ROUTES, SCHEDULES, AND PROGRAMS ALWAYS IN CONSULTATION WITH HIS CHIEF ESCORT.

   5. THE CANDIDATE MUST ALWAYS HAVE A DOCTOR IN HIS GROUP.  

   6. EACH CANDIDATE WILL HAVE TO BEAR AN EXTRA BURDEN.  HE WILL HAVE
TO WEAR A HEAVY AND SUFFOCATING BULLET-PROOF VEST.  SUPPORTERS, PLEASE
TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT.

   7. A PUBLIC RALLY IN AN OPEN PLACE AT NIGHT CAN BE DEADLY FOR YOUR
CANDIDATE.  PLEASE EXCLUDE ANY SUCH RALLIES FROM YOUR PLANS.

   8. SAY NO TO THE USE OF FIRECRACKERS AND POWDER KEGS DURING
DEMONSTRATIONS.  SUCH THINGS CONFUSE ESCORTS AND SECURITY CORPS.

   9. SUPPORTERS, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT CROWDS WHO WANT TO SHAKE
CANDIDATES' HANDS OR TOUCH THEM CAN BE DEADLY.  ESCORTS SHOULD NOT ALLOW
SUCH THINGS.

   10. CANDIDATES WILL HAVE TO LIMIT THEIR WALKS IN PUBLIC PLACES AND REDUCE
THEIR SOCIAL ACTIVITIES TO THE MINIMUM.  CANDIDATES WILL VISIT THEIR FRIENDS
AT UNUSUAL HOURS.

   THIS IS HOW SECURITY WILL BE HANDLED FROM NOW ON.  ALL THESE MEASURES
HAVE TURNED CANDIDATES INTO MEN WITH LIMITATIONS.  THEIR SUPPORTERS MUST
UNDERSTAND THEIR CANDIDATES' SITUATION.  CANDIDATES ARE MEN UNDER THE
DICTATORSHIP OF THEIR GUARDIAN ANGELS WHO LOOK AFTER THEIR SAFETY IN TIMES
OF RAGE.

BEFORE ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF COLOMBIA, MINISTER SHAHAL
POINTED OUT: I DO NOT KNOW ABOUT ANY CARTELS IN COLOMBIA, NOR DID I
MEET ANY CATTLE BREEDERS (REFERENCE TO THE PROFESSION CLAIMED (BEGIN
RECORDING) (SHAHAL) WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT RELATIONSHIP WITH COLOMBIA IN
SEVERAL VERY CONCRETE SPHERES.  THESE INCLUDE THE PURCHASE OF COAL,
FOR WHICH WE SIGNED A 4-YEAR CONTRACT DURING MY VISIT THERE ABOUT A
YEAR AGO.  THAT CONTRACT HAS BEEN FULFILLED TO THE SATISFACTION OF
BOTH SIDES.  THE COLOMBIAN COAL IS EXCELLENT, AS IS THE PRICE WE PAY
FOR IT.  WE ARE A VERY GOOD CUSTOMER, AND THE RELATIONS BETWEEN US ARE
VERY CLOSE.  (END RECORDING)

   BY THE WAY, THE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES WAS FORMULATED
BY THE LADY IN THE NEWS, [MONICA DE GREIFF]1, WHO WAS THE ENERGY MINISTRY
DIRECTOR GENERAL DURING MINISTER SHAHAL'S VISIT TO COLUMBIA.  AT PRESENT SHE
IS BOGOTA'S JUSTICE MINISTER, AND IS HIDING IN THE UNITED STATES FROM THE
[DRUG CARTEL]1'S ASSASSINATION THREATS.

   MINISTER SHAHAL STRESSED THAT IN HIS MEETINGS WITH THE ADMINISTRATION
HEADS IN COLOMBIA, THE LATTER HAD LAVISHED PRAISE ON THE ASSISTANCE EXTENDED
BY OUR DEFENSE SECTOR TO COLOMBIA.  

   (BEGIN RECORDING) (SHAHAL) IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE.  ISRAEL TRAINED
COLOMBIAN DEFENSE ESTABLISHMENT ELEMENTS; THIS WAS DONE IN THE
CUSTOMARY WAY AND WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE DEFENSE MINISTER.  COLOMBIA
BOUGHT SECURITY PRODUCTS FROM ISRAEL, SUCH AS THE KFIR PLANES, WHICH
WERE THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COAL PURCHASE.  ON THE DAY I MET WITH THE
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT HE SIGNED AN ORDER APPROVING THE PURCHASE OF THE
KFIR PLANES BY THE COLOMBIAN AIR FORCE.  A DAY LATER WE SIGNED THE
COAL AGREEMENT.  THE TOTAL VALUE OF THE DEAL WAS ABOUT $200 TO $250
MILLION FOR EACH SIDE.  (PASSAGE OMITTED) (END RECORDING)

PRESIDENT JULIO
MARIA SAGUINETTI YESTERDAY SENT A TELEGRAM TO COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT
VIRGILIO BARCO VARGAS EXPRESSING HIS SOLIDARITY OVER THE DEATH OF
SENATOR [LUIS CARLOS GALAN]1.  HE SAID THAT THE "CIVIC SPIRIT" OF THE
PEOPLE WILL TRIUMPH "OVER ORGANIZED CRIME, ITS ACCOMPLICES, AND ITS
PROTECTORS."

   SANGUINETTI ADDED THAT IT WAS "WITH PAIN AND WITH INDIGNATION" THAT HE
RECEIVED THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF THE COLOMBIAN SENATOR, "MURDERED BY
[[CRIMINALS]1 AT THE SERVICE OF SPURIOUS INTERESTS]1."

   SANGUINETTI CONCLUDED BY SAYING THAT HE HOPES THAT "THIS TRAGIC EVENT
WILL STRENGTHEN THE CIVIC SPIRIT WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY TRIUMPH OVER
ORGANIZED CRIME, ITS ACCOMPLICES, AND ITS PROTECTORS."

TWO
UNSUCCESSFUL ATTACKS WERE PERPETRATED IN MEDELLIN LAST EVENING SHORTLY
BEFORE THE CURFEW WAS ENFORCED.  ONE ATTACK WAS AIMED AT THE ECOPETROL
(COLOMBIAN PETROLEUM ENTERPRISE) FUEL STORAGE TANKS AND THE OTHER
AGAINST THE [COUNTRY CLUB]2.  HOWEVER, THE CURFEW RESULTED IN A MIRACLE
LAST NIGHT: NOT A SINGLE PERSON WAS KILLED IN MEDELLIN.

   THE DECREASE IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION INCLUDING BUSES, JITNEYS, AND EVEN
PRIVATE VEHICLES BEGAN AROUND 2100.  PEOPLE LIVING IN MEDELLIN AND ITAGUI
RODE CLINGING TO THE VEHICLES' DOORS IN CLUSTERS IN ORDER TO GET HOME ON
TIME AND AVOID ARREST BY THE AUTHORITIES.

BOGOTA
INRAVISION TELEVISION CADENA 2 BROADCASTS A SERIES OF REPORTS,
TOTALING ABOUT 10 MINUTES, ON THE 2 SEPTEMBER BOMB ATTACK CARRIED OUT
AGAINST THE FACILITIES OF THE BOGOTA NEWSPAPER EL ESPECTADOR.

   THE FIRST REPORT BEGINS BY SAYING THAT THE FACILITIES OF THE
NEWSPAPER EL ESPECTADOR WERE THE "TARGET OF A BRUTAL TERRORIST ATTACK
IN WHICH MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE INJURED."  THE REPORT ADDS THAT
"TODAY A [TRUCK BOMB]1 CARRYING [ALMOST 200 KG OF [DYNAMITE]1]1 WENT OFF AT A
LARGE [GAS STATION]1 LOCATED NEXT TO THE FACILITIES OF THE NEWSPAPER EL
ESPECTADOR.  THE ATTACK IS ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS TERRORIST ATTACKS
CONDUCTED IN BOGOTA IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS."

   THE NEXT REPORT SAYS THAT "TODAY'S EXPLOSION CAUSED A TRUE HOSPITAL
EMERGENCY IN BOGOTA.  ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND 86 OTHERS INJURED,
INCLUDING 6 WHO WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED AS A RESULT OF THE ATTACK."

   THE REPORT STATES THAT "THE NEWSPAPER EL ESPECTADOR WAS VIRTUALLY
PARALYZED TODAY, ALTHOUGH ITS DIRECTORS SAID THAT IT WILL CIRCULATE
TOMORROW NO MATTER WHAT.  HERNANDO SANTOS, CHIEF EDITOR OF THE
COLOMBIAN NEWSPAPER EL TIEMPO, EVEN OFFERED WORKSHOPS AND ROTARY
PRESSES TO ASSEMBLE AND PRINT EL ESPECTADOR IF THAT WERE NECESSARY."

   THE REPORT CONTINUES THAT "LOSSES OF OVER 200 MILLION PESOS
OCCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE EXPLOSION IN WESTERN BOGOTA THIS MORNING.
THE [NEWSPAPER EL ESPECTADOR FACILITIES]1 WERE LEFT AS IF THEY HAD BEEN
BOMBED."  THE REPORT ADDS THAT MOST OF THE INTERIOR WAS "VISIBLY"
DESTROYED AND THAT THERE ARE CRACKS IN THE OUTER AND INNER WALLS OF
THE BUILDING.

   THE REPORT INCLUDES RECORDED STATEMENTS BY EL ESPECTADOR GENERAL
MANAGER ALFONSO CANO WHO STATES THAT "EL ESPECTADOR HAS FOLLOWED A
SPECIFIC LINE FOR THE LAST 102 YEARS.  THAT LINE WILL NOT CHANGE
BECAUSE WE WERE THE TARGETS OF A BOMB ATTACK OR BECAUSE ITS REPORTERS
ARE KILLED.  WE WILL CIRCULATE TOMORROW EVEN IF WE PRINT A 2-PAGE
NEWSPAPER."

   FINALLY, THE REPORT CONCLUDES BY SAYING THAT "IN A FEW MINUTES THE
NEWSPAPER EL ESPECTADOR DIRECTORS WILL ISSUE A COMMUNIQUE ON THE
ATTACK IN WHICH THEY WILL EXPRESS THEIR REJECTION OF THESE TERRORIST
ATTACKS."

LAST NIGHT A [BOMB]1 DESTROYED A
[BRANCH OF THE STATE-OWNED CENTRAL MORTGAGE BANK]1 IN THIS CITY.
MEANWHILE, ANOTHER EXPLOSIVE [DEVICE]2 THROWN AT THE [STATE-OWNED AGRARIAN
FUND]2, NEAR ITAGUI MUNICIPALITY, FAILED TO GO OFF.

   THE POLICE REPORTED THAT THE FIRST TERRORIST ACTION NEARLY
DESTROYED THE CREDIT INSTITUTION LOCATED IN GUAYABAL, ON THE OUTSKIRTS
OF MEDELLIN IN NORTHWESTERN COLOMBIA.

   THE EXPLOSION, WHICH CAUSED NO CASUALTIES, OCCURED AT 0130 GMT ON 7
SEPTEMBER.

   MEANWHILE, A [[DEVICE]2 MADE UP OF 10 KG OF [DYNAMITE]2]2, WHICH WAS THROWN
FROM A MOTORCYCLE AT A BRANCH OF THE AGRARIAN FUND, FAILED TO EXPLODE
BECAUSE ITS DETONATION MECHANISM MALFUNCTIONED.

   THE FAILED ACTION TOOK PLACE IN NEARBY ITAGUI MUNICIPALITY, WHICH
HAS BEEN ENFORCING A CURFEW FOR THE PAST 8 DAYS ALONG WITH MEDELLIN IN
AN ATTEMPT TO CONTROL THE DETERIORATED PUBLIC ORDER SITUATION.

   BEGINNING TONIGHT, THE POLICE AND ARMY WILL REDOUBLE SECURITY
MEASURES IN THESE TWO CITIES, BECAUSE TERRORIST ATTACKS, WHICH HAVE
BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO DRUG TRAFFICKERS WHO ARE WAGING A WAR AGAINST
COLOMBIAN AUTHORITIES, OVER THE PAST WEEK HAVE ALWAYS TAKEN PLACE LATE
IN THE EVENING.

IT WAS LEARNED HERE TODAY THAT A
JUDICIAL ORDER HAS FREED [LUIS FERNANDO GALEANO BERRIO]1 (ALIAS EL
NEGRO), WHO IS ACCUSED OF BEING ONE OF THE FINANCIAL OFFICIALS OF THE
[MEDELLIN CARTEL]1 AND WHO IS SUBJECT TO EXTRADITION TO THE UNITED
STATES.

   GALEANO BERRIO WAS ARRESTED ON 25 AUGUST IN ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT
DURING THE OFFENSIVE THE MILITARY FORCES HAVE LAUNCHED AGAINST THE
DRUG TRAFFICKING "BARONS."  HE WAS RELEASED ON 7 SEPTEMBER, BUT THIS
WAS NOT LEARNED UNTIL TODAY.

   MEDELLIN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION JUDGE 40 (JUEZ 40) ISSUED THE
RELEASE ORDER BECAUSE NO SPECIFIC CHARGE WAS FILED AGAINST HIM.

   THE JUDGE SAID HIS OFFICE DID NOT RECEIVE A REQUEST FROM THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT FOR THE EXTRADITION OF GALEANO BERRIO, WHO APPARENTLY WAS
IN CHARGE OF ACCOUNTING FOR DRUG KINGPING GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA
(ALIAS THE MEXICAN).

   IN ADDITION, GALEANO BERRIO IS ALSO SAID TO BE THE MASTERMIND OF
THE MURDER OF A COUNCILMAN IN CORDOBA DEPARTMENT AND OF BEING INVOLVED
IN A FRUSTRATED PLAN TO KILL AN INDIVIDUAL LINKED TO THE CALI DRUG
CARTEL, WHICH COMPETES AGAINST THE [MEDELLIN CARTEL]1 FOR THE U.S. DRUG
MARKET.

FORMER MEDELLIN MAYOR [PABLO
PELAEZ GONZALEZ]1, 45, WAS SHOT TO DEATH BY [UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUALS]1,
WHILE TRAVELING BETWEEN HIS HOME AND OFFICE TODAY.

   MEDELLIN, THE SECOND-LARGEST CITY IN COLOMBIAN, HAS BEEN SHAKEN BY
THE DRUG TRAFFICKING MAFIA AND HAS BEEN UNDER A NIGHT CURFEW SINCE 30
AUGUST.

AT THE
END OF A SECURITY MEETING, MEDELLIN MAYOR JUAN GOMEZ MARTINEZ
ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THE CURFEW IN MEDELLIN HAS BEEN EXTENDED FOR AN
INDEFINITE PERIOD.  THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT MADE THE DECISION AFTER
LEARNING OF THE KILLING OF [PABLO PELAEZ GONZALEZ]1, PRESIDENT OF THE
HOLASA COMPANY AND MAYOR OF MEDELLIN IN 1984.

COLOMBIAN SECRET POLICE SOURCES
REPORTED THAT THE ALLEDGED DRUG TRAFFICKERS BERNARDO PELAEZ ROLDAN AND
GUILLERMO BUENO DELGADO WERE ARRESTED TODAY.  APPARENTLY, THE UNITED
STATES HAS REQUESTED THAT THESE MEN BE EXTRADITED TO RESPOND TO
CHARGES AGAINST THEM IN THAT COUNTRY.

   IT WAS REPORTED THAT PELAEZ ROLDAN WAS ARRESTED IN BOGOTA AND IS
CHARGED BY A COURT IN DETROIT OF CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE COCAINE IN
THE UNITED STATES.

   BUENO DELGADO WAS ARRESTED BY THE POLICE ON SAN ANDRES ISLAND IN
THE CARIBBEAN AND WAS IMMEDIATELY TRANSFERRED TO BOGOTA AND HANDED
OVER TO JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES.

   ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY, DAS, SPOKESMEN SAID THAT
REQUESTS FOR EXTRADITION OF THE SUSPECTED DRUG LORD HAVE BEEN RECEIVED
FROM FLORIDA AND CALIFORNIA COURTS, WHERE HE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH
SMUGGLING AT LEAST 5,000 KG OF COCAINE INTO THE UNITED STATES AND
LAUNDERING DOLLARS OBTAINED AS A RESULT OF THIS ILLEGAL ACTIVITY.

   LAST WEEK, THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT EXTRADITED THE ALLEDGED
"FINANCIAL HEAD" OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL TO THE UNITED STATES.  HE IS
EDUARDO MARTINEZ ROMERO AND HAS TO ANSWER CHARGES IN AN ATLANTA COURT
OF "LAUNDERING" MORE THAN $1.2 BILLION THROUGH A PANAMANIAN BANK.

   THE [DRUG-TRAFFICKING MAFIAS]1 HAVE THREATENED TO MURDER 10 JUDGES FOR
EACH COLOMBIAN EXTRADITED TO ANOTHER COUNTRY, AND THIS THREAT HAS THE
WHOLE COUNTRY TENSE AND ANXIOUS.

   THERE ARE RUMORS CIRCULATING IN SEVERAL CITIES THAT NARCOCRIMINAL
ORGANIZATIONS ARE PREPARING AN OPERATION CALLED "BLACK SEPTEMBER" THAT
WILL BE IMPLEMENTED NEXT WEEKEND BY POISONING WATER SUPPLIES AND
ATTACKING COMMERCIAL CENTERS AND NIGHT CLUBS.

THE SETTING OF EXPLOSIVE DEVICES AND THE KIDNAPPINGS ARE
AN ATTEMPT BY SOME TO GIVE THE GOVERNMENT JUSTIFICATION FOR USING A
STRONG HAND, PRESIDENT CEREZO SAID.  THE PRESIDENT STRESSED THAT THE
BOMBS AND THE (WORDS INDISTINCT) OF CANDIDATES IS THE WORK OF
TERRORISTS.  REPORTING THAT THE RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATIONS WILL BE
PRESENTED IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS, CEREZO AREVALO URGED CITIZENS TO HELP
IN THE EFFORTS TO CONTROL VIOLENCE.

   (CEREZO) "FIRST, WE NEED THE PEOPLE'S WILLINGNESS TO HELP, WHICH
IMPLIES HAVING THE COURAGE TO PASS ON INFORMATION TO THE GOVERNMENT,
BECAUSE PEOPLE FEAR REPRISALS FROM CRIMINALS.  HOWEVER, IF WE ARE NOT
ALL UNITED TO FIGHT CRIME AND TERRORISM, WE GUATEMALANS WILL CERTAINLY
BE AFFECTED SERIOUSLY IN THE FUTURE BY THIS KIND OF VIOLENCE, WHICH
SEEMS TO BE SPREADING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, AS WE HAVE SAID IN THE
PAST.

   "SECOND, I HAVE NOTICED THAT SOME SECTORS HAVE TURNED TO THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY BY REQUESTING THAT HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
REPRESENTATIVES BE SENT HERE, AS IF THE GOVERNMENT (WORDS INDISTINCT).
PEOPLE ARE AWARE THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT RESPONSIBLE, YET THEY HOLD THE
GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE.  I BELIEVE THAT WHAT WE SHOULD DO IS TURN TO
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY -- THE GOVERNMENT WILL DO THIS -- SO THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CAN HELP US CONTROL TERRORISM.

   "THIRD, I MUST RECOGNIZE THAT ONE OF THE PARTIES, THE UNION OF THE
NATIONAL CENTER, HAS ADOPTED A POSITIVE ATTITUDE BY MAKING SUGGESTIONS
TO THE GOVERNMENT ON HOW TO CONTROL CRIME.  WE ARE GOING TO STUDY
THEIR PROPOSALS.  WE BELIEVE THAT ALTHOUGH THE PROPOSALS COME FROM AN
OPPOSITION PARTY, WE SHOULD ANALYZE THEM.  WE URGE ALL SECTORS IN
GUATEMALAN SOCIETY NOT TO SIMPLY ADOPT THE EASY ATTITUDE OF ACCUSING
THE GOVERNMENT.  WE SHOULD INSTEAD ADOPT THE ATTITUDE OF REJECTING
CRIME."

   REGARDING THE PROPOSALS HE WILL MAKE DURING HIS UPCOMING VISIT TO
THE UN HEARDQUARTERS AND THE RECENT ATTACKS IN GUATEMALA, WHICH HE
SAID ARE AIMED AT DESTROYING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS ACHIEVED DURING THE
DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, CEREZO AREVALO ADDED:

   (CEREZO) "AMONG THE ISSUES WE ARE GOING TO POINT OUT IS THAT, AT
THIS MOMENT, GUATEMALA IS THE TARGET OF AN ATTEMP TO UNDERMINE THE
CONSOLIDATION OF DEMOCRACY.  WE ARE GOING TO NEED THE HELP OF
DEMOCRACIES THAT ARE FRIENDS OF GUATEMALA, BUT NOT IN THE CAPACITY OF
JUDGES.  WE ARE GOING TO NEED TOTAL SUPPORT TO CONTROL A DOMESTIC AND
INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST OFFENSIVE THAT IS TAKING PLACE IN THE COUNTRY
AND THAT SEEKS TO DESTROY THE REPUBLIC."

   THERE ARE PEOPLE INTERESTED IN HAVING THE LARGE NUMBER OF REFUGEES
WHO HAVE RETURNED TO THE COUNTRY SINCE CEREZO WAS SWORN IN LEAVE THE
COUNTRY AGAIN TO DISCREDIT GUATEMALA, PRESIDENT CEREZO SAID.

   (CEREZO) "DURING 3 AND 1/2 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY, IN WHICH WE
IMPLEMENTED PLANS AND GUARANTEED THE RIGHTS OF ALL CITIZENS, GUATEMALA
BEGAN TO WELCOME ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE: REFUGEES -- GUATEMALANS WHO HAVE
BEEN LIVING IN EXILE FOR YEARS IN MEXICO AND OTHER COUNTRIES; PEOPLE
WHO HAD BEEN THREATENED AND WHO WERE LIVING IN COSTA RICA AND WHO HAVE
RETURNED.  WE DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHERE THESE PEOPLE WORK BECAUSE, FOR
US, THEY ARE GUATEMALANS WHO HAVE RETURNED.  HOWEVER, WE ARE BEGINNING
TO RECEIVE REPORTS FROM THEM.  THEY HAVE TOLD US THEY ARE BEING
SYSTEMATICALLY THREATENED OVER THE TELEPHONE.  WHO KNOWS WHERE THESE
PEOPLE ARE OR HOW THEY GOT THEIR TELEPHONE NUMBERS?  HOW IS THIS DONE?
THERE ARE PEOPLE INTERESTED IN HAVING THESE FORMER REFUGEES LEAVE THE
COUNTRY TO AGAIN REPORT THAT WE ARE VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS IN
GUATEMALA TO CREATE A CLIMATE OF INTERNATIONAL ISOLATION.  I WOULD SAY
WE ARE BEING AFFECTED BY TWO TRENDS THAT ARE FIGHTING AGAINST
GUATEMALAN DEMOCRACY." (CONTINUED)

BANKS WERE THE TARGETS THIS AFTERNOON OF NEW TERRORIST ATTACKS IN
BOGOTA.  UNTIL THEN, IT WAS A QUIET AFTERNOON ON THIS DAY OF
FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE.  [TWO [[DYNAMITE]1 CHARGES]1]1 WERE DETONATED NEAR THE DAS
(ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY) OFFICES IN THE PALO QUEMAO
NEIGHBORHOOD, DESTROYING THE BRANCH OFFICES OF THE [BANCO POPULAR]1 AND
THE [BANCO SANTANDER]1.  TWO PERSONS WERE SLIGHTLY INJURED AND DAMAGE IS
ESTIMATED AT OVER 100 MILLION PESOS.  THE [TWO [BOMBS]1]1 EXPLODED AT
APPROXIMATELY 1700 IN THE BRANCH OFFICES OF TWO BANKS, IN PALO QUEMAO,
JUST TWO BLOCKS FROM THE DAS OFFICES.  THE EXPLOSION OF [17 KG OF
[DYNAMITE]1]1 DESTROYED THE BANK BRANCHES AND DAMAGED 20 NEIGHBORING
[STORES]1.

   THE AUTHORITIES ARE CARRYING OUT A VAST OPERATION THROUGHOUT BOGOTA
TO FIND THE INDIVIDUALS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ATTACK.

THE 13TH
INFANTRY BRIGADE HAS REPORTED THAT FOLLOWING A SERIES OF ACTIONS BY
SPECIAL URBAN TROOPS, [[[FOUR [[[PERSONS]1]1]2]2]3]3 WHO ARE APPARENTLY INVOLVED IN THE
MURDER OF DR [LUIS CARLOS GALAN SARMIENTO]1 HAVE BEEN ARRESTED.  THEY ARE
ALSO CONNECTED TO THE [CAR [BOMB]2]2 ATTACK ON THE [NEWSPAPER [EL ESPECTADOR]2]2,
TO A SERIES OF BOGOTA DYNAMITE ATTACKS, TO THE FREEING OF A GROUP OF
PAID ASSASSINS, AND TO THE MURDER OF DR [TEOFILO FORERO CASTRO]3, HIS
WIFE, AND TWO OTHER PEOPLE WHO WERE ACCOMPANYING THEM.  GENERAL RAMON
EDUARDO NIEBLES UZCATEGUI, COMMANDER OF THE 13TH INFANTRY BRIGADE HAS
SAID THAT AT LEAST TWO OF THOSE ARRESTED HAVE FULLY CONFESSED TO
HAVING TAKEN PART IN THE MURDER OF [LUIS CARLOS GALAN SARMIENTO]1 IN
SOACHA, CUNDINAMARCA.

IN BOGOTA, ORDERS HAVE BEEN ISSUED TO PLACE
BANKS UNDER PERMAMENT MILITARY PROTECTION.  LAST NIGHT [TWO [BOMBS]1]1
EXPLODED AT [BRANCHES OF THE [POPULAR AND OCCIDENTE BANKS]1]1 IN DOWNTOWN
BOGOTA.  A MINOR WAS WOUNDED.

   TO STOP THE WAVE OF ATTACKS ON BANKS AND FINANCIAL COMPANIES, THE
DEFENSE MINISTRY THIS MORNING PLACED ALL BANKING AREAS IN THE CITY
UNDER MILITARY CONTROL.  THE SOLDIERS WILL REMAIN IN CHARGE (AL
FRENTE) OF THESE INSTALLATIONS AROUND THE CLOCK.

THE U.S.
SENATORS HAVE MADE A MISTAKE.  THEY HAD A GREAT DEBATE TO (WORDS
INDISTINCT) A SIGN SHOWING THEIR WILLINGNESS TO HELP SUPPORT THE
CRISTIANI GOVERNMENT.  HOWEVER, THEY VOTED IN FAVOR OF CONTINUING WITH
THE MILITARY AID (WORDS INDISTINCT).  THEY APPROVED AID THAT WILL BE
INVESTED IN WAR, WHICH WE BELIEVE IS NOT A SIGN OF PEACE.  THERE WERE
TWO POSITIONS AT THE SENATE: THOSE WHO ADVOCATED THAT THE AID BE
DIVIDED IN THREE PACKAGES TO CONTINUE THE DELIVERY OF THE LAST PORTION
OF THE AID TO THE GOVERNMENT AMID THE DIALOGUE PROCESS, AND THOSE WHO
WANTED TO GIVE UNCONDITIONAL AID TO CRISTIANI, A POSITION BASICALLY
DEFENDED BY CHRISTOPHER DODD.  SENATOR DODD HIMSELF SAID THIS AID IS
ALLEGEDLY TO ENCOURAGE CRISTIANI BECAUSE HE IS ACCOMPLISHING WHAT THE
UNITED STATES HAS BEEN TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE PAST 10 YEARS.

   HOWEVER, THE U.S. SENATORS MADE A MISTAKE. THEY VOTED FOR THE
UNCONDITIONAL AID WHICH ACTUALLY ENCOURAGES THE MILITARY MEN AND THE
HARDLINERS IN ARENA (NATIONALISTIC REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE) WHO ARE
BLOCKING THE POLITICAL SOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT AND WHO UNREASONABLY
PROMOTE THE CONTINUATION OF THE WAR.  THIS IS NOT A SIGN FOR THE
MODERATES.  THE VOTING FOR UNCONDITIONAL AID IS INTERPRETED BY THE
FASCISTS, THE WARMONGERING, THE ARENA (WORDS INDISTINCT) AS A BLANK
CHECK TO CONTINUE WITH THE ADVENTURE OF WAR.  THIS WAS THE TIME FOR
U.S. DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS TO SUPPORT WITH THEIR VOTING THE
REGIONAL EFFORT AND THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE'S EFFORT TO ATTAIN PEACE IN
EL SALVADOR.

   THE FMLN (FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT) HAS TAKEN
UNMISTAKABLE STEPS THAT EXPRESS ITS WILLINGNESS TO HELP ATTAIN PEACE.
HOWEVER, IT SEEMS THE U.S. SENATORS ARE MISINFORMED ABOUT EVENTS IN EL
SALVADOR: THE INCREASE IN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, THE ARRESTS, THE
BOMBINGS, THE WAR PARADES, AND THE HARASSMENT OF THE PRESS.  IN SUM,
THESE ARE WAR ACTIONS AMID A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DEMAND FOR
NEGOTIATIONS TO ATTAIN PEACE.

   THE U.S. SENATORS MADE A MISTAKE.  WAR ACTIONS IN EL SALVADOR ARE
CONTRARY TO THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE AND CLEARLY COME
FROM THE (WORDS INDISTINCT), THE ARENA HARDLINERS.  THEY ALSO ALSO
FROM THE U.S. SENATORS WHO VOTED IN FAVOR OF THE UNCONDITIONAL AID.
THEREFORE, THE U.S. SENATORS GAVE A SIGN (WORDS INDISTINCT) ARE
ENCOURAGING THE WAR WITH THIS BLANK CHECK TO THE ARENA GOVERNMENT.

DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS
COLOMBIAN SECRET POLICE HAVE ARRESTED 30 CRIMINALS WHO BELONG TO A
BAND OF HIRED ASSASSINS OPERATING IN THE CONFLICTIVE MIDDLE MAGDALENA
AREA OF THE COUNTRY'S CENTRAL REGION.

   AN OFFICIAL REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SECURITY
(DAS) -- THE SECRET INTELLIGENCE AGENCY THAT ADVISES COLOMBIAN
PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO -- SAYS THAT 15 OF THOSE ARRESTED ARE
IMPLICATED IN MURDERS.

   IN ADDITION, THE DAS MANAGED TO DISMANTLE FOUR GROUPS OF HIRED
ASSASSINS KNOWN AS "THE COCKROACHES, "THE PLATEAUS," "THE SMUDGED
ONES," AND "DEATH TO KIDNAPPERS" (MAS).

   MEANWHILE, THE ARMY HAS REPORTED THAT NINE PRIVATELY-OWNED, LIGHT
AIRCRAFT USED IN DRUG TRAFFICKING WERE CONFISCATED DURING VARIOUS
OPERATIONS CONDUCTED THIS WEEK.  THE AIRCRAFT HAVE BEEN DELIVERED TO
THE NATIONAL DRUG COUNCIL AND THEIR OWNERS ARE UNDER INVESTIGATION.

   THE TWO OPERATIONS ARE PART OF THE OFFICIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST DRUG
TRAFFICKING MAINTAINED BY BARCO'S GOVERNMENT SINCE 18 AUGUST.

WHAT
IS THE TRUTH OVER THE SIGNING OF THE DECREES?  WERE THEY SIGNED ONLY
AFTER THE ATTACK ON [LUIS CARLOS GALAN]1?

   (DE GREIFF) THE DECREES WERE BEING STUDIED SINCE NOON ON THE DAY OF
HIS DEATH.  IT HAD BEEN A VERY TOUGH WEEK.  THE MAGISTRATE AND THE
COLONEL HAD BEEN MURDERED; GALAN WAS MURDERED THAT EVENING.  THERE WAS
MUCH DISCUSSION OVER THE DRAFTS, BUT I BELIEVE THAT THE ATTACK ON
GALAN HURRIED THINGS UP.

   IN THE CASE OF THE EXTRADITION DECREE, WE WERE ALL AWARE THAT IT
WAS NOT A POPULAR MEASURE.  PHILOSOPHICALLY, MOST MINISTERS DID NOT
LIKE THE IDEA OF COLOMBIANS BEING TRIED ABROAD.  THERE WAS MUCH LEGAL
DISCUSSION, NOT ONLY TO DO WITH THIS CASE, BUT ALSO OVER THE NEW
MEASURES CONCERNING RAIDS, SEIZURES, AND ARRESTS.

   HOWEVER, FINALLY THERE WAS A GREAT DETERMINATION TO GIVE THE
COUNTRY ANSWERS.

   (REPORTER) THE COUNTRY'S CURRENT PROBLEMS HAVE MUCH TO DO WITH THE
EXTRADITION DECREE.

   (DE GREIFF) WE MUST NOT FORGET THAT THESE MEASURES ARE NOT AGAINST
A GROUP OF PEOPLE, BUT AGAINST VIOLENCE.  EXTRADITION HAS BEEN A VERY
TOUGH MEASURE FOR EVERYONE.  THE INCONVENIENCES AND THE LEGALITY OF
THIS DECREE, AS WELL AS THE POSSIBLE REACTIONS AGAINST IT, WERE
DISCUSSED A GREAT DEAL.  IT CAN BE THAT PART OF THE VIOLENCE GENERATED
HAS BEEN DUE TO THE EXTRADITION DECREE.

   (REPORTER) IS IT POSSIBLE TO BEGIN A DIALOGUE WITH THE DRUG
TRAFFICKERS AS A WAY OF ENDING THE COUNTRY'S VIOLENCE?

   (DE GREIFF) THE GOVERNMENT SAID NO TO THE DIALOGUE, BUT WE MUST
WAIT AND SEE HOW EVENTS DEVELOP.  I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT A GOVERNMENT'S
DECISION CAN BE STRICT, BECAUSE SITUATIONS DO CHANGE.  THE PRESIDENT
HAS SAID THAT DIALOGUE IS IMPOSSIBLE.  YOU NEVER KNOW, THINGS MAY
CHANGE IN THE FUTURE.

   ANYWAY, IN COLOMBIA PRACTICALLY NO WARS HAVE ENDED, BECAUSE IN
NEARLY ALL WARS AN AGREEMENT WAS REACHED.

   (REPORTER) BUT IF COLOMBIA HOLDS A DIALOGUE, THE WORLD'S DOORS WILL
PROBABLY CLOSE ON COLOMBIA.

   (DE GREIFF) LOOK, IN THE UNITED STATES I WAS ASKED ABOUT THE
EXTRADITION AND I SAID IT WAS NOT POPULAR, THAT IT WAS NOT GOING TO
SOLVE THE DRUG TRAFFICKING PROBLEM.  IT IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S
STANCE, BUT IF IT IS DECIDED TO HOLD A DIALOGUE, THEN THIS WOULD BE A
SOVEREIGN COLOMBIAN DECISION.  OBVIOUSLY, IF THE POSITION CHANGES A
BAD IMPRESSION WILL BE GIVEN.

   THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN VERY CLEAR THAT IT HAS NOT LOST ITS
SOVEREIGNTY.

   (REPORTER) THE INTERNATINAL PRESS FEELS A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED WITH
YOUR RESIGNATION.  ONE MUST NOT FORGET THAT YOU BECAME A SYMBOL FOR
THE FOREIGN JOURNALISTS WHEN YOU TRAVELED TO WASHINGTON.

   (DE GREIFF) I HELD A NEWS CONFERENCE ON 22 SEPTEMBER AND I TOLD
THEM THAT MY RESIGNATION WAS NOT MONICA DE GREIFF'S POSITION, BUT THE
GOVERNMENT'S.  I TOLD THEM I WAS STAYING IN THE COUNTRY, AND I
EXPLAINED TO THEM THAT THE MINISTERS HERE REMAIN AT THEIR POSTS UNTIL
THE PRESIDENT DECIDES OTHERWISE.  HOWEVER, THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND
WHY.

   (REPORTER) WHAT WILL MONICA DE GREIFF DO?

   (DE GREIFF) I AM GOING TO REST FOR A FEW DAYS AND THEN RETURN.  I
AM GOING TO HELP ERNESTO SAMPER'S CAMPAIGN.  I ALSO BELIEVE THAT
WORKING FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE WILL BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY.

   (REPORTER) WHAT POST HAS GIVEN YOU THE GREATEST SATISFACTION?

   (DE GREIFF) WHEN I WAS AT THE MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY. IT WAS
FASCINATING.  I HAD TWO VERY GOOD BOSSES: GUILLERMO PERRY AND OSCAR
MEJIA.  I WORKED IN DELIGHTFUL HARMONY WITH A GROUP OF GOOD PEOPLE.  I
BELIEVE THAT MINING AND HYDROCARBONS IS THE SECTOR THAT HAS ENJOYED
THE GREATEST PROGRESS UNDER THIS GOVERNMENT.

   (REPORTER) WHAT IS YOUR FINAL FEELING UPON LEAVING THE MINISTRY?

   (DE GREIFF) EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING.  I HAVE BEEN SPARED
FROM MANY BORING THINGS.  I HAVE NOT HAD TO SIGN EXTRADITION ORDERS OR
THINGS LIKE THAT.  WITHOUT REALIZING IT, I HAVE BEEN SPARED OF TIRING
THINGS.

THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF PEOPLES MEANS NATIONS HAVE THE
ABILITY TO SETTLE THEIR DOMESTIC PROBLEMS BY THEMSELVES.  BASED ON
THIS VIEW, SEVERAL OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST OUSTANDING DEMOCRATS AND
DUPES DENOUNCED FOREIGN MILITARY AID TO FIGHT DRUG TRAFFICKING, A
SCOURGE THAT BECAME AN INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM A LONG TIME AGO AND IS
WEAKENING COLOMBIAN SOVEREIGNTY.

   I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THOSE WHO ARE NOW MOST OPPOSED TO THE PRESENCE
OF U.S. MILITARY ADVISERS AND EXPERTS ARE THOSE WHO REGARD THIS
PRESENCE AS A SERIOUS OBSTACLE TO THE ARMED ORGANIZATIONS THEY PROMOTE
AND THAT ARE TRAINED BY LIBYAN, BRITISH, CUBAN, AND ISRAELI EXPERTS.

   IT IS OBVIOUS THAT SOVEREIGNTY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENT FOR
THE EXISTENCE OF A STATE.  HOWEVER, WE LOST OUR SOVEREIGNTY LONG AGO
AND TO REGAIN IT WE MUST ACCEPT ALL THE AID THE HONEST INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY CAN OFFER US.

   SOVEREIGNTY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, MEANS ADOPTING DECISIONS BASED ON
THE NEEDS OR PREFERENCES OF THE NATION AS A WHOLE.  THAT STOPPED
HAPPENING IN COLOMBIA WHEN THE DRUG TRAFFICKERS BEGAN TO INTIMIDATE
AND DESTROY THE LEGITIMATE INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE.  HOW CAN WE TALK
OF SOVEREIGNTY WHEN WE SEE THAT OUR PEOPLE HAVE FALLEN PREY TO
TERRORISM; THAT THEY ARE LIVING AND DYING ENSLAVED BY DAILY BOMBINGS
AND LIES; THAT THEY ARE GOVERNING UNDER THE PRESSURE OF THREATS; THAT
THEY HAVE SOUGHT REFUGE IN A HOME IMPRISONED BY FEAR?  IT IS ABSURD TO
TALK OF A TRULY SOVEREIGN STATE WHEN IT IS KNOWN THAT SEVERAL OF THE
COUNTRY'S TOP POLITICAL AND BUSINESS LEADERS ARE INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL
ACTIVITIES.  AN ACT OF SOVEREIGNTY -- ONE IN THE MIDST OF SO MUCH
SUBJUGATION -- WOULD BE TO STRIP OURSELVES OF SO MUCH VAIN PRIDE AND
ACCEPT THE FACT THAT WE ARE WEAK AND NEED ALL THE HELP OFFERED BY
ANYONE WHOSE INTENTIONS ARE BASED ON THE LAW.  MOREOVER, IT IS IRONIC
THAT SEVERAL OF THOSE WHO ARE CLAMORING FOR "THE DEFENSE OF
SOVEREIGNTY" ARE THE SAME ONES WHO ARE NOW ASKING THE U.S.  GOVERNMENT
TO EXPLAIN THE CANCELLATION OF VISAS.  IS IT NOT A MATTER OF NATIONAL
SOVEREIGNTY TO DECIDE WHO CAN AND CANNOT ENTER THAT COUNTRY?

   I AM REMINDED OF THOSE THOUSANDS OF CASES OF FOOD AND MEDICINE
DONATED TO COLOMBIA FOLLOWING THE ARMERO CATASTROPHE THAT ROTTED IN
THE COUNTRY'S CUSTOMS WAREHOUSES.  ARMERO IS THE BURIAL GROUND FOR
30,000 COLOMBIANS AND THE SCENE OF THE TRAGEDY OF THOUSANDS MORE.
DESPITE THE REGRETTABLE END THAT THIS AID MET IN SO MANY WAREHOUSES,
NOBODY OPPOSED INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH THAT CORNER OF TOLIMA
DEPARTMENT.

   THE WAR ON DRUG TRAFFICKERS COULD BURY US.  LET US STRUGGLE FOR
SOVEREINGTY AND ACCEPT THE ADVICE OFFERED BY THE UNITED STATES, OR WE
WILL END UP ROTTING IN A WAREHOUSE FILLED WITH WHITE POWDER.

ISRAELI ANTITERROR SECURITY INSTRUCTORS IN PERU HAVE BEEN
DECLARED PERSONA NON GRATA AND ARE NOT BEING ALLOWED TO ENTER PERU.
THIS WAS LEARNED BY OUR CORRESPONDENT FROM SOURCES CLOSE TO ISRAELI
COMPANIES DEALING WITH THE SALE OF SECURITY KNOW-HOW.

   THE LONDON OBSERVER, QUOTING PERUVIAN CONGRESS MEMBERS, REPORTED
THAT EVIDENCE CONCERNING ISRAELI INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRAINING OF A
RIGHT-WING TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IN LIMA DISAPPEARED FROM THE FILES
OF A CONGRESSIONAL COMMISSION PROBING ISRAELI INVOLVEMENT IN PERU.
OUR CORRESPONDENT HANAN 'AZRAN HAS MORE DETAILS:

   THE REPORTS IN THE LONDON OBSERVER APPARENTLY STEM FROM LEFT-WING
CIRCLES AND PERUVIAN GUERRILLA GROUPS.  THE MOST PROMINENT GROUP IS
THE SHINING PATH, A GUERRILLA GROUP AIMING TO OVERTHROW THE REGIME.
THESE CIRCLES CONTEND THAT ISRAELIS TRAIN WHAT THEY TERM THE
RIGHT-WING DEATH, OR TERROR, SQUADS.  THEY APPARENTLY REFER TO THE
RODRIGO FRANCO COMMANDO UNITS, TO WHICH THE LIQUIDATION OF GUERRILLA
MEMBERS AND OF OPPONENTS TO THE REGIME IS ATTRIBUTED.

   POLITICAL CIRCLES IN JERUSALEM HAVE SAID THAT THESE CLAIMS OF
ISRAELI INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRAINING OF DEATH SQUADS ARE GROUNDLESS.

   ISRAELI COMPANIES ARE INVOLVED IN MILITARY TRAINING AND IN
MANEUVERS IN PERU.  ISRAELI EXPERTS HAVE SET UP THE PERUVIAN ARMY'S
ANTITERROR SQUAD.  ONE OF THE SQUAD'S FOUNDERS WAS GABI KOHEN, A
FORMER ISRAEL POLICE ANTITERROR UNIT COMMANDER.  GABI KOHEN WAS A
PARTNER IN THE DAT COMPANY, WHICH OFFERED SIMILAR TRAINING AND
INSTRUCTION SERVICES TO ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND
ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD.

   DAT OPERATED IN PERU WITH THE PERMIT OF SIBAT, THE DEFENSE MINISTRY
DEFENSE SALES DEPARTMENT.  ONE MEMBER OF THE COMPANY WAS A SENIOR
BORDER POLICE OFFICER, FORMER BORDER POLICE COMMANDER TZVI BAR, WHO
RETIRED FROM THE COMPANY AFTER A SHORT PERIOD, TURNING TO OTHER
ENTERPRISES.

   ONE COMPANY WITH DIVERSE OPERATIONS IN PERU WAS THE ISDS OWNED BY
LEO GLASER, ALSO AN IDF (ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES) ELITE UNIT GRADUATE.
ISDS HAD PERMANENT OFFICES IN LIMA HEADED BY RAN GAZIT, WHO LATER
OPENED A BUSINESS OF HIS OWN ELSEWHERE.  THE COMPANY HAD DEFENSE
MINISTRY APPROVAL FOR ITS WORK IN PERU.  ACCORDING TO ITS DIRECTORS,
IT TRAINED SECURITY GUARDS FOR CIVILIAN BUSINESSES ONLY, INCLUDING THE
USE OF FIREARMS AND PROTECTION MEASURES.

THE AUTHORITIES OF THE EASTERN
DEPARTMENT OF ARAUCA, IN THE OIL PRODUCING SECTOR OF THE COUNTRY, HAVE
ANNOUNCED THAT MSGR [JESUS EMILIO JARAMILLO]1 WAS MURDERED AND THAT HIS
BODY WAS FOUND TODAY.  THE AUTHORITIES BLAMED THE LEFTIST [ARMY OF
NATIONAL LIBERATION]1 ([ELN]1) GUERRILLAS FOR THE MURDER.

   YESTERDAY [SEVERAL [ARMED MEN]1]1 KIDNAPPED JARAMILLO, THE BISHOP OF
ARAUCA, AND HIS ASSISTANT, [ELMER MUNOZ]1, BUT LATER RELEASED THE LATTER.

   GENERAL RAFAEL PADILLA, COMMANDER OF THE 2D ARMY DIVISION,
CONFIRMED THAT BISHOP JARAMILLO DIED FROM TWO GUNSHOTS TO THE HEAD.
HE BLAMED THE [ELN]1'S [DOMINGO LAIN FRONT]1 FOR THE CRIME.

   GEN PADILLA PRAISED MSGR JARAMILLO'S WORK OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS
IN FAVOR OF THE POOR IN ARAUCA DEPARTMENT, BUT DID NOT EXPLAIN WHAT
REASONS THE GUERRILLAS COULD HAVE HAD FOR MURDERING THE PRELATE.

   THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT A CHURCH OFFICIAL OF SUCH HIGH RANKING
HAS BEEN MURDERED IN COLOMBIA.

   THE [ELN]1, THE MOST ACTIVE AND VIOLENT GUERRILLA GROUP IN THE
COUNTRY, HAS REPEATEDLY REJECTED THE OFFERS OF PEACE FROM THE LIBERAL
ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO. THE [ELN]1--WHICH IS LED BY
MANUEL PEREZ, A SPANISH CITIZEN AND FORMER PRIEST--HAS MADE THE
COUNTRY'S OIL INFRASTRUCTURE THE MAIN TARGET OF ITS TERRORIST
ACTIVITIES.

TODAY PRESIDENT CARLOS MENEM
SAID THAT HE IS WILLING TO ACCEPT "ALL THE POLITICAL COSTS THAT MAY
EMERGE" FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL PARDON TO MILITARY MEN AND CIVILIANS WHO
VIOLATED HUMAN RIGHTS.  THE PARDON WAS ORDERED WITH THE SIGNING OF
SEVERAL DECREES TODAY.

   MENEM TALKED WITH REPORTERS ABOUT THE PARDON.  HE SAID: "I CANNOT
ESTIMATE WHAT THE POLITICAL COSTS WILL BE.  I DO NOT KNOW WHETHER THEY
WILL BE MANY OR NOT BUT I WILL ASSUME MY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE COSTS.
WHAT INTERESTS ME IS MY COUNTRY, MY PEOPLE."

   MENEM ADDED: "ACQUITTAL MEANS PARDON, AND FROM NOW ON ALL THOSE WHO
RECENTLY VIOLATED HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE BEEN PARDONED."

   MENEM SAID THAT IT IS "BASICALLY" IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF US "TO BE
ABLE TO BUILD AN ARGENTINA WHERE IT WILL BE WORTH LIVING."  REGARDING
THOSE PARDONED, MENEM SAID THAT HE WISHED THEM WELL AND THAT "THEY
SHOULD WORK IN PEACE HERE IN ARGENTINA OR ANYWHERE ELSE."

   HE INDICATED THAT HE IS WILLING "WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS TO MEET WITH
THEM" BECAUSE "IF THE PRESIDENT PARDONED THEM IN THE NAME OF WHAT HE
REPRESENTS AND IF IN SOME WAY HE REPRESENTS THE LAW AND A LARGE SECTOR
OF THE COMMUNITY, THEN I AM WILLING TO TALK WITH ANYONE WHO WANTS."
(SENTENCE AS RECEIVED)

   HE DENIED HAVING BEEN PRESSURED TO IMPLEMENT THE PARDON QUICKLY
"EITHER BY THE ARMED FORCES OR CIVILIANS."  HE POINTED OUT THAT "THERE
IS A MAN WHO DID NOT GET THE BENEFIT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PARDON; HE IS
ADMIRAL ARMANDO LAMBRUSCHINI WHOSE 15-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER WAS MURDERED
BY A [BOMB]1.  THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT MUST BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION
WHEM MEASURES OF THIS TYPE ARE IMPLEMENTED."

   MENEM CONCLUDED BY SAYING THAT "THIS MEASURE WHICH I TAKE UNDER MY
RESPONSIBILITY HAS THE SUPPORT OF THE JUSTICIALIST PARTY AND OTHER
PARTIES IN ADDITION TO A VERY IMPORTANT SECTOR OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
AND OTHER RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS."

THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT HAS
ESTABLISHED UNPRECEDENTED SECURITY MEASURES TO GUARANTEE THE SAFETY OF
THE GROUP OF EIGHT PRESIDENTS AND FOREIGN MINISTERS WHO WILL BEGIN
MEETING ON 9 OCTOBER IN TRUJILLO, THE COUNTRY'S THIRD-LARGEST CITY,
570 KM NORTH OF LIMA.

   ACCORDING TO MEDIA REPORTS, SOME 15,000 OFFICERS, INCLUDING POLICE,
ARMY, NAVY, AND AIR FORCE PERSONNEL, WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SECURITY
AT TRUJILLO AND ICA, 300 KM SOUTH OF LIMA.

   ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CARLOS MENEM, BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT JOSE SARNEY,
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO, URUGUAYAN PRESIDENT JULIO MARIA
SANGUINETTI, MEXICAN PRESIDENT CARLOS SALINAS, VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT
CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ, AND PERUVIAN PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA WILL MEET AT
THE "LAS DUNAS" HOTEL IN ICA 11-12 OCTOBER.  HOTEL WORKERS AND
EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN REPLACED AS A PREVENTIVE MEASURE.

   THE PRESIDENTS OF PERU, COLOMBIA, AND BOLIVIA WILL ALSO BE MEETING
IN ICA ON 10 OCTOBER TO ANALYZE THE PROBLEM OF DRUG TRAFFICKING, WHICH
AFFECTS THEIR COUNTRIES ESPECIALLY.

   THIS MEETING WAS ORIGINALLY PLANNED FOR PARACAS, A TOWN NEAR ICA,
BUT WAS MOVED TO ICA FOR SECURITY REASONS.

   THE NATIONAL POLICE HAVE BEEN CONFINED TO BARRACKS THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTRY SINCE LAST NIGHT BECAUSE, ACCORDING TO SOURCES, IT IS EXPECTED
THAT THE SHINING PATH AND THE TUPAC AMARU REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT
([MRTA]1) WILL TRY TO STAGE VIOLENT ACTS DURING THE MEETINGS.

   THE GUARDS AROUND THE EMBASSIES OF THE GROUP OF EIGHT COUNTRIES
HAVE BEEN REINFORCED WITH POLICE DOGS TRAINED TO DETECT EXPLOSIVES.

   POLICE HAVE ALSO ARRESTED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN LIMA TO CHECK ON
ANY POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS TO GUERRILLA MOVEMENTS OR TO SEE IF THEY HAVE
ACCOUNTS TO SETTLE WITH THE COURTS.

   THE ROUNDUPS ARE ALSO BEING CARRIED OUT TO FIND LOCAL TELEVISION
MAGNATE [HECTOR DELGADO PARKER]1, WHO WAS APPARENTLY KIDNAPPED BY THE
[MRTA]1 DURING AN INCIDENT IN WHICH DELGADO'S DRIVER WAS KILLED AND HIS
BODYGUARD WOUNDED.

   THE KIDNAPPING WAS CARRIED OUT BY A [GROUP OF PEOPLE]1, TWO OF WHOM
WERE DRESSED IN POLICE UNIFORMS, IN THE STREETS OF LIMA ON 4 OCTOBER.

   NEWSPAPER SOURCES TODAY SAID THAT AN ALLEGED LIEUTENANT TO [MRTA]1
CHIEF VICTOR POLAY, WHO HAS BEEN IN PRISON SINCE DECEMBER 1988, HAS
ALSO BEEN ARRESTED.

SEVERAL ARMED CLASHES WITHIN
NATIONAL TERRITORY ON 8 OCTOBER RESULTED IN AT LEAST 8 KILLED AND MORE
THAN 20 INJURED, INCLUDING GUERILLAS AND SOLDIERS, A GOVERNMENT REPORT
SAID TODAY.

   THE ARMED FORCES PRESS COMMITTEE (COPREFA) SAID THAT AT LEAST FOUR
SOLDIERS WERE KILLED AND EIGHT WERE WOUNDED WHEN THE REBELS AMBUSHED A
MILITARY TRUCK NEAR SAN VICENTE, 60 KM EAST OF SAN SALVADOR.

   IN ADDITION, TWO FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT REBELS
WERE KILLED IN HEAVY FIGHTING IN CIUDAD BARRIOS, SAN MIGUEL
DEPARTMENT, THE REPORT ADDED.

   TWO MORE REBELS WERE KILLED AND AN UNSPECIFIED NUMBER OF GUERRILLAS
AND SOLDIERS WERE WOUNDED IN ARMED ACTIONS IN THE COUNTRY'S EAST, THE
REPORT ALSO SAID.

   FINALLY, A [STORE]1 WAS PARTIALLY DESTROYED IN SAN SALVADOR ON THE
NIGHT OF 8 OCTOBER WHEN A POWERFUL [BOMB]1 ALLEGEDLY PLANTED BY [URBAN
GUERRILLAS]1 EXPLODED.  THERE WERE NO CASUALTIES.

ARGENTINE FOREIGN
MINISTER DOMINGO CAVALLO AND HIS PERUVIAN COUNTERPART GUILLERMO LARCO
COX SIGNED THREE INTEGRATION AGREEMENTS TODAY IN TRUJILLO, LIBERTAD
DEPARTMENT.  CAVALLO SAID THAT THE AGREEMENTS "CLEARLY SHOW THE
EFFORTS BEING MADE TOWARD COMMON GOAL" WHICH MEANS "MOVING AHEAD TO
BUILD A GREAT LATIN AMERICAN NATION."

   THE AGREEMENTS, WHICH WERE PREPARED BY THE FOREIGN MINISTRIES OF
THE TWO COUNTRIES, WERE SIGNED TODAY BY THE TWO FOREIGN MINISTERS IN
THE OLD HOUSE THAT BELONGED TO SIMON BOLIVIAR DURING THE TIME HE LIVED
IN TRUJILLO.  THE CEREMONY WAS HELD UNDER STRICT SECURITY MEASURES,
SEEKING TO PREVENT SUBVERSIVE ACTIONS.  SECURITY MEASURES WERE
REINFORCED IN THE LAST FEW HOURS FOLLOWING AN ATTACK EARLY THIS
MORNING 12 BLOCS FROM THE HOTEL WHERE THE DELEGATIONS ARE STAYING.

   THE FIRST AGREEMENT CREATES THE POLITICAL COORDINATION AND
INTEGRATION COMMITTEE.  CAVALLO SAID THAT THIS IS AIMED AT "TAKING
MORE ORDERLY STEPS IN THE EFFORTS WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE THROUGHOUT OUR
HISTORY BECAUSE THE ARGENTINE AND PERUVIAN DESIRE FOR INTEGRATION HAS
ROOTS AS OLD AS THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE."

   THE SECOND AGREEMENT REFERS TO THE COORDINATION OF EFFORTS FOR THE
PREVENTION AND REPRESSION OF DRUG TRAFFICKING.  CAVALLO SAID: "THIS
PROBLEM IS REACHING TERRIFYING DIMENSIONS BECAUSE ITS ECONOMIC POWER
IS MIXED WITH TERRORIST AND SUBVERSIVE GROUPS.  AS SUCH IT IS BECOMING
A GROWING THREAT TO THE LATIN AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES."

   IN A BRIEF SPEECH CAVALLO ALSO REFERRED TO THE THIRD AGREEMENT TO
PREVENT DOUBLE TAXATION AMONG AIR AND MARITIME ENTERPRISES.  HE SAID:
"INTEGRATION REQUIRES GOOD TRANSPORTATION METHODS WITH WHICH TO BRING
PEOPLE CLOSER TOGETHER" THUS MAKING "PROGRESS THROUGH CONCRETE
MECHANISMS IN THE INTEGRATION PROCESS IN WHICH OUR COUNTRIES ARE
INVOLVED."

   LARCO COX SAID THAT THROUGH THESE AGREEMENTS "ARGENTINE PRESIDENT
CARLOS MENEM HAS CONFIRMED, THROUGH HIS REPRESENTATIVE, HIS POLITICAL
WILL TO AGREE" TO FIND SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS AFFECTING THE REGION
BY SEEKING "NEW ROADS FOR UNDERSTANDING AND TO STRENGTHEN OUR ALREADY
RICH BILATERAL RELATIONS."

   A FEW HOURS BEFORE THIS CEREMONY, WHICH WAS ALSO ATTENDED BY UNDER
SECRETARY JOSE LUIS FERNANDEZ VALONI AND AMBASSADOR JULIAN LICASTRO,
TRUJILLO WAS SHAKEN AT 0400 BY FOUR POWERFUL [DYNAMITE]1 EXPLOTIONS (A
FIFTH BOMB DID NOT EXPLODE) WHICH DESTROYED ABOUT HALF DOZEN [[OFFICES]1
OF THE NATIONAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE]1.

   THIS ENTERPRISE, WHICH OPERATES WITH STATE AND PRIVATE CAPITAL, IS
LOCATED IN THE MONSERRATE DISTRICT WHERE THERE IS A HOUSING
DEVELOPMENT FOR POOR PEOPLE.  IT IS LOCATED 1 KM FROM THE PARADE
GROUND, DOWNTOWN TRUJILLO, ACROSS FROM WHICH IS LOCATED THE TURISTA
HOTEL.  THIS IS THE HOTEL WHERE THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF ARGENTINA,
PERU, COLOMBIA, URUGUAY, BRAZIL, MEXICO AND VENEZUELA ARE STAYING.

   THE EXPLOSIONS DID NOT CAUSE ANY CASUALTIES AND THE POLICE HOLD THE
[TUPAC AMARY REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT]1 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTACK.
(CONTINUED)

THE FAMILY OF [NORBERTO [[RODRIGUEZ]1
[RODRIGUEZ]1]1]1, THE BROTHER-IN-LAW OF VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES
PEREZ, SAID TODAY THAT THE [PEOPLE]1 WHO KIDNAPPED 72-YEAR-OLD [[RODRIGUEZ]1
[RODRIGUEZ]1]1 ARE ASKING FOR $10 MILLION, APPROXIMATELY 4.1 BILLION PESOS,
FOR HIS RELEASE.  INES [RODRIGUEZ]1 COLMENARES, DAUGHTER OF THE KIDNAPPED
MAN, TODAY READ A STATEMENT ON THE PRIVATELY OWNED RCN (RADIO CADENA
NACIONAL), THE MAIN RADIO STATION ALONG THE COLOMBIAN - VENEZUELAN
BORDER, IN WHICH THE FAMILY STATES THAT THE SUM REQUESTED IS
"UNIMAGINABLE."

   [RODRIGUEZ]1, FORMER VENEZUELAN CONSUL IN CUCUTA, WAS KIDNAPPED ON 14
JULY BY FOUR [PERSONS]1 WHO HAD REMAINED SILENT UNTIL A FEW HOURS AGO.

   IN THEIR STATEMENT, THE [RODRIGUEZ]1 FAMILY SAID THAT THE $10 MILLION
RANSOM IS NOT WITHIN THEIR REACH AND ADDED THAT "THE KIDNAPPERS MUST
KNOW WHAT OUR REAL ECONOMIC CAPACITY IS."

   "WE ARE WILLING TO NEGOTIATE OUR FATHER'S RELEASE, BUT WITHIN OUR
MEANS," THE DOCUMENT ADDS.

   THE KIDNAPPERS, BELIEVED TO BE MEMBERS OF THE PRO-CASTRO ARMY OF
NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN), REPORTEDLY ADVISED THE [RODRIGUEZ]1 FAMILY
YESTERDAY OF THEIR DECISION TO NEGOTIATE HIS RELEASE.

   NORBERTO [RODRIGUEZ]1 IS THE BROTHER OF BLANCA DE PEREZ, WIFE OF
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ.

IT IS A PLEASURE FOR ME TO MEET
WITH PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO FOR THE SECOND TIME, IN MY ROLE AS
PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA, TO TO CONTINUE REVIEWING -- 6 MONTHS LATER --
ISSUES WHICH ARE OF MUTUAL INTEREST TO OUR TWO NATIONS.  I ALSO WISH
TO PROVE WITH THIS ACTION THAT WE ARE WILLING TO CARRY OUT OUR PLANS
FOR COOPERATION AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING.  ON THIS OCCASION WE ARE
PROVING THAT WE WANT TO PERMANENTLY FOLLOW UP THE GOALS ESTABLISHED
DURING OUR FIRST MEETING.

   HOWEVER, PRESIDENT BARCO, ON THIS OCCASION I WISH TO STATE -- LIKE
I PERSONALLY TOLD YOU ON THE TELEPHONE UPON LEARNING THE UNFORTUNATE
AND TRAGIC NEWS ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION OF [LUIS CARLOS GALAN]1, AN
ADMIRED FRIEND AND A GREAT COLOMBIAN -- THAT I WANTED TO HOLD THIS
MEETING BECAUSE THE VENEZUELAN FEELINGS WHICH I REPRESENT AND
PERSONIFY COMPELLED ME TO PERSONALLY EXPRESS TO YOU, AS PRESIDENT OF
COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA'S AND THE VENEZUELAN PEOPLE'S SOLIDARITY WITH THE
EXTRAORDINARY AND ADMIRABLE STRUGGLE THAT COLOMBIA IS CURRENTLY WAGING
AGAINST AN ENEMY OF MANKIND -- DRUG TRAFFICKING.

   I WANT TO STATE HERE THAT THIS WAS ENOUGH REASON FOR THE VENEZUELA
GOVERNMENT TO REQUEST, THROUGH ITS PRESIDENT, A PERSONAL INTERVIEW
WITH PRESIDENT BARCO SO THAT IT MAY BE KNOWN THAT VENEZUELA'S
SOLIDARITY GOES BEYOND WORDS.  (CONTINUED)

BRITAIN AND
ARGENTINA TODAY AGREED TO RESUME THEIR CONSULAR RELATIONS AND DIRECT
AIR AND SEA LINKS SEVERED DURING THEIR WAR OVER SOVEREIGNTY OF THE
MALVINAS (FALKLANDS) ISLANDS SEVEN YEARS AGO.

   AFTER THREE DAYS OF SUBSTANTIVE TALKS IN MADRID, THE TWO COUNTRIES
AGREED "TO LIFT ALL REMAINING RESTRICTIONS" ON TRADE AND FINANCIAL
EXCHANGES, SAID A JOINT COMMUNIQUE ISSUED HERE TODAY.

   THEY ALSO EXPRESSED A WISH TO NORMALIZE THEIR TIES "WITH A VIEW TO
RESUMING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS," IT SAID.

   THE DISCUSSIONS WERE HELD BETWEEN BRITISH NEGOTIATOR CRISPIN
TICKELL, BRITAIN'S AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS, AND VETERAN
ARGENTINE DIPLOMAT LUCIO GARCIA DE SOLAR.

   THE TALKS, ARRANGED AFTER THE TWO SPECIAL ENVOYS MET IN NEW YORK IN
AUGUST, WERE EXTENDED A DAY BEYOND ITS TWO-DAY SCHEDULE.

   THEY AGREED TO HOLD FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS TO STRIVE FOR THE
RESUMPTION OF THE TWO COUNTRIES' DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BROKEN DURING
THE 1982 MALVINAS WAR. THE NEXT SUBSTANTIVE MEETING WILL BE HELD ON
FEBRUARY 14-15, 1990.

   DURING THE MADRID TALKS, THE TWO COUNTRIES PUT ASIDE THE
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE OF SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE SOUTH ATLANTIC ISLANDS,
WHICH BLOCKED THEIR FIRST RECONCILIATION ATTEMPT IN BERN, SWITZERLAND,
IN 1984.

   THE COMMUNIQUE SAID THAT THE TALKS ALLOWED BOTH SIDES TO HOLD THEIR
RESPECTIVE POSITIONS ON THE ISSUE OF SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE ISLANDS AND
THAT NOTHING OF THEIR AGREEMENT COULD BE INTERPRETED AS A CHANGE IN
THEIR POSITIONS.

   AS REGARDS FISHERIES, THE COMMUNIQUE SAID, BOTH DELEGATIONS HAD
DIFFERENT POSITIONS BUT AGREED "TO SET UP A WORKING GROUP WITH A VIEW
TO MAKING PROPOSALS" TO BE SUBMITTED TO FURTHER DISCUSSIONS.

   ARGENTINA HOPES FOR THE LIFTING OF THE 150-MILE (240-KILOMETER)
EXCLUSIVE ZONE AROUND THE MALVINAS ISLANDS IMPOSED BY BRITAIN AFTER
THE 10-WEEK WAR, WHICH KILLED MORE THAN 1,000 PEOPLE.

   A BRITISH TRADE MISSION WILL VISIT ARGENTINA FROM NOVEMBER 27 TO
DECEMBER 1, THIS YEAR, AND A NEW CULTURAL AGREEMENT COULD BE EXPECTED
AS NORMALIZATION ADVANCED FURTHER, ACCORDING TO THE DOCUMENT.

   LINKS AND CONTACTS BETWEEN THE FALKLANDS AND THE CONTINENTAL
MAINLAND WOULD BE DEVELOPED AS BENEFICIAL.

   BRITAIN ALSO AGREED TO HELP ARGENTINA ESTABLISH ITS COOPERATIVE
LINKS WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, WHICH HAS REJECTED COMMERCIAL TIES
WITH THE LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRY BECAUSE OF ITS UNNORMALIZED RELATIONS
WITH BRITAIN. BRITAIN IS ONE OF THE 12 MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITY.

   DESCRIBING THE AGREEMENT AS REMARKABLE, TICKELL, THE BRITISH CHIEF
NEGOTIATOR, SAID: "WE HAVE TAKEN A VERY LARGE STEP TOWARDS DIPLOMATIC
RELATIONS ... WE ARE NOT THERE YET."

   ARGENTINE NEGOTIATOR DEL SOLAR EXPRESSED OPTIMISM FOR THE
RESUMPTION OF FULL DIPLOMATIC TIES AND SAID: "MY IMPRESSION IS THAT
THIS WILL NOT BE TOO LONG."

   THE ANGLO-ARGENTINE RAPPROCHEMENT WAS INITIATED BY ARGENTINA'S
PRESIDENT CARLOS MENEM, WHO TOOK OFFICE IN JULY. MENEM SAID ON THE
SECOND DAY AFTER HIS INAUGURATION THAT TALKS COULD BE RESUMED ON
RESTORATION OF THE TWO COUNTRIES' DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITHOUT
DISCUSSING SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE MALVINAS ISLANDS.

   HE VOICED THE HOPE THAT THE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS COULD RESUME BY
CHRISTMAS, A TIMETABLE THAT BRITAIN SAID IS EXTREMELY AMBITIOUS.

   HOWEVER, OBSERVERS HERE SAID THE MADRID AGREEMENT HAS PAVED THE WAY
FOR BRITAIN AND ARGENTINA TO TALK TO EACH OTHER WITHOUT TOUCHING THE
THORNY ISSUE OF SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE ISLANDS.

   BY REACHING THE AGREEMENT, BRITAIN AND ARGENTINA HAVE TAKEN A
STRIDE TOWARD RECONCILIATION, THEY SAID.

"THE EXTRADITABLES" CLANDESTINE
GROUP TODAY CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR LAST NIGHT'S DYNAMITE ATTACK
AGAINST A POLICE AIR BASE AT GUAIMARAL, 25 KM TO THE NORTH OF BOGOTA,
KILLING A NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER.

   THROUGH ANONYMOUS PHONE CALLS TO VARIOUS MEDIA IN THE NORTHEAST OF
MEDELLIN, ANTIOQUIA PROVINCE, THE EXTRADITABLES CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY
FOR PLACING A BOMB INSIDE ONE OF THE SMALL AIRPORT'S BATHROOMS.

   THE EXTRADITABLES ARE COMPRISED OF THE MAIN COLOMBIAN DRUG
TRAFFICKING CAPOS, WHO, THROUGH VIOLENT ACTS, ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE
GOVERNMENT GIVE UP ON ITS DECISION TO EXTRADITE THEM TO THE UNITED
STATES.

   THE AUTHORITIES ARE SAYING NOTHING ABOUT THE ATTACK AND DENIED
NEWSMEN ACCESS TO THE TERMINAL.  THE AIRPORT HOUSES AIRCRAFT USED BY
ANTINARCOTICS POLICE.

THERE WAS A STRONG EXPLOSION EARLY THIS MORNING.  A
[BOMB]1 WENT OFF AT THE [BUILDING]1 OF THE "MSGR OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO"
COMMITTEE OF MOTHERS, RELATIVES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS, MISSING, AND
MURDERED PEOPLE IN EL SALVADOR, LOCATED ON NORTH SECOND AVENUE BETWEEN
15TH AND EAST 17TH STREETS.  THE EXPLOSION DID EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO
THIS OFFICE, AND THREE PERSONS WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED, INCLUDING U.S.
CITIZEN [BRENDA HOOVARIT]1, 41.  ALSO INJURED WERE [LUCIO GUTIERREZ]1 AND
4-MONTH-OLD [ELMER ANTONIO ALVARENGA]1, SON OF ARGENTINA ALVARENGA.  THEY
WERE TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL BY THE RED CROSS.

   THE [EXPLOSIVE DEVICE]1, WHICH WENT OFF AT 0230 (0830 GMT), DAMAGED
THE COMMITTEE'S [BUILDING]1.  RED CROSS WORKERS RUSHSED TO THE SCENE TO
TAKE THE INJURED TO THE HOSPITAL.  THE BLAST WAS HEARD ALL OVER SAN
SALVADOR.

   I REPEAT: U.S. CITIZEN BRANDA HOOVARIT, [LUCIO GUTIERREZ]1, AND
ELMER ALVARENGA WERE INJURED.  THEY WERE TAKEN TO DIFFERENT HOSPITALS
BY THE RED CROSS BECAUSE THEY SUSTAINED SERIOUS INJURIES DUE TO THE
INTENSITY OF THE EXPLOSION, WHICH DESTROYED THE COMMITTEE'S OFFICES.

MR PRESIDENT, REGARDING POINT NO. 6 IN WHICH YOU
SPOKE ABOUT SPECIFIC RESULTS CONCERNING THE DEMOBILIZATION OF THE
CONTRAS, TO WHAT SPECIFIC AMOUNTS IS THE NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT
REFERRING TO?  ARE YOU SAYING THAT 20 PERCENT, 10 PERCENT OR 50
PERCENT OF THE CONTRAS HAVE TO BE DEMOBILIZED IN ORDER FOR THE
CEASE-FIRE TO BE IMPLEMENTED AGAIN?

   (ORTEGA) THE IMPORTANT POINT IS TO BEGIN IMPLEMENTING THE PLAN.
THEN, THE NUMBER OF CONTRAS THAT ARE DEMOBILIZED WOULD BE ESTABLISHED
ACCORDING TO THE DECISIONS MADE AT THE UNITED NATIONS.  THAT IS, HOW
MANY CONTRAS CAN BE DEMOBILIZED RIGHT AWAY, HOW MANY OF THEM WILL BE
RETURNING TO NICARAGUA, HOW MANY WILL GO TO THIRD COUNTRIES.
THEREFORE, TO THE EXTENT THE PLAN IS BEING IMPLEMENTED, WE WILL BE
WILLING TO REINSTATE THE CEASE-FIRE.

   (REPORTER) MR PRESIDENT, UP UNTIL LAST WEEK, THE U.S. CONGRESS
DISCUSSED GIVING MORE AID TO THE CONTRAS.  NO ONE EVEN WANTED TO TALK
ABOUT THE CONTRAS, IT WAS A STALE ISSUE.  HOWEVER, IT HAS BECOME A
BURNING ISSUE OVERNIGHT AND EVERYBODY IS NOW TALKING ABOUT AID FOR THE
CONTRAS AND EVEN THE POSSIBILITY OF GIVING MILITARY AID TO THEM.  LAST
NIGHT, THE U.S. SENATE ISSUED A RESOLUTION STRONGLY CONDENMING THE
NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT.  MY QUESTIONS ARE: FIRST, WHY HAS THERE BEEN
SUCH A SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED CHANGE.  SECOND, WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE TO
THE U.S. CONGRESS.

   (ORTEGA) U.S. CONGRESSMEN ARE ONLY CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR
REELECTION.  WITH THE DUE RESPECT THAT SOME OF THEM DESERVE, U.S.
CONGRESSMEN ARE ONLY WORRIED ABOUT THEIR REELECTION.  I HAVE TALKED TO
MANY OF THEM HERE AND THEY ARE CYNICAL.  THEY TELL ME: I DISAGREE WITH
THAT BUT I HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THOSE WHO ELECTED ME.  IF THOSE WHO
ELECTED ME HAVE A DIFFERENT OPINION, THEN I HAVE TO EXPRESS SUPPORT
FOR THEIR VIEWPOINTS AND FORGET ABOUT MY OWN OPINION.  LET US NOT
MISLEAD OURSELVES.  YOU KNOW VERY WELL HOW U.S. CONGRESSMEN ACT.
THEREFORE, IT WAS EASIER FOR THEM TO SIMPLY APPROVE FUNDS FOR THE
CONTRAS AS THEY HAD DONE -- BECAUSE THE CONGRESS HAD APPROVED THE
SO-CALLED HUMANITARIAN AID FOR THE CONTRAS (WORDS INDISTINCT) AND LET
THE WAR CONTINUE, AND LEAVE THE BURDEN ON THE CENTRAL AMERICAN
GOVERNMENTS, ESPECIALLY ON THE NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE WHO
ARE SUFFERING THE EFFECTS OF THIS WAR.  THEREFORE, WE HAVE BEEN
REPORTING THE KILLINGS, THE ASSASSINATIONS, THE CRIMES, THE CONTRAS
ATTACKS, AND THE YANKEE CONGRESS HAS REMAINED SILENT.

   THEREFORE, WE SEE AN EASY-GOING ATTITUDE IN THE U.S. CONGRESS.
OBVIOUSLY, WHEN WE ANNOUNCE WE ARE NOT GOING TO EXTEND THE CEASE-FIRE
THE U.S. CONGRESS REACTS IMMEDIATELY.  THEY REACT BECAUSE THEY ARE
FULLY AWARE THAT THEY ARE MEDDLING IN NICARAGUAN POLITICS.  THEY WILL
HAVE TO RESUME DISCUSSIONS ON THE NICARAGUAN ISSUE, AND THEY DO NOT
WANT TO DISCUSS THE NICARAGUAN ISSUE AGAIN.  IT WAS EASY TO SET ASIDE
THE NICARAGUAN ISSUE AND TO SIMPLY APPROVE FUNDS FOR THE CONTRAS SO
THE CONTRAS COULD CONTINUE KILLING NICARAGUANS WHILE EVERYTHING ELSE
REMAINS CALM -- LET THE PEACE PLAN CONTINUE AS FAR AS IT CAN AND AS
FAR AS PRESIDENT BUSH ALLOWS IT TO DEVELOP.  THE U.S. CONGRESSMEN CAN
THEN FORGET ABOUT THE NICARAGUAN ISSUE AND WORK ON OTHER DOMESTIC OR
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES IN WHICH THEY ARE MORE INTERESTED.

   HOWEVER, WHEN NICARAGUA SAYS: WE WILL NOT EXTEND THE CEASE-FIRE,
THEN THEY RAISE AN OUTCRY.  WHY DO THEY RAISE AN OUTCRY?  BECAUSE THEY
KNOW THEY WILL HAVE TO RESUME DISCUSSIONS ON THE NICARAGUAN ISSUE.
MOREOVER, THERE MIGHT BE A FEVERISH CONGRESSMAN WHO WILL PROPOSE
GIVING MILITARY AID TO THE CONTRAS.  WELL, LET THEM DISCUSS MILITARY
AID.  DO THEY WANT TO DISCUSS MILITARY AID, WELL THAT IS THEIR
PROBLEM.  WE SIMPLY BELIEVE THAT THE WAY THE YANKEE CONGRESS ACTIONS
WILL EASE OR HINDER THE ELECTORAL PROCESS.  THE DEVELOPMENT OF
ELECTIONS ON 25 FEBRUARY WILL DEPEND NOW ON THE YANKEE CONGRESS AND ON
THE YANKEE PRESIDENT.  IT WILL DEPEND ON THEM.  WE HAVE THE DESIRE TO
DO IT.  HOWEVER, WHETHER OR NOT THE ELECTIONS ARE HELD ON 25 FEBRUARY
WILL DEPEND ON THEM.  (CONTINUED)

THE RED CROSS HAS
ANNOUNCED THAT ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND ANOTHER INJURED BY THE
EXPLOSION OF A CAR CIRCULATING THIS AFTERNOON NEAR THE [SALVADORAN
ARMY'S 1ST INFANTRY BRIGADE]1 IN SAN SALVADOR.

   ACCORDING TO THE RED CROSS, THE DEAD MAN, WHO WAS NOT IDENTIFIED,
WAS DRIVING THE VEHICLE WHICH, TO ALL APPEARANCES, WAS TO BE PLACED
NEAR THE MILITARY HEADQUARTERS, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT IN EL
SALVADOR.

   THE EXPLOSION INJURED ONE CIVILIAN, A FEMALE STREET PEDDLER WHO WAS
NEARBY AND HAD TO BE TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL.

   FOLLOWING THE EXPLOSION, MILITARY TROOPS INITIATED A LARGE-SCALE
SECURITY OPERATION.

   IT HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED THAT A [BUS]3 WAS BURNED TODAY BY
[[[UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUALS]1]3]4 PROTESTING THE [DYMANITE]4 ATTACK PERPETRATED
YESTERDAY BY [[[UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUALS]1]3]4 AGAINST THE [HEADQUARTERS OF THE
SALVADORAN WORKERS NATIONAL UNION FEDERATION]4 ([FENASTRAS]4).

   THE ATTACK AGAINST [FENASTRAS]4 KILLED 10, INCLUDING LEADER [FEBE
ELIZABETH VELASQUEZ]4, AND MORE THAN 30 PEOPLE INJURED.

FOR THE THIRD DAY IN A ROW, THE BLOODBATH CONTINUES
TO ROCK THIS CAPITAL CITY AND THE END TO THIS SITUATION, WHICH IS
ALARMING THE PEOPLE, DOES NOT SEEM TO BE NEAR.  ACCORDING TO REPORTS,
THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT ([[FMLN]1]3) [URBAN COMMANDS]1
FAILED ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON WHEN THEY ATTACKED THE [HEADQUARTERS
OF THE 1ST INFANTRY BRIGADE]1 LOCATED IN LAICO NEIGHBORHOOD.  THE [[FMLN]1]3
[URBAN COMMANDS]1 FIRED TWO [RPG-2 ROCKET]1 LAUNCHERS WHICH HIT A PRIVATE
VEHICLE WITH LICENSE PLATE 72246 THAT WAS PASSING THE MILITARY
GARRISON.  AS A RESULT OF THE REBEL ATTACK, AN AGRONOMIST, IDENTIFIED
AS 57- YEAR- OLD [JOSE HERMOGENES MARTINEZ]1, WAS KILLED.  WE DID NOT
TAKE PICTURES OF HIS BODY BECAUSE IT WAS TOTALLY MUTILATED AS A RESULT
OF THE STRONG EXPLOSION.  ALSO INJURED WAS A STREET VENDOR IDENTIFIED
AS [MARIA DEL CARMEN PEREZ]1.

   (BEGIN RECORDING) (UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER) THERE WERE FOUR MEN IN A
PICKUP, TWO SEATED IN FRONT AND TWO IN THE BACK.  THE TWO WHO WERE IN
THE BACK TOOK OUT THE [BAZOOKAS]1 AND FIRED ON THE GARRISON'S GATE.  A
MAN DRIVING A SUZUKI DROVE AT THE SAME TIME THE ROCKETS WERE LAUNCHED
AND HE WAS HIT.

   (REPORTER) HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE IN THE VEHICLE?

   (UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER) FOUR.  THE CAR WHERE THE INJURED MAN WAS?
ONLY ONE PERSON, THE MAN WHO WAS INJURED.

   (REPORTER) HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE IN THE VEHICLE FROM WHERE THE
ROCKETS WHERE FIRED?

   (UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER) FOUR PERSONS.

   (REPORTER) AT WHAT TIME DID THAT HAPPEN?

   (UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER) ABOUT 30 MINUTES AGO, AT APPROXIMATELY 1530.

   (REPORTER) HOW MANY ROCKETS WERE FIRED?

   (UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER) TWO.

   (SECOND UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER) THE MAN WAS IN THE CAR.  AFTER THE
DEVICES EXPLODED -- WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT KIND WERE FIRED -- THERE WAS
SMOKE AND GUNPOWDER ALL OVER THE PLACE.  HIS CLOTHES AND BODY WERE
TOTALLY DESTROYED.  WHEN WE TOOK HIM TO THE ROSALES HOSPITAL WE TALKED
TO A DOCTOR, AND HE SAID THAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO ALL THEY COULD TO
SAVE HIS LIFE.  (END RECORDING)

   MEANWHILE, COLONEL FRANCISCO ELENA FUENTES, COMMANDER OF THE
MILITARY GARRISON, REGRETTED THE ATTACK AND SAID THAT THESE ATTACKS
ARE WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE VIOLENCE UNLEASHED IN THE PAST FEW
DAYS BY GROUPS THAT ARE OUT OF CONTROL.

   (BEGIN RECORDING) (FUENTES) YOU HAVE ALREADY SEEN THE VEHICLE.  WE
BELIEVE THE ROCKETS WERE AIMED AT THE GATE, AT THE GUARDS STANDING AT
THE ENTRANCE OF THE HEADQUARTERS.  PERHAPS THEY WERE AIMED AT ME
BECAUSE I HAD BEEN IN THE AREA 5 MINUTES EARLIER.

   THOSE PEOPLE ARE COMPLETELY OUT OF THEIR MINDS.  THEY DO NOT CARE
IF THE KILL INNOCENT CIVILIANS.  THESE COULD BE GROUPS THAT THE [[FMLN]1]3
CAN NO LONGER CONTROL OR PERHAPS THEY ARE ONLY KILLERS WHO ONLY KNOW
HOW TO MURDER PEOPLE.  (END RECORDING)

   THE INJURED PERSONS WERE TAKEN TO ROSALES HOSPITAL IN SAN SALVADOR
WHERE THEY WERE GIVEN EMERGENCY TREATMENT.  THE STREET VENDOR SAYS
THAT IT WAS A MIRACLE THAT SHE WAS NOT KILLED.

   (BEGIN RECORDING) (PEREZ) I DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.  I WAS JUST
SITTING THERE AND I HEARD THE NOISE (WORDS INDISTINCT).  (END
RECORDING)

   MEANWHILE, THE [[FMLN]1]3 [URBAN [GUERRILLAS]3]3 SET FIRE TO A [PUBLIC [BUS]3H]3 IN
SANTA MARTA, SAN JACINTON NEIGHBORHOOD.  THE [REBELS]3 DISTRIBUTED
LEAFLETS STATING THAT THEY BURNED THE [BUS]3 IN REPRISAL FOR THE KILLING
OF LEFTIST LEADER FEDE ELIZABETH VELASQUEZ.

CONCERNING THE FMLN (FARABUNDO MARTI
NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT) COMMUNIQUE, THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT
HEREBY ANNOUNCES THE FOLLOWING:

   1.  ON THE DAY OF THE TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST [FENASTRAS]1
(SALVADORAN WORKERS NATIONAL UNION FEDERATION), THE GOVERNMENT
STRONGLY CONDEMNED THE ATTACK AND ANNOUNCED ITS PLANS TO CARRY OUT A
THOROUGH INVESTIGATION.  HOWEVER, IT IS REGRETTABLE THAT [FENASTRAS]1
LEADERS HAVE BEEN HINDERING THE INVESTIGATIONS THAT COULD CLEAR UP THE
ATTACK.

   NONETHELESS, THE GOVERNMENT REITERATES ITS DETERMINATION TO CARRY
OUT A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION, AND WILL EVEN BRING TO THE COUNTRY SOME
EXPERTS IN THIS FIELD SO THAT WITH THE HELP OF MODERN SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY THEY WILL HELP THE INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE CLARIFY THIS
BLOODY AND CRIMINAL ATTACK AND ESTABLISH WHO IS RESPONSIBLE.

   LIKEWISE, THE GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED TO APPOINT A COMMISSION THAT
WILL GUARANTEE THE INVESTIGATIONS, AND IT WILL INVITE THE FOLLOWING:
ONE REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE UNITED NATIONS; ONE REPRESENTATIVE FROM
THE OAS; ONE REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE SALVADORAN BISHOPS' CONFERENCE;
ONE REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE POLITICAL PARTIES; TWO LABOR UNION
REPRESENTATIVES, ONE OF THEM BEING FROM [FENASTRAS]1; DR IGNACIO
ELLACURIA (JESUIT PRIEST AND RECTOR OF THE JOSE SIMEON CANAS CENTRAL
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY); THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE REPUBLIC; AND THE
MINISTER OF JUSTICE.

   2.  THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC HAS SUPPLIED EVIDENCE FROM THE
BEGINNING THAT IT IS SINCERELY SEEKING PEACE.  THE DIALOGUE COMMISSION
ATTENDED A FIRST MEETING WITH THE FMLN IN MEXICO, AND ACCEPTED A
COMMITMENT, AS FOLLOWS, AND I QUOTE: BOTH PARTIES COMMIT THEMSELVES
NOT TO WITHDRAW UNILATERALLY FROM THE DIALOGUE.

   THE FMLN'S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE DIALOGUE IS NOT ONLY A VIOLATION OF
THE MEXICO AGREEMENT, BUT ALSO (WORD INDISTINCT) THE SALVADORAN
PEOPLE'S HOPES FOR PEACE.  FAR FROM SUSPENDING THE DIALOGUE, THE FMLN
SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THE SEARCH FOR PEACE IS NOW MORE NECESSARY THAN
EVER IN ORDER TO HALT THE BLOODSHED.

   3.  EVIDENTLY, IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS ONE, THE ENEMIES OF PEACE
ARE TRYING TO MAKE THE DIALOGUE FAIL.  THE [RECENT TERRORIST]1 ACTIONS
ARE AN INSULT TO THE CIVILIZED MECHANISMS THAT HAVE COME UP AT THE
NEGOTIATIONS TABLE.

   THE GOVERNMENT HEREBY NOTIFIES THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE AND THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY THAT THE DIALOGUE COMMISSION WILL CONTINUE TO
DO ITS WORK, AND IT WILL NOT WITHDRAW FROM THE TALKS IN SPITE OF THE
SORROWFUL EVENTS THAT HAVE BROUGHT MORE MOURNING TO THE SALVADORAN
PEOPLE IN RECENT DAYS.

   4.  IN THESE DIFFICULT MOMENTS THAT OUR COUNTRY IS EXPERIENCING,
THE GOVERNMENT REITERATES ITS CALL FOR THE PEOPLE TO REMAIN CALM, SO
THAT IN A PRUDENT AND UNDERSTANDING MANNER WE WILL JOIN EFFORTS TO
HELP REACH PEACE AND NOT PROMOTE VIOLENCE, WHICH ONLY SERVES TO
 HINDER THE DIALOGUE.

   (ISSUED IN) SAN SALVADOR, 3 NOVEMBER 1989

IT HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THIS
CAPITAL THAT A DELEGATION OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION
FRONT (FMLN) WILL MEET THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON WITH UN AND OAS
REPRESENTATIVES TO ANALYZE THE COUNTRY'S SITUATION AND THE FUTURE OF
THE TALKS BETWEEN THE REBELS AND ALFREDO CRISTIANI'S ADMINISTRATION.

   COMMANDER LEONEL GONZALEZ, ONE OF THE FIVE FMLN GENERAL COMMAND
MEMBERS, ISSUED A STATEMENT THROUGH RADIO VENCEREMOS -- THE OFFICIAL
VOICE OF THE GUERRILLA ORGANIZATIONS -- AND SAID THAT THE MEETINGS
WILL START TOMORROW 6 NOVEMBER.

   OTHER FMLN DELEGATES WILL MEET TOMORROW WITH COSTA RICAN PRESIDENT
OSCAR ARIAS, WHO HAS STATED HIS CONCERN REGARDING THE TALKS BETWEEN
THE REBELS AND CRISTIANI'S GOVERNMENT AFTER [RIGHT-WING SQUADS]1
ASSASSINATED 10 LABOR LEADERS.

   COMMANDER GONZALEZ SAID "THAT THE CRISTIANI ADMINISTRATION'S
DOUBLE-FACED CONDUCT IS PRECLUDING THE POSSIBILITIES FOR ACHIEVING A
PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO THE SALVADORAN CONFLICT."

   "THE CRISTIANI ADMINISTRATION AND THE ARMY OPPOSE REAL
NEGOTIATIONS, AND THEIR CONCEPT OF A DIALOGUE IS TO TALK AND TALK --
BUT ONLY TO GAIN TIME AND PROJECT A GOOD IMAGE AT THE NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL LEVEL," THE REBEL LEADER SAID.

   REFERRING TO THIS, GONZALEZ ASSERTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT'S DECISION
TO SEND ITS DELEGATION TO THE 20-21 NOVEMBER MEETING IN CARACAS,
WHETHER THE GUERRILLA REPRESENTATIVES ATTEND IT OR NOT, IS AIMED AT
"CREATING A SMOKE SCREEN TO COVER THE MASSACRES PERPETRATED THIS WEEK
AGAINST THE PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT."

   COMMANDER GONZALEZ ALSO REFERRED TO CRISTIANI'S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT A
COMMISSION WILL BE CREATED WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF UN AND OAS
DELEGATES TO INVESTIGATE THE 10 LABOR LEADERS' MASSACRE.

   "IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CARRY OUT AN INVESTIGATION WITH A CORRUPT
JUDICIAL SYSTEM LIKE THE ONE IN EL SALVADOR ," GONZALEZ SAID.  HE
RECALLED THAT THE AUTHORITIES HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO SOLVE THE MURDER
OF SAN SALVADOR ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO IN 10 YEARS.  THE
GUERRILLA BLAMES MAJOR ROBERTO D'AUBUISSON, ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT
PARTY'S IDEOLOGISTS, FOR ROMERO'S MURDER.

   THE FMLN COMMANDER ALSO WARNED THAT THE ARMY "HAS LAUNCHED A
CAMPAIGN TO CONFUSE NATIONAL AND WORLD OPINION BY ACCUSING THE
GUERRILLAS OF PERPETRATING TERRORIST ACTIONS."

   THE ARMED FORCES ACTUALLY WANT "TO COVER UP THEIR REPRESSIVE POLICY
BECAUSE THEY HAVE SHIFTED FROM SELECTIVE ARRESTS TO MASS ARRESTS --
AND FROM GENOCIDE TO INDISCRIMINATE ATTACKS," HE ADDED.

   THE GUERRILLA COMMANDER ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT THE GUERRILLA FORCES
WILL MAINTAIN A HIGH LEVEL OF MILITARY ACTIONS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
AS LONG AS THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF CONTINUING A REAL DIALOGUE -
NEGOTIATION PROCESS WHICH LEADS THE COUNTRY TO AN EVERLASTING PEACE.

POLICE SOURCES REPORTED TODAY
THAT JORGE CASTILLO GARCIA, NICARAGUAN CONSUL IN COSTA RICA, WHO CAME
HERE TO PROMOTE THE DEMOBILIZATION OF THE CONTRAS, WAS SERIOUSLY
INJURED. HE WAS SHOT ON THE EVENING OF 5 NOVEMBER AT A TEGUCIGALPA
RESTAURANT.

   ARNALDO AMADOR, SECURITY GUARD AT THE DOMOS RESTAURANT TOLD POLICE
THAT CASTILLO, VISIBLY DRUNK, TRIED TO TAKE A MOTORCYCLE FROM IN FRONT
OF THE RESTAURANT. AMADOR ORDERED CASTILLO TO SURRENDER, BELIEVING HE
WAS A THIEF.

   ACCORDING TO AMADOR THE NICARAGUAN CONSUL ATTACKED HIM, HITTING HIM
ON THE HEAD. AMADOR SAYS HE THEN SHOT CASTILLO WITH HIS SUBMACHINEGUN,
WOUNDING HIM IN THE LEFT SIDE OF THE CHEST, VERY NEAR THE HEART.

   CASTILLO GARCIA WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE IS NOW
"RECOVERING", WHILE AMADOR HAS BEEN ARRESTED BY THE POLICE.

   A FEW MINUTES AFTER THE INCIDENT, WHICH OCCURRED AT 2200 ON 5
NOVEMBER, DONAL OLIVA, SECRETARY OF THE NICARAGUAN EMBASSY HERE, CAME
TO THE RESTAURANT TO GET DETAILS OF THE INCIDENT.

   OLIVA SAID THAT CASTILLO GARCIA HAD LEFT THE EMBASSY ABOUT 2 HOURS
BEFORE.  HE SAID THAT CASTILLO HAD ARRIVED IN HONDURAS LAST WEEK TO
PROMOTE THE DEMOBILIZATION OF THE CONTRAS, ESTABLISHED ALONG THE
NICARAGUAN BORDER.

THE COUNTRY IS EXPERIENCING ONE OF THE WORST
ANTICOMMUNIST AND TERRORIST CAMPAIGNS IN A LONG TIME. THIS CAMPAIGN IS
SIMILAR TO THE ONE UNLEASHED BETWEEN 1964 AND 1970.  THE SITUATION IS
FURTHER AGGRAVATED BECAUSE IT IS TAKING PLACE UNDER A DICTATORSHIP
THAT WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO ACHIEVE ITS OBJECTIVES.

   DURING HIS SPEECH IN COIHAIQUE, PINOCHET THREATENED TO END THE
STATE OF LAW.  THIS HAS BEEN FOLLOWED BY OTHER THREATS BY (DEPUTY
OPPONENTS, AND BY EQUALLY THREATENING STATEMENTS AND SYSTEMATIC
AGGRESSION AGAINST ARMY MEMBERS WHO CRITICIZE THE DICTATORIAL REGIME.

   MEANWHILE EL MERCURIO AND THE PROGOVERNMENT NEWS MEDIA HAVE
ORCHESTRATED A CAMPAIGN THAT IS FINANCED BY BUCHI'S ELECTORAL
MANAGERS. THIS CAMPAIGN USES EDITORIALS, ATTRIBUTED ARTICLES, AND PAID
ADS THAT ARE AIMED AT MISINFORMING AND MANIPULATING PUBLIC OPINION.

   THE OBJECTIVE IS TO CREATE A MOOD OF AGGRESSION TOWARD THE LEFT AND
TOWARD THE COMMUNIST PARTY, A MOOD THAT WOULD JUSTIFY ANY KIND OF
PROVOCATION.

   THE WORST EXAMPLE WAS A RECENT PAID AD PUBLISHED BY BUCHI'S
ELECTORAL MANAGERS ON AN ALLEGED THREAT OF COMMUNIST STRIKE SQUADS
THAT WERE GOING TO GUN DOWN THE PROGOVERNMENT CANDIDATE. IT IS WELL
KNOWN THAT THIS STATEMENT, REPORTEDLY MADE BY A YOUNG CHRISTIAN
DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADER TO LA SEGUNDA ON 31 OCTOBER, WAS LATER FLATLY
DENIED BY THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC LEADER HIMSELF.  DESPITE THIS
DENIAL, BUCHI'S CAMPAIGN MANAGERS ARE STILL HARPING ON THE SUBJECT,
TRYING TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE OF VIOLENCE AND UNEASE.

   THE BRUTAL MURDER OF [JECAR NEGHME]1, UNSOLVED LIKE SO MANY OTHERS,
HAS BEEN FOLLOWED BY OTHER SERIOUS EVENTS INCLUDING THE KIDNAPPING OF
THE DRIVER OF VOLODIA TEITELBOIM, THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE
COMMUNIST PARTY. THIS WAS A THREAT TO COMRADE VOLODIA TEITELBOIM'S
SAFETY AND PHYSICAL INTEGRITY. THERE HAS ALSO BEEN HARASSMENT OF
LEADERS AND CANDIDATES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND OTHER DEMOCRATIC
PARTIES, AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF ARBITRARY ARRESTS OF OPPONENTS
IN GENERAL, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW JOINT COMMAND HEADED BY THE
DEFENSE MINISTER. THE ALLEGED OBJECTIVE OF THIS COMMAND IS TO FIGHT
CRIME, BUT THE PEOPLE HAVE RIGHTLY GUESSED THAT IT IS A COVER FOR
POLITICAL REPRESSION SIMILAR TO THAT CONDUCTED BY A PRIOR ORGANIZATION
THAT BORE THE SAME NAME.

   IN THIS ANTICOMMUNIST AND ANTIDEMOCRATIC ATMOSPHERE, MEETINGS HAVE
BEEN HELD WITH OFFICERS AND RELATIVES OF MILITARY MEN. DURING THESE
MEETINGS THE AUDIENCE IS MISINFORMED, THREATENED, AND URGED TO OPPOSE
DEMOCRATIC CHANGES.  THEY ARE ALSO URGED TO HOARD STAPLES AND TO TAKE
SPECIAL MEASURES TO PROVIDE FOR EXTREME CONTINGENCIES.

   THERE IS YET ANOTHER ESPECIALLY SERIOUS DEVELOPMENT ABOUT WHICH WE
WANT TO INFORM THE PEOPLE.  WE HAVE RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS
SOURCES TO THE EFFECT THAT THE CROWNING POINT OF THIS ANTICOMMUNIST
CAMPAIGN WILL BE AN ATTACK ON A HIGH-RANKING ARMY OFFICER WHO HAS BEEN
CRITICIZED FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT IN HUMAN-RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.  THE
CHARGES AGAINST THIS OFFICER MADE BY COMMUNIST PARTY CANDIDATES FOR
SENATORS, AND THE DEMONSTRATIONS HELD AGAINST HIM BY THE RELATIVES OF
THE VICTIMS, WILL BE USED TO BLAME THE COMMUNISTS FOR THIS ATTACK.

   WE WANT TO REITERATE OUR ABSOLUTE REJECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS AND OUR DEMAND FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE. HOWEVER, WE ALSO WANT
TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT WE ARE STRUGGLING TO HAVE EVERY CRIME AND EVERY
VIOLATION INVESTIGATED AND THE CULPRITS TRIED.

   THE ATMOSPHERE OF FEAR AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE IS AIMED AT
TWISTING THE POPULAR WILL OF THE CHILEAN PEOPLE AND DESTABILIZING IN
ADVANCE THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION.

   WE CALL UPON THE CITIZENRY TO BE PREPARED TO DISPLAY UNITY AND
DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION SO AS TO GUARANTEE THE NORMAL DEVELOPMENT OF
THE ONGOING ELECTORAL PROCESS AND TO BE ON GUARD AGAINST ANY
PROVOCATION AIMED AT CREATING A CLIMATE FAVORABLE TO AN INTERRUPTION
OF THE PROCESS.  WE MUST DEPLOY OUR FORCES IF WE ARE TO ENSURE THE
VICTORY OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY IN A LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR PATRICIO
AYLWIN ON 14 DECEMBER AND THE ELECTION OF A CONGRESS CAPABLE OF
GUARANTEEING PROGRESS TOWARD THE GOVERNMENT SYSTEM THAT MOST CHILEANS
WANT.

   SIGNED: CHILEAN COMMUNIST PARTY

   DATED: SANTIAGO, 2 NOVEMBER 1989

THE LAUTARO POPULAR
REBEL FORCES (FRPL) AND THE LAUTARO YOUTH MOVEMENT (MJL) HELD THEIR
CLANDESTINE PLENARY SESSION IN SANTIAGO 5 MONTHS AGO.  ONE OF THE
DECISIONS ADOPTED DURING THE SESSION WAS TO RECRUIT MINORS, SHANTYTOWN
YOUTHS, AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS "TO FIGHT A GUERRILLA WAR IN CHILE,
BECAUSE THEY HAVE PLENTY OF MOTIVATION."

   THIS POLICY IS OUTLINED IN DOCUMENTS AND REPORTS THAT THOSE
TERRORIST GROUPS HAVE CIRCULATED IN SHANTYTOWNS AND AMONG THEIR
MEMBERS.  SOME OF THOSE DOCUMENTS AND REPORTS HAVE BEEN SEIZED FROM
BOYS WHO WERE ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF BEING DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN
LOOTING OF COMMERCIAL PREMISES AND IN THE BLOODY MURDERS OF
CARABINEROS PERSONNEL.

   SOME OF THOSE DOCUMENTS SAY THAT "SOCIALIST COUNTRIES ARE OUR
STRATEGIC ALLIES," AND THAT THE MOVEMENTS IDENTIFY THEMSELVES WITH
"THE REVOLUTIONARY FORM OF STRUGGLE AND WITH THE STRUGGLE IN THE
TRENCHES THAT CUBA, NICARAGUA, AND EL SALVADOR HAVE USED" TO REMAIN IN
THE FOREFRONT OF LATIN AMERICAN SOCIALISM.

   THE TWO TERRORIST MOVEMENTS MAINTAIN THAT "SEIZURE" OF LAND,
LOOTINGS, OCCUPATION OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, AND "THE RECOVERY OF
FIREARMS" ARE THE MAIN TACTICS TO BE UNDERTAKEN BY THE MASSES IN ORDER
TO "GAIN ELBOW ROOM."

   IN THE DOCUMENTS, THE MOVEMENTS ADVOCATE THE DISSEMINATION OF
VIOLENCE WITHIN THE MASSES, THE ADOPTION OF DEFENSIVE MEASURES IN
ORDER TO BEGIN AN OFFENSIVE, AND "A WAR BY EVERYONE" AS AN INEVITABLE
STEP FOR TAKING OVER THE COUNTRY.

   THE MOVEMENTS MAINTAIN THAT "THE FACT THAT THE REBEL ELEMENTS HAVE
DISCOVERED THEIR OWN GEOGRAPHICAL ZONE, THE POWER OF THE MASSES, AND
THE MASSIVE POTENTIAL OF YOUTHS, IS ONE OF THE MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS OF
THE PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT."

   THE DOCUMENTS EMPHASIZE THE TERRORIST ACTIONS PERFORMED BY THE
MANUEL RODRIGUEZ PATRIOTIC FRONT (FPMR) AND BY THE MOVEMENT OF THE
REVOLUTIONARY LEFT (MIR), STRESSING THAT THE MJL AND THE FRPL ARE THE
TWO OTHER CHILEAN EXTREMIST ORGANIZATIONS THAT "IMPLEMENT THE POLICY
OF THE VICTORY OF THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION."

   AS FOR THE SO-CALLED "WAR BY EVERYONE," THE DOCUMENTS POINTS OUT
THAT "IN THE CHILEAN VERSION, THERE ARE IRREGULAR FORCES WITH TRAINING
IN SUBVERSIVE TACTICS AND STRATEGY."

   THE MOVEMENTS MAINTAIN THAT THEIR MEMBERS OPERATE IN THE STREETS,
IN EDUCATION AND LABOR CENTERS, IN HIGH SCHOOLS, AND IN SHANTYTOWNS,
ADDING THAT "THE TACTICAL SEQUENCE OF ACTION AMONG THE MASSES SHOULD
BEGIN AND END WITH POPULAR UPRISINGS, WHICH LEAD TO A HIGHER STAGE OF
TRANSITION TOWARD "THE PEOPLE IN FLAMES" OR "THE PEOPLE IN ARMS."

   THE MOVEMENTS ADMIT THAT "THE ART OF REVOLUTION CONSISTS OF
AWAKENING THE AMBITION FOR POWER BY TEACHING THE MASSES TO DREAM OF
SOMETHING ELSE."

   ANOTHER PARAGRAPH OF THE LENGTHY DOCUMENTS STATES THAT: "WE DO NOT
DENY THE NEED TO REACH POLITICAL ACCORDS", WHICH WE -- AS A MATTER OF
PRINCIPLE --COMPLY WITH, BECAUSE "THE OBJECTIVE IS TO ADOPT A POSITION
OF INDEPENDENCE AND OF INITIATIVE IN THE OFFENSIVE, BECAUSE THE
REVOLUTIONS ARE FOUGHT IN THE STREETS AND IN THE DIFFERENT REGIONS OF
THE COUNTRY."

   CONCERNING THE CREATION OF THE TWO MOVEMENTS (BEGINNING IN 1983),
THE DOCUMENTS STATE THAT "OUR POLITICAL-MILITARY PROPOSAL TAKES ROOT
IN THE "WAR BY EVERYONE," A SYSTEM WHICH SOCIALIST COUNTRIES AND
TRIUMPHANT REVOLUTIONS HAVE USED TO DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM
IMPERIALISM.  THE MOST INTENSE EXPRESSION OF THIS POLICY HAS BEEN
REFLECTED BY THE VIETNAMESE REVOLUTION, BY THE SUSTAINED STRUGGLE IN
EL SALVADOR, AND BY THE RESISTANCE TO THE SPANISH INVASION BY THE
MAPUCHE PEOPLE, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF LAUTARO.

HOW TO OBTAIN WEAPONS

   IN A DOCUMENT DEALING WITH THE "REVOLTIONARY PROGRAM FOR CHILE,"
THE MOVEMENTS CLAIM THAT "OUR WEAPONS ARE OBTAINED THROUGH THE
PEOPLE'S INITIATIVE, THROUGH WEAPON SEIZURES FROM THE ENEMY (THIS IS A
CLEAR ALLUSION TO THE MURDER OF CARABINEROS, WHOSE ARMS THEY SEIZE),
AND THROUGH INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY."

   THE DOCUMENTS EMPHASIZE "THE OFFENSIVE WAR WHICH WE ARE NOW WAGING
SEEKS TO ASPHYXIATE THE ENEMY, OVERWHELM IT, AND IMPEDE ITS INITIATIVE
AND THE CONCENTRATION OF ITS FORCES.  WE SHOULD ALWAYS TRY TO CAUSE AS
MUCH DESTRUCTIVE DAMAGE TO THE ENEMY AS POSSIBLE."

   THE TERRORISTS CALL ON "YOUTHS TO WAGE THIS REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE
ON A NATIONWIDE BASIS," ADDING THAT "EVEN THOUGH THE HEAVIEST BURDEN
RESTS ON THE CITIES, THE COUNTRY AND RURAL AREAS ARE CONDUCIVE TO THE
INSTALLATION OF STRATEGIC FACILITIES."

   THE REPORT ON THE FIRST NATIONAL PLENUM (WHICH IS DATED MAY 1989)
HAS BEEN ESPECIALLY DEDICATED TO "ALL HIGH SCHOOL AND MID-LEVEL
STUDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN RECRUITED BY OUR GROUPS."

   AMONG THE SLOGANS INCLUDED IN THE DOCUMENTS, WHICH THE LAUTARO
MOVEMENT MEMBERS WILL USE THIS YEAR, ARE PHRASES LIKE "WE ARE A NEW
REVOLUTIONARY GENERATION," "WE ARE HAPPY, WE ARE REBEL, WE ARE ARMED,
AND THIS IS HOW WE WILL CARRY OUT THE REVOLUTION," "THE FATHERLAND FOR
THE PEOPLE," AND "FREE LOVE AND GUERRILLA."

   AFTER OUTLINING THE EIGHT TACTICAL OPERATIONS WHICH MAKE UP "THE
REVOLUTIONARY COURSE FOR THE MASSES WHO WILL FACE THE POLITICAL BREAK"
DURING THE REST OF THE YEAR, THE TWO MOVEMENTS STATE THAT "WE TOTAL
APPROXIMATELY 500,000 ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, AND SINCE 1983 WE HAVE
FOUGHT IN MORE THAN 30 TERRITORIES AND FRONTS."

   FINALLY, AS PART OF A SERIES OF CLEAR TERRORIST INSTRUCTIONS, THEY
CLAIM THAT THEY WORK "IN COORDINATION WITH THE FPMR AND WITH THE
MIR,"SO THAT "WITH THE YOUTH, THE PEOPLE, THE ARMS, AND THE IDEAS, WE
MAY TAKE OVER CHILE."

THE POLICE HAS REPORTED THAT
[ALLEGED MEMBERS]1 OF THE [ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION]1 ([ELN]1) KIDNAPPED
TODAY TWO MEXICANS IN THE ARAUCA OIL ZONE, NEAR THE
COLOMBIAN-VENEZUELAN BORDER.

   ENGINEERS [ARMANDO CAYCEDO CAMARGO]1 AND [CARLOS MORES]1, WHO WORK FOR
THE MEXICAN CONSORTIUM ICA, WERE KIDNAPPED WHEN THEY WERE TRAVELING
TOWARD THE SARABENA TOWNSHIP, IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY.

   OIL EXPLOITATION AND THE ASSOCIATION OF COLOMBIA WITH FOREIGN
ENTERPRISES ARE [ELN]1 WAR TARGETS.

   [ELN]1 GUERRILLA FIGHTERS CAPTURED OVER 3 MONTHS AGO ANOTHER MEXICAN
ENGINEER, WHO WAS EMPLOYED BY AN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY.

MEXICAN NARCOTICS
POLICE HAVE ARRESTED COLOMBIAN CITIZEN JORGE HUMBERTO CHALARIA, KNOWN
AS "EL NEGRO," THE REPRESENTATIVE IN MEXICO OF COLOMBIAN DRUG
TRAFFICKER GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "EL MEXICANO,"
THE TOP CHIEF OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE
(PGR) MADE KNOWN TODAY.

   CHALARIA, 30 YEARS OLD, 5 OTHER COLOMBIANS, 1 VENEZUELAN, AND 12
MEXICANS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED "IN THE LAST 2 DAYS" AND 550 KG OF PURE
COCAINE HAVE BEEN CONFISCATED IN OPERATIONS CONDUCTED IN THIS CITY AND
IN THE STATES OF SONORA AND TAMAULIPAS, A PGR SPOKESMAN SAID.

   THE GANG OF DRUG TRAFFICKERS LED BY CHALARIA WERE ABLE TO DELIVER
OVER 50 TONS OF PURE COCAINE TO THE STATES OF CALIFORNIA AND FLORIDA
IN THE LAST 4 YEARS, THE PGR SPOKESMAN ADDED.

   "EL NEGRO" CONFESSED THAT HE HAD BEEN IN MEXICO SINCE 1988 UNDER
THE ORDERS OF GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA, ACCORDING TO THE SAME SOURCE.

   THE INTERNATIONAL DRUG TRAFFICKING GANG HAD THE PROTECTION OF
ARTURO CUELLAR TIJERINA, COMMANDER OF THE TAMAULIPAS JUDICIAL POLICE,
WHO WAS ALSO ARRESTED.

   CUELLAR AND A GROUP OF POLICEMEN UNDER HIS ORDERS SUPPLIED FUEL TO
THE DRUG TRAFFICKERS, WHO BROUGHT THE DRUG INTO MEXICO BY MEANS OF
LIGHT AIRCRAFT, WHICH LANDED ON CLANDESTINE RUNWAYS NEAR THE BORDER
WITH THE UNITED STATES.

   THOSE ARRESTED CONFESSED THAT AMERICAN JULIO CHAGY DE LA ROSA, A
MIAMI RESIDENT, DISTRIBUTED THE DRUG AND "LAUNDERED" THE MONEY
OBTAINED IN THE DRUG TRAFFICKING BUSINESS THROUGH A COMPANY CALLED
"ITAL BAGNO," WHICH SUPPOSEDLY MANUFACTURED STOVES.

   THEY SAID THAT ON 29 OCTOBER THEY RECEIVED A LOAD OF 550 KG OF PURE
COCAINE FROM COLOMBIA, BROUGHT INTO THE COUNTRY FROM A RANCH LOCATED
IN SONORA. THE NARCOTICS POLICE DETECTED THE ILLEGAL OPERATION AT THE
RANCH AND ARRESTED ALFONSO CASTILLO ARMENTA AND HIS DAUGHTER, WHO HAD
MODERN RADIO COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE
COLOMBIAN PLANES AND WITH "EL NEGRO."

   THE INVESTIGATIONS LED THE POLICE TO A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD IN
THIS CAPITAL, WHERE "EL NEGRO" HAD RENTED A HOME IN WHICH HE LIVED
WITH A VENEZUELAN WOMAN BY THE NAME OF CRIATINA ROSAS RODRIGUEZ, WHO
COVERED UP THE ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED BY HER COMPANION.

   THE ARREST IS THE THIRD HEAVY BLOW DEALT ON THE INTERNATIONAL DRUG
TRAFFICKING BUSINESS BY THE MEXICAN POLICE IN THE LAST 3 WEEKS.

   ON 19 OCTOBER, THE POLICE ARRESTED COLOMBIANS RODRIGO DIZUNZA
OCHOA, NEPHEW OF DRUG TRAFFICKER FABIO OCHOA, AND ALFREDO AGUILAR
CASTRO, NEPHEW OF COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER RODRIGUEZ GACHA, WHO HAD
10 KG OF PURE COCAINE IN THEIR POSSESSION.

   EARLY THIS MONTH, MEXICAN RAFAEL MUNOZ TALAVERA WAS ARRESTED.  HE
ALLEGEDLY OWNS THE 20 TONS OF PURE COCAINE DISCOVERED IN A WAREHOUSE
IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, IN SEPTEMBER.

   SINCE PRESIDENT CARLOS SALINAS DE GORTARI TOOK OFFICE LAST
DECEMBER, THE MEXICAN NARCOTICS POLICE HAVE CONFISCATED 23 TONS OF
PURE COCAINE AND HAVE ARRESTED NEARLY 10,000 DRUG TRAFFICKERS.

THE SALVADORAN
GOVERNMENT HAS SAID THAT TODAY'S ATTACK ON THE [NATIONAL GUARD
HEADQUARTERS]2 -- IN WHICH TWO CHILDREN WERE KILLED AND EIGHT PEOPLE
WERE INJURED -- SHOWS THAT THE [GUERRILLAS]2 "DO NOT WANT PEACE AND WANT
TO ESCALATE VIOLENCE."

   IN A PRESS COMMUNIQUE, THE ALFREDO CRISTIANI GOVERNMENT SAID THAT
THE ATTACK "IS ANOTHER TERRORIST ACTION WHICH DIRECTLY AFFECTS THE
CIVILIAN POPULATION AND TRAMPLES HUMAN RIGHTS."

   LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT RICARDO VALDIVIESO TOLD ACAN - EFE
THAT THESE ACTIONS "SHOW THE [[FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION
FRONT]2]3'S ([[FMLN]2]3) BLINDNESS AND DESPERATION."

   NATIONAL GUARD DIRECTOR CORONEL JUAN CARLOS CARRILLO SAID: "THESE
ARE SUPPOSEDLY THE BIG ATTACKS BY THE TERRORISTS; HOWEVER, TODAY'S
ATTACK DID NOT CAUSE MUCH DAMAGE TO THE GARRISON; INSTEAD, TWO
CHILDREN WERE KILLED." THE CHILDREN WERE 1 AND 1/2 - AND 4-YEARS- OLD.
TWO SOLDIERS WERE ALSO WOUNDED.

   URBAN [GUERRILLAS]2 TODAY HURLED [BOMBS]2 AT THE [NATIONAL GUARD
HEADQUARTERS]2.  ONE OF THE [BOMBS]2 EXPLODED INSIDE THE MILITARY
FACILITIES AND THE REST LANDED IN A RAVINE.

   ONE OF THE EXPLOSIVES HIT A MODEST [HOME]2 KILLING TWO CHILDREN AND
INJURING FIVE CIVILIANS.

   BOMB EXPERTS DISMANTLED A CAR BOMB WHICH PRESUMABLY HAD BEEN LEFT
BY [GUERRILLAS]2 NEAR THE GARRISON.

   MEANWHILE, OFFICIAL SOURCES REPORTED THAT THE ARMY AND REBELS HAVE
SUSTAINED AT LEAST 20 CASUALTIES DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS AS A RESULT
OF CLASHES IN SAN SALVADOR AND MORAZAN DEPARTMENTS.

   ACCORDING TO THE ARMED FORCES PRESS COMMITTEE (COPREFA), 6
[GUERRILLAS]2 WERE KILLED AND 13 WERE WOUNDED IN THOSE CLASHES.  THE
REPORT NOTES THE DEATH OF ONE SOLDIER.

   ONE OF THE CLASHES, WHICH LASTED OVER 1 HOUR, OCCURRED ON THE
SLOPES OF THE SAN SALVADOR VOLCANO, NORTH OF SAN SALVADOR.

   ALONG WITH THE INTENSIFICATION OF MILITARY ACTIONS, THE [[FMLN]2]3 HAS
RESUMED ITS SABOTAGING OF THE [ELECTRICITY SYSTEM]3, LEAVING VAST AREAS
OF EL SALVADOR WITHOUT POWER.

   THE RATIONING OF ELECTRICITY HAS LASTED BETWEEN 4 TO 6 HOURS IN THE
METROPOLITAN AREA, AFFECTING INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION. THE LACK OF
TRAFFIC LIGHTS HAS RESULTED IN LARGE TRAFFIC JAMS.

GOOD EVENING SALVADORAN PEOPLE.  WE WANT TO INFORM YOU THAT A
[[CAR]1 [BOMB]1]2 HAS BEEN DEFUSED IN BERNAL AVENUE.  A [BOMB]2 WHICH HAD BEEN
PLACED BY [TERRORISTS]2 IN THE MONTEBON NEIGHBORHOOD WAS ALSO DEFUSED.
MEDICINES WERE ALSO FOUND IN THE MONTEBON AREA.

   THE MEJICANOS SECTOR IS ALREADY UNDER CONTROL.  THERE ARE ONLY
SMALL CLASHES IN THE ZACAMIL AREA.

   WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO STRESS OUR GOVERNMENT'S DETERMINATION TO
ACHIEVE PEACE FOR THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE.  WE KNOW THAT THIS RIDICULOUS
ACTION BY THE [[FMLN]1]2 ([[FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT]1]2) HAS ONE
OBJECTIVE WHICH IS INTENSIFYING TERROR, PAIN, AND DEATH AMONG THE
SALVADORAN PEOPLE.  HOWEVER, OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR GLORIOUS ARMED
FORCES WILL CONTINUE STRUGGLING TO ACHIEVE THE PEACE OUR PEOPLE WANT.

SEVERAL ATTACKS ARE TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW IN SEVERAL
PARTS OF THE CITY OF SAN SALVADOR. IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED THAT THE
CIVIL DEFENSE SECTOR IN SOYOPANGO IS UNDER ATTACK RIGHT NOW, AS WELL
AS A SECTOR OF THE AIR FORCE. STRONG EXPLOSIONS AND EXCHANGES OF
GUNFIRE HAVE BEEN HEARD. FOR THE TIME BEING, WE HAVE NO REPORTS OF ANY
CASUALTIES ON EITHER SIDE, THAT IS, THE EXTREMISTS OR THE ARMY.
HOWEVER, IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED THAT THE ATTACKS AGAINST THE MILITARY
GARRISONS BEGAN AT APPROXIMATELY 2045, AND THESE ATTACKS CONTINUE NOW
AT 2125.

   THESE ATTACKS ARE BEING CARRIED OUT BY MEMBERS OF THE FARABUNDO
MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT AGAINST VARIOUS MILITARY GARRISONS IN
SAN SALVADOR.

   WE URGE THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THOSE AREAS TO REFRAIN FROM GOING
OUT. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO MOVE IN THOSE AREAS. FOR THE TIME BEING,
PLEASE STANDBY, AND WHEN THE SITUATION IS UNDER CONTROL, THEN YOU WILL
BE ABLE TO GO HOME. FOR THE TIME BEING, THE SITUATION IS VERY
DIFFICULT, AS THE EXPLOSIONS ARE VERY STRONG. THE MACHINEGUN FIRE IS
VERY HEAVY.

TWO HOURS AFTER THE
LAUNCHING OF A [GUERRILLA]1 OFFENSIVE AGAINST MILITARY POSITIONS, THE
SOUND OF MACHINEGUNS AND EXPLOSIVE DEVICES IS STILL BEING HEARD IN
DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE SALVADORAN CAPITAL.

   THE OFFENSIVE, WHICH BEGAN AT 2000 (0200 GMT), ALSO INCLUDES
MILITARY POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF USULUTAN AND SAN MIGUEL, IN
THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY, ACCORDING TO REPORTS.

   MILITARY SOURCES HAVE CONFIRMED THE SIMULTANEOUS ATTACKS IN SAN
SALVADOR AND EYEWITNESSES HAVE REPORTED CLASHES IN RESIDENTIAL
NEIGHBORHOODS AND TOWNS OUTSIDE THE CAPITAL SUCH AS AYUTUXTEPEQUE,
CIUDAD DELGADO, SAN RAMON, MEJICANOS, AND SOYAPANGO.

   LIKEWISE, IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE ATTACKS WERE INTENSIFIED IN
VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS, SUCH AS CIUDAD MERLIOT, IN WESTERN SAN
SALVADOR.

   LOCAL RADIO STATIONS ANNOUNCED A NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK, WHILE ARMY
SPOKESMEN, WHICH HAVE YET TO GIVE A REPORT ON THE OFFENSIVE, ASKED THE
PEOPLE TO REMAIN HOME AND THOSE WHO ARE AWAY FROM THEIR HOMES, TO STAY
WHERE THEY ARE RIGHT NOW.

   ACCORDING TO THE ARMED FORCES, THE SITUATION IS "UNDER CONTROL" AND
"PEOPLE MUST REMAIN CALM."

   RADIO STATIONS HAVE JOINED A NATIONAL NETWORK AND ARE ONLY
TRANSMITTING MUSIC, WHICH IS INTERRUPTED TO BROADCAST REPORTS ON THE
MILITARY SITUATION.

   TWO [RED CROSS AMBULANCES]1 WERE DESTROYED AFTER BEING SHOT AT.

   HELICOPTERS WERE HEARD FLYING OVER THE CAPITAL, WHICH IN CERTAIN
AREAS, SUCH AS CIUDAD MERLIOT, ARE CARRYING OUT INTENSE BOMBINGS
AGAINST POSITIONS OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT
[GUERRILLA]1S.

AT 2340 ON 11
NOVEMBER, FMLN UNITS, USING RPG-7 ROCKET LAUNCHERS, GRENADE LAUNCHERS,
AND RIFLE FIRE, ATTACKED A PARATROOPER BATTALION AT THE COMALAPA
AIRPORT.  WE REPEAT, THE COMALAPA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS ATTACKED
AT MIDNIGHT.  WE ATTACKED A PARATROOPER BATTALION THAT WAS GUARDING
THE COMALAPA AIRPORT; WE USED RPG-7 ROCKET LAUNCHERS, GRENADE
LAUNCHERS, AND RIFLE FIRE.  WE ATTACKED AIRCRAFT BOTH INSIDE AND
OUTSIDE THE HANGAR.

   THE ATTACK AGAINST THE BRACAMONTE BATTALION, USING 81-MM MORTARS,
PROVOKED A FIRE INSIDE BRACAMONTE BATTALION INSTALLATIONS.  ATTENTION,
THE REPORT FROM COMALAPA STATES THAT THREE HELICOPTERS WERE COMPLETELY
DESTROYED, ONE OR TWO SMALL PLANES DESTROYED, AND TWO HANGARS AND THE
AIRCRAFT INSIDE THEM PARTIALLY DESTROYED.

   THE REPORT STATES THERE WERE NUMEROUS CASUALTIES AT THE COMALAPA
AIRPORT, INCLUDING AIR FORCE PILOTS.  IN SUM, THREE HELICOPTERS AND
ONE OR TWO SMALL PLANES WERE DESTROYED AT COMALAPA AIRPORT.  AS OF
NOW, A TOTAL OF FOUR HELICOPTERS AND ONE SMALL PLANE HAVE BEEN
DESTROYED.

   AS REPORTED EARLIER, AN HELICOPTER WAS DOWNED IN SAN MIGUEL AND
FELL OVER THE PAN-AMERICAN HIGHWAY.  THE REPORT STATES THAT AT 0630
(1230 GMT) TODAY, FMLN UNITS DOWNED AN HELICOPTER AT THE 15 SEPTEMBER
NEIGHBORHOOD IN SAN MIGUEL; IT FELL ON THE PAN-AMERICAN HIGHWAY.  THIS
CONFIRMS OUR EARLIER REPORT.

   ATTENTION, HERE IS A REPORT FROM THE CAPITAL SAN SALVADOR: OUR
COMBATANTS IN THE CAPITAL REPORT THAT THEY HAVE BESIEGED THE AREA
BETWEEN THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTHERN HIGHWAY AND NORTH 5TH AVENUE
AND THE 1ST IFANTRY BRIGADE.(AS HEARD) OUR FORCES HAVE OCCUPIED
POSITIONS IN THAT AREA AND NORTHERN AVENUE NEAR PANAMA STREET.  THEY
HAVE ATTACKED ALL POSITIONS IN THE NORTHERN AREA.

   ATTENTION, ATTENTION: IN THE CAPITAL, IN THE AREA ADJACENT TO THE
1ST INFANTRY BRIGADE, WE RECOVERED RIFLES, MACHINEGUNS, GRENADES, AND
OTHER MATERIEL.  ATTENTION, ATTENTION: THERE ARE ALSO REPORTS OF VERY
SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS IN ESCALON NEIGHBORHOOD.  OUR COMRADES ARE
REPORTING FROM THE CAPITAL THAT A NATIONAL POLICE TRUCK, WHICH WAS
LEAVING THE MONSERRAT GARRISON, WAS AMBUSHED.  WE ARE TOLD THAT THIS
AMBUSHED TRUCK WAS GOING TO REINFORCE STAFF INSTALLATIONS IN ARCE
NEIGHBORHOOD.

THE PEOPLE ARE PUNISHING THE FMLN.  THIS VIOLENCE, THIS
BLOODSHED CAUSED BY THIS TERRORIST AGGRESSION -- SPECIFICALLY THAT
BLOOD -- IS PRECISELY THE INSPIRATION WE HAVE FOR DEFEATING AND
BREAKING THE WILL TO FIGHT OF THIS TERRORIST FMLN.  WE WILL PREVAIL;
WE WILL WIN.  FIRST, BECAUSE WE HAVE THE TRUTH; SECOND, BECAUSE WE
BELIEVE THAT, AS CHRISTIANS, GOD IS WITH US; AND THIRD, BECAUSE WE
HAVE AN INDOMITABLE ESPRIT DE CORPS AS A PROFESSIONAL ARMY, AND WE ARE
DETERMINED TODAY -- AS BEFORE AND AS ALWAYS -- TO DEFEND OUR
TERRITORY, OUR HISTORY, OUR VALUES, OUR PRINCIPLES, AND TO DEFEND AND
PROTECT THE DIGNITY OF EACH AND EVERY SALVADORAN CITIZEN.

   WE ARE DEEPLY THANKFUL TO OUR PEOPLE FOR THEIR COURAGEOUS AND
HEROIC ATTITUDE.  WE ARE DEEPLY THANKFUL FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT THE
PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN THE ARMED FORCES. WE TAKE IT AS A CHALLENGE, AND YOU
CAN REST ASSURED, SALVADORAN PEOPLE, THAT JUST AS I, A SOLDIER OF THIS
FATHERLAND AND OF OUR ARMED FORCES, HAVE, ALL OF THOSE BEHIND ME HAVE
THE SAME RESOLVE TO STRUGGLE AND THE SAME SPIRIT TO FACE -- TODAY,
TOMORROW, AND ALWAYS -- THE TERRORIST CHALLENGE TO WHICH, TODAY AND IN
THE COMING HOURS, WE WILL RESPOND BY GIVING THEM A LESSON IN
PROFESSIONALISM.  OUR ATTITUDE IS PRECISELY ONE OF DEFENDING AND
GUARANTEEING THOSE RIGHTS, THAT SPIRIT, AND THAT RESOLVE, AND OF
DEFENDING AND GUARANTEEING THE SUPREME POSTULATES CONTAINED IN THE
CONSTITUTION.

   SALVADORAN PEOPLE, WE ASK FOR YOUR CONFIDENCE, FAITH, AND HOPE IN
GOD AND IN THE ARMED FORCES.  REST ASSURED THAT VERY SHORTLY WE WILL
HAVE VICTORY ON OUR SIDE.  THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT, FOR THE
ENCOURAGEMENT, AND -- SALVADORAN PEOPLE -- RECEIVE FROM THE ARMED
FORCES RESPECTFUL AND CORDIAL GREETINGS, AND THE ASSURANCES THAT YOUR
ARMED FORCES WILL VERY SOON RESOLVE THIS VIOLENCE IMPOSED BY
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.

   AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC REQUESTED, WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU
REMAIN CALM AND STAY AT HOME.  I BELIEVE THAT FOR REASONS OF YOUR OWN
SECURITY, IT IS NOT ADVISABLE TO LEAVE YOUR HOMES.  THE SITUATION IS
BEING CONTROLLED SLOWLY.

   THE MAIN PROBLEMS NOW ARE IN THE NORTHERN SECTOR OF THE CAPITAL
CITY.  WE BELIEVE THAT WE WILL HAVE FULL CONTROL OF THE SITUATION
WITHIN THE NEXT FEW HOURS.  MEANWHILE, SALVADORAN PEOPLE, HAVE FAITH,
HOPE, AND CONFIDENCE IN YOUR ARMED FORCES, IN GOD AND IN THE
DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS OF OUR PEOPLE.  THANK YOU AND GOOD AFTERNOON.

THE SALVADORAN ARMY
ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THIS WEEKEND'S GUERRILLA OFFENSIVE HAS RESULTED
IN 127 DEAD AND 155 WOUNDED, WHILE THE REBELS CLAIM THEY HAVE
INFLICTED OVER 400 CASUALTIES ON THE GOVERNMENT FORCES.

   ACCORDING TO THE ARMED FORCES PRESS COMMITTEE (COPREFA), THE
REBELS OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) HAVE
SUSTAINED 148 CASUALTIES (93 DEAD AND 55 WOUNDED).

   ACCORDING TO COPREFA, THERE ARE 26 DEAD AND 65 WOUNDED AMONG THE
ARMY RANKS AND 8 DEAD AND 35 WOUNDED AMONG THE CIVILIANS.

   THE GUERRILLAS' CLANDESTINE RADIO VENCEREMOS REPORTED 400 MILITARY
CASUALTIES, WITHOUT SPECIFYING THE FIGURES ON THE DEAD AND WOUNDED AND
WITHOUT MENTIONING CASUALTIES AMONG THE REBELS.

FIGHTING HAS
CONTINUED IN SAN MIGUEL.  FORCES FROM THE 3D INFANTRY BRIGADE HAVE
BEEN DISLODGED FROM THE URBINA BRIDGE AND MANY CASUALTIES WERE
INFLICTED ON THEM THERE.

   IN ADDITION, AS WE HAVE ALREADY REPORTED, A HELICOPTER WAS HIT AT THE
15 SEPTEMBER HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.  IT WAS SHOT DOWN BY OUR ANTIAIRCRAFT
FIRE AT THE 15 SEPTEMBER HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN SAN MIGUEL AND FELL ON THE
PAN-AMERICAN HIGHWAY.  LATER, ANOTHER HELICOPTER WAS DAMAGED IN SAN
MIGUEL, WHERE HELICOPTER PILOTS DO NOT WANT TO LAND BECAUSE THEY ARE
AFRAID OF OUR ANTIAIRCRAFT FIRE.

   ACCORDING TO REPORTS, NATIONAL POLICE POSITIONS IN NUEVA CONCEPCION,
CHALATENANGO DEPARTMENT, HAVE BEEN ATTACKED.  AT 0645, FIGHTING
CONTINUES.  THE MESS HALL, THE AMMUNITION WAREHOUSE, AND THE TRAINING
FIELD HAVE BEEN AFFECTED.  THE GARRISON OF THE NATIONAL POLICE HAS
SUFFERED CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE.

   FURTHER FIGHTING WAS REPORTED AT 0646 IN ZACATECOLUCA, LA PAZ
DEPARTMENT.  OUR COMRADES IN ZACATECOLUCA REPORT THAT THE FIGHTING IS
HEAVY.  WE URGE THE PEOPLE TO ORGANIZE TO OBTAIN WATER AND FOOD.  WE URGE
THE PEOPLE TO ORGANIZE AND JOIN THE RANKS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY.

   REPORTS ARE THAT THERE IS FIGHTING AT THIS MOMENT IN THE MONTSERRAT
DISTRICT, NEAR CUSCATLAN STADIUM IN SAN SALVADOR.  THE CAPITAL HAS NO
POWER AND WATER IS BECOMING SCARCE.

   WITH REGARD TO ELECTRICAL POWER, THE SITUATION IS THE SAME THROUGHOUT
THE NATION'S TERRITORY.  IN A NUTSHELL, THE HIGH COMMAND HAS COMPLETELY
LOST CONTROL OF THE SITUATION.  THERE IS NO ELECTRICITY IN MOST OF EL
SALVADOR'S TERRITORY AND THERE IS NO TRANSPORTATION BECAUSE IT IS 100
PERCENT PARALYZED.  FIGHTING IS TAKING PLACE IN DEPARTMENT CAPITALS AT
THIS MOMENT, WHILE THE GUERRILLAS HAVE BEEN FIGHTING IN THE CAPITAL FOR 30
CONSECUTIVE HOURS.  HOWEVER, THERE IS ONE IMPORTANT FACTOR NOW.  OUR
COMRADES' COMMAND ECHELONS, WHO ARE COMMUNICATING WITH US FROM THE
CAPITAL'S DISTRICTS, ARE TELLING US THAT YOUTHS ARE MASSIVELY JOINING THE
FORTIFICATION WORK -- DIGGING DITCHES, CARRYING FOOD AND AMMUNITION, AND
HANDLING LIGHT ARTILLERY PIECES AND MACHINEGUNS; IN OTHER WORDS, ALL THAT
IS NECESSARY TO FIGHT INSIDE THE CITIES AND IN THE SUBURBS.  THEIR
INCORPORATION IN ALL CITIES IS A VERY IMPORTANT FACTOR.

   FOR THIS REASON, WE CALL ON YOUNG PEOPLE IN ALL DEPARTMENTAL CAPITALS
TO LOOK FOR OUR FORCES, TO LOOK FOR OUR COMRADES, TO ORGANIZE IN EACH
DISTRICT AND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT THE BRIGADES THAT WILL BE IN CHARGE OF
THE FOOD SUPPLY, TO DIG MORE DITCHES, TO BUILD ANTIAIRCRAFT SHELTERS, AND
TO SUPPLY INFORMATION, WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT AT THIS MOMENT.  WE
MUST ORGANIZE THE INFORMATION NETWORK.  WE MUST HAVE VIGILANCE IN EVERY
CORNER IN EVERY DISTRICT AND NEIGHBORHOOD.

   WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT EARLY TODAY THE ARMED FORCES CARRIED OUT A
NUMBER OF SEARCHES AND ARRESTS IN THE CAPITAL.  WELL, WE CALL ON THE
POPULATION TO ORGANIZE AGAINST THE SEARCHES AND ARRESTS. ESTABLISH
VIGILANCE.  DO NOT LET THEM TAKE AWAY ANYBODY.  ARM YOURSELVES -- TAKE OUT
YOUR PISTOLS, MAKE MOLOTOV COCKTAILS WITH BOTTLES AND GASOLINE -- IN OTHER
WORDS, DEFEND YOURSELVES.

   AT 0704, IT WAS REPORTED TO US FROM SAN SALVADOR THAT FIGHTING IS
TAKING PLACE IN EL CARMEN AGAINST THE NATIONAL POLICE.  A NEW PLACE HAS
BEEN ADDED TO THOSE IN WHICH MILITARY ACTIVITY IS TAKING PLACE.

   MEANWHILE, OTHER REPORTS INDICATE THAT FMLN SNIPERS ARE HARASSING THE
ARMY'S MOVEMENTS IN VARIOUS PLACES IN THE CAPITAL.  THE REPORT SAYS THAT
OUR SNIPERS POSTED IN THE TALLEST BUILDINGS ARE EFFECTIVELY KEEPING THE
ARMY PATROLS AND MOVEMENTS AT BAY.  THE ARMY IS BEGINNING TO HAVE TROUBLE
EVACUATING ITS WOUNDED, BECAUSE IN THE CAPITAL EPISODES ARE NOW TAKING
PLACE WHICH HAD BEEN ONLY SEEN IN MORAZAN BEFORE; THAT IS, HELICOPTERS
FLYING IN TO PICK UP THE WOUNDED, AS THEY DID IN THE VALLEYS AND THE
PLAINS.  THIS IS HAPPENING NOW IN THE CAPITAL BECAUSE THE ARMY TROOPS
CANNOT ADVANCE INTO CERTAIN AREAS TO PICK UP THEIR DEAD AND WOUNDED, WHO
ARE VERY, VERY NUMEROUS.  THE HELICOPTERS NOW HAVE TO LAND IN SOCCER
FIELDS AND IN OTHER PLACES TO EVACUATE THE WOUNDED.  SUCH IS THE SITUATION
IN SAN SALVADOR.  AS WE HAVE ALREADY REPORTED, FIGHTING CONTINUES IN
VARIOUS PLACES IN THE CAPITAL, WHERE THERE ARE FMLN-CONTROLLED AREAS.

ACCORDING TO CIVILIAN
EYEWITNESSES, SALVADORAN ARMY TROOPS BOMBED THE UNIVERSITY'S SCHOOL OF
MEDICINE.

   THE SAME SOURCES REPORTED THAT SOLDIERS OF THE 1ST INFANTRY BRIGADE
CAPTURED AND BLINDFOLDED 10 UNIVERSITY GUARDS YESTERDAY AND THEN TOOK THEM
OFF THE CAMPUS.

   ACCORDING TO THESE EYEWITNESSES, ARMY TROOPS ENTERED THE UNIVERSITY OF
EL SALVADOR USING AN ARMORED VEHICLE AND A 105-MM CANNON.  THEY SAID THAT
THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WAS BOMBED LATER ON.  HOWEVER, OFFICIAL SOURCES
HAVE NEITHER CONFIRMED NOR DENIED THIS REPORT.

   THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT AND ARMED FORCES HAVE ACCUSED THE UNIVERSITY
OF EL SALVADOR OF BEING A GUERRILLA "SANCTUARY" AND HAVE SAID THAT THE 1ST
INFANTRY BRIGADE WAS ATTACKED FROM THE CAMPUS.

   IN ADDITION, THESE EYEWITNESSES SAID THAT 10 UNIVERSITY "GUARDS" WERE
CAPTURED ON CAMPUS, WHICH IS LOCATED NEAR THE 1ST INFANTRY BRIGADE, ONE OF
THE GARRISONS ATTACKED BY THE GUERRILLAS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE REBEL
OFFENSIVE BEGUN ON THE NIGHT OF 11 NOVEMBER.

   ACCORDING TO THESE SOURCES, THE SOLDIERS SEIZED PROPAGANDA MATERIAL.

   THE [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT]1 (FMLN) BEGAN AN OFFENSIVE
ON 11 NOVEMBER, WHICH HAS INCLUDED AN [ATTACK ON THE HOMES OF IMPORTANT
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS]1, INCLUDING THAT OF SALVADORAN PRESIDENT [ALFREDO
CRISTIANI]1.

   ON THE SAME NIGHT, THE REBELS ALSO ATTACKED THE NATIONAL POLICE
HEADQUARTERS IN ZACAMIL, ONE OF THE MOST POPULATED NEIGHBORHOODS IN
NORTHERN SAN SALVADOR, AS WELL AS MILITARY POSITIONS IN A DOZEN
RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS LOCATED IN VARIOUS SECTORS OF THIS CAPITAL. THE
FIGHTING THEN SPREAD TO SANTA ANA, CABANAS, LA PAZ, SAN VICENTE, SAN
MIGUEL, AND USULUTAN DEPARTMENTS IN THE COUNTRY'S NORTH, CENTRAL, AND
EASTERN PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.

   THE REBEL OFFENSIVE HAS ALREADY RESULTED IN HUNDREDS OF CASUALTIES --
APPROXIMATELY 300 ACCORDING TO THE ARMY, AND 400 ACCORDING TO THE
GUERRILLAS.  THIS COMPELLED THE GOVERNMENT TO IMPOSE A STATE OF SIEGE AND
A CURFEW THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.

...CARRY OUT THE PERTINENT AND NECESSARY ACTIONS
AND THUS CONTRIBUTE TO THE STABILIZATION OF THE SITUATION SO THAT WE
MAY AGAIN ENJOY THE SAFETY AND CALM CURRENTLY BEING AFFECTED BY
TERRORIST RAIDS IN SOME AREAS AROUND SAN MIGUEL.  WE AS AN INSTITUTION
WILL GUARANTEE THAT IN THE NEXT 8 OR 10 HOURS THE PEACE YOU NEED WILL
BE REGAINED.  THIS IS A PROMISE WE ARE MAKING, AND WE WILL KEEP IT SO
THAT YOU WILL REALLY HAVE THAT TRANQUILITY YOU NEED.  HOWEVER, I MUST
ASK THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT ON THE STREET TO PLEASE REFRAIN FROM DOING
THIS.  IF YOU ARE OUT ON THE STREET, PLEASE DO NOT RUN IF YOU SEE
SOLDIERS.  WALK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET.  YOU WILL NOT HAVE
TROUBLE.  WE DO NOT USE VIOLENCE.  WE USE MILITARY CONTROL TECHNIQUES.
WE DO NOT USE IRRATIONAL TERROR.  WE USE STRICTLY MILITARY TECHNIQUES
AND TACTICS.

   WE ASK THAT YOU REFRAIN FROM GOING OUT IN THE NEXT 8 HOURS, OR AT LEAST
STAY OFF THE STREETS.  IF YOU MUST GO OUT, DO IT, BUT WALK IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE STREET.  DO NOT RUN, AND DO NOT FEAR THE AUTHORITIES.  THE
AUTHORITIES ARE THERE TO PROTECT YOUR SAFETY WHICH IS BEING AFFECTED.  THE
AUTHORITIES WISH TO GIVE YOU BACK YOUR TRANQUILITY.  I WANT YOU TO REST
ASSURED THAT WE WILL NOT FAIL YOU.  BEFORE A MARXIST-LENINIST PLAN TAKES
OVER ONE OF OUR CITIES OR TOWNS, THEY WILL HAVE TO WALK OVER THE BODIES OF
EACH AND EVERY SOLDIER. THE SOLDIERS ARE WILLING TO DEFEND EACH AND EVERY
ONE OF YOU.

   THAT IS WHAT I WANTED TO TELL YOU.  I JUST WANTED TO SEND YOU THIS
MESSAGE OF FAITH, HOPE, AND TRUST IN YOUR GOVERNMENT AND YOUR
INSTITUTION.  THAT IS ESSENTIAL.  WE MUST NOT YIELD WHEN CONFRONTED BY
MARXIST OR COMMUNIST PLANS.  OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR ARMED FORCES NEED YOUR
SUPPORT TODAY MORE THAN EVER.  SUPPORT OUR STRUGGLE IN DEFENSE OF THE
DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM.  REST ASSURED THAT ALONG THIS PATH THERE IS NO RETURN.
WE EITHER ACHIEVE OUR FINAL GOAL OF CONSOLIDATION, OR WE FALL ALONG THE
PATH.  WE MUST GIVE OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS A FREE AND DEMOCRATIC
HOMELAND.  IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I WILL BE MORE THAN GLAD TO ANSWER
THEM; HOWEVER, THIS WAS THE MESSAGE I WANTED TO LEAVE WITH YOU.

IN FRONT OF US
WE HAVE A MAP OF SAN SALVADOR, WHERE OUR COMRADES ARE BUILDING
BARRICADES THROUGHOUT THE CITY.  WE HAVE THE MAP OF SAN SALVADOR
SHOWING THE NORTHERN PART OF THE CITY COVERED WITH LITTLE RED FLAGS.
THESE ARE POINTS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL
LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN).  THESE ARE AREAS WHERE OUR FORCES ARE
ATTACKING ARMY POSITIONS AND WHERE AMBUSHES HAVE BEEN SET.  THERE ARE
FLAGS POINTING TO AREAS WHERE AMBUSHES HAVE BEEN SET, AREAS FROM WHICH
SOLDIERS HAVE BEEN DISLODGED, AND AREAS UNDER FMLN CONTROL.

   IF WE LOOK AT THE NORTHERN PART OF THE CITY MAP WE CAN SEE LITTLE RED
FLAGS IN THE AREA OF ZACAMIL, EL CARMEN NEIGHBORHOOD, EL CARMEN HILL AREA,
UNIVERSITARIA NEIGHBORHOOD, MEJICANOS, EL PORVERNIR NEIGHBORHOOD, CIUDAD
DELGADO, SAN SEBASTIAN NEIGHBORHOOD, GUADALCANAL NEIGHBORHOOD, CUSCATLAN
AND LOMAS DE RIO NEIGHBORHOODS, AND ALL OF SOYAPANGO.  FMLN FORCES ARE ALL
OVER THE SOYAPANGO AREA.

   RED AND WHITE FLAGS DENOTE FIRING LINES, AND THESE ARE FOUND IN CIUDAD
CREDISA AND DOWNTOWN AMATEPEQUE.  THE SAME RED AND WHITE FLAGS ALSO SHOW
HOW OUR REVOLUTIONARY FORCES ARE ADVANCING.  WE SEE THESE RED AND WHITE
FLAGS IN ANTIGUO CUSCATLAN.  LIKEWISE, IN SANTA TECLA OUR FORCES ARE
MOBILIZING AND STRENGTHENING THEIR POSITIONS.

   OUR LATEST REPORT STATES THAT IN DOWNTOWN SAN SALVADOR, ONLY 10 BLOCKS
FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE, HUGE BARRICADES HAVE BEEN BUILT BY THE
PEOPLE AND THE FMLN, THUS CONSOLIDATING OUR POSITION.  THIS LATEST REPORT
CONFIRMS THIS INFORMATION, AND WE ARE GOING TO STICK A LITTLE RED FLAG
ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, 10 BLOCKS FROM THE
PRESIDENTIAL PALACE.  THE LITTLE RED FLAG CAN NOW BE SEEN IN SAN JACINTO
NEIGHBORHOOD.

1. GIVEN THE STATE OF SIEGE THAT
HAS PREVAILED IN THE COUNTRY SINCE 11 NOVEMBER, AND ACCORDING TO THE
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION, THE CIVILIAN POPULATION IS REQUIRED TO
COOPERATE WITH THE ARMED FORCES AND THE VARIOUS SECURITY CORPS WHEN
NECESSARY -- MAKING SURE THIS COOPERATION INVOLVES ARMY MEMBERS OR
DULY AUTHORIZED JUDICIAL OFFICIALS.

   2. UPON LEARNING THAT ARMED TERRORISTS ARE OPERATING NEAR YOUR AREAS OF
RESIDENCE, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY CALL TELEPHONE NUMBER 123 OR NOTIFY THE
NEAREST MILITARY POST.

   3. THE POPULATION MUST REMAIN CALM AND GO TO WORK, WHILE AT THE SAME
TIME MAKING SURE THAT YOU ARE IN YOUR RESPECTIVE RESIDENCES WHEN THE
CURFEW GOES INTO EFFECT AT 1800.

   4. THE SALVADORAN POPULATION MUST REMAIN IN THEIR RESIDENCES AND STAY
OFF THE STREETS, EVEN UPON HEARING THAT AN ANTISUBVERSIVE OPERATION IS
TAKING PLACE NEARBY -- THIS IS PARTICULARLY NECESSARY FOR MINORS.

   5.  THE SALVADORAN POPULATION ENGAGED IN COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES,
PARTICULARLY THE SALE OF STAPLES, MUST REMEMBER THAT THERE IS A DECREE
THAT FORBIDS MARKING UP PRICES, SINCE THIS WOULD BE AN ANTIPATRIOTIC
ACTION DURING THESE CRUCIAL TIMES FOR THE COUNTRY.

   6.  THE SALVADORAN POPULATION MUST REMAIN ALERT TO THE INFORMATION
BEING ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ARMED FORCES, BECAUSE IT WILL
BE PROVIDED ON A REGULAR BASIS AND ACCORDING TO THE TRUTH.  THE
CIVILIAN POPULATION CAN ALSO REST ASSURED THAT THE SALVADORAN ARMED
FORCES ARE EFFICIENTLY AND PROFESSIONALLY CONTROLLING THE GROUPS OF
FMLN (FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT) TERRORIST CRIMINALS.
THEREFORE, THE POPULATION MUST REMAIN CALM AND REJECT THE
DISINFORMATION BEING ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
SUBVERSION.

SINCE
1981 THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) HAS BEEN
INSISTING ON THE NEED FOR A POLITICAL SOLUTION TO THE WAR.  ITS
EFFORTS MET WITH THE STUBBORN OPPOSITION OF THE ARMED FORCES AND THE
COUNTRY'S ULTRARIGHTIST SECTORS, WHO ARE THE ONES WHO IN REALITY HAVE
WIELDED TOTAL POWER.

   WE PRESENTED DOZENS OF NEGOTIATING PROPOSALS IN WHICH WE INCREASINGLY
MADE OUR POSITIONS MORE FLEXIBLE, EVEN THOUGH THE MILITARY REALITY
DEMONSTRATED THAT WE WERE INVINCIBLE.  WE PRESENTED TO THE CURRENT
NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE (ARENA) GOVERNMENT A PROPOSAL THAT HAD
REAL POSSIBILITIES OF BRINGING ABOUT PEACE.  HOWEVER, THE RESPONSE WE
RECEIVED WAS AN ESCALATION OF REPRESSION BY MEANS OF TORTURE AND MURDER,
WHICH CULMINATED WITH THE MASSACRE OF THE WORKERS OF THE SALVADORAN
WORKERS NATIONAL UNION FEDERATION (FENASTRAS).

   THE GOVERNMENT REJECTED OUR FORMULAS FOR NEGOTIATION IN WORD AND IN
DEED, AND INSTEAD DEEPENED THE CAUSES BEHIND THE WAR BY WORSENING THE
SOCIAL CRISIS AND REDUCING THE RANGE OF ACTIVITY OF THE POPULAR SECTORS.
FACED WITH A DANGEROUS SITUATION THAT THREATENED NOT ONLY TO SHUT OFF A
PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO THE WAR, BUT INSTEAD TO INCREASE THE KILLINGS AND
OTHER FLAGRANT VIOLATIONS OF OUR PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS, THE FMLN
DECIDED TO LAUNCH A FORCEFUL AND STRATEGIC MILITARY OFFENSIVE THAT WOULD
PUT A HALT TO THE FASCISTS AND OPEN UP A POSSIBILITY TO BRING AN END TO
THE WAR.

   CONSEQUENTLY, AT 2000 ON 11 NOVEMBER OUR FORCES ENTERED INTO COMBAT
AGAINST ALL THE TARGETS DESIGNATED IN OUR OFFENSIVE PLAN, DESPITE ALL THE
PREVENTIVE MEASURES AND ARRANGEMENTS SET UP BY THE ARMY TO TRY TO HALT
US.  OUR EXPERIENCED FIGHTERS, IN SPITE OF THE DISADVANTAGE IN FORCES AND
ARMS, HAVE FULFILLED OUR GOALS BEYOND OUR EXPECTATIONS, CARRYING OUT ONE
OF THE MOST GLORIOUS MILITARY BATTLES IN THE HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE'S WAR.
IN UNDER 15 HOURS, WE GAINED CONTROL OVER STRATEGIC TERRITORIES, WIPED OUT
DOZENS OF ENEMY TROOPS, TOOK PRISONERS, RECOVERED WEAPONS, AND DESTROYED
ARMORED VEHICLES AND AIRPLANES.

   AFTER 4 CONTINUOUS DAYS OF FIGHTING, OUR FORCES HAVE REJECTED ALL
COUNTERATTACKS BY THE ENEMY AND HAVE GAINED NEW POSITIONS.  THOUSANDS OF
RESIDENTS OF THE CITIES HAVE STAGED POPULAR UPRISINGS TO SUPPORT OUR
FORCES, WHICH HAVE BEEN AUGMENTED BY NEW FIGHTERS.  FACED WITH THIS
SITUATION, THE ARENA GOVERNMENT AND THE CLIQUE OF CORRUPT MILITARY
OFFICERS KNOWN AS LA TANDONA WHO COMMAND THE ARMED FORCES, HAVE ORDERED
CRIMINAL BOMBINGS OF THE CIVILIAN POPULATION WITH THE PURPOSE OF PUTTING
DOWN THE POPULAR UPRISINGS.  THIS HAS BROUGHT ABOUT MORE SUPPORT FOR OUR
FORCES AND REDOUBLED THE PEOPLE'S RAGE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT LED BY
CRISTIANI AND THE ARMY.  A SITUATION HAS THUS COME ABOUT WHICH DEMANDS
THAT OUR FORCES CARRY OUT THE DECISION TO CONTINUE THE OFFENSIVE THAT OUR
FORCES AND THE PEOPLE HAVE UNLEASHED UNTIL ITS FINAL CONSEQUENCES.
(CONTINUED)

PEACE
IS POSSIBLE ONLY IF WE EVICT FROM POWER THOSE WHO HAVE PROFITED FROM
WAR.  CONSEQUENTLY, THE FMLN GENERAL COMMAND:

   1.  ORDERS THAT ALL OUR UNITS MUST HOLD THE POSITIONS CONQUERED,
ORGANIZE THE GENERAL UPRISING OF OUR PEOPLE, AND CARRY OUT ALL THE TASKS
DEALING WITH THE POPULATION'S SECURITY AND DEFENSE AND THE COLLECTION OF
FOOD AND ITS DISTRIBUTION TO THE NEEDY.

   2.  CALLS THE PEOPLE TO A GENERAL UPRISING SO THEY CAN JOIN US IN
BATTLE IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY WITH ALL TYPES OF WEAPONS TO DEFEND
THEMSELVES AND STRIKE THE ENEMY.

   3.  ANNOUNCES THAT, EFFECTIVE AS SOON AS THIS MANIFESTO IS ANNOUNCED,
WE DECLARE AS TERRITORIES LIBERATED BY THE PEOPLE ALL THE AREAS UNDER OUR
CONTROL IN MORAZAN, SAN MIGUEL, LA UNION, USULUTAN, CUSCATLAN,
CHALATENANGO, SAN VICENTE, AND CABANAS DEPARTMENTS.  IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THIS, OUR FORCES AND THE PEOPLE WILL ORGANIZE POPULAR GOVERNMENTS IN EVERY
MUNICIPALITY IN THESE DEPARTMENTS.  SIMULTANEOUSLY, OUR FORCES THAT
CONTROL TERRITORIES IN THE CITIES MUST INTENSIFY THE STRUGGLE TO ENSURE
TOTAL CONTROL OF THE COUNTRY.

   4.  URGES ALL THE WORKERS TO STOP WORKING AS PART OF THE GENERALIZED
STRUGGLE, WHICH WILL HELP WEAKEN THE JANUARY GOVERNMENT AND WILL ENABLE
ALL TO JOIN US IN COMBAT.  THEREFORE, WE HEREBY ANNOUNCE THAT THE CURRENT
TRANSPORTATION STOPPAGE, THE SABOTAGING OF THE ENERGY SUPPLY, AND THE
CLOSING OF GASOLINE STATIONS WILL CONTINUE FOR AN INDEFINITE TIME.  FOR
THIS REASON, THE PEOPLE MUST PREPARE FOR THIS SITUATION.  WE STERNLY WARN
THOSE EMPLOYERS WHO FORCE THEIR WORKERS TO GO TO WORK THAT OUR FORCES HAVE
BEEN INSTRUCTED TO IMPOSE OBEDIENCE TO THIS MEASURE.

   5.  ASKS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS TO
SEND HELP TO THE CIVILIAN VICTIMS OF BOMBINGS AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE
CREATION OF REFUGES AND CENTERS TO PROTECT THE POPULATION FROM THE
CRIMINAL ACTIONS UNLEASHED BY CRISTIANI'S GOVERNMENT AND THE ARMED FORCES
HIGH COMMAND.

   6.  URGENTLY CALLS ALL POLITICAL AND SOCIAL FORCES, POPULAR
ORGANIZATIONS, AND PRIVATE BUSINESSMEN IN OUR COUNTRY TO ASSUME AT THIS
TIME THE HISTORIC ROLE OF MAKERS AND BUILDERS OF A NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
SOLUTION THAT CAN BRING LASTING PEACE TO OUR COUNTRY.

   7.  MAKES A PATRIOTIC EXHORTATION TO OFFICERS AND THE RANK AND FILE
OF THE ARMY NOT TO LET THE BIG BATCH (LA TANDONA, THE GRADUATING CLASS
OF THE MAJORITY OF THE CURRENT ARMY STAFF MEMBERS), ARENA, AND THE
U.S.  INTERESTS LEAD THEM TO CONFRONT THE PEOPLE, THUS STAINING THEIR
HANDS WITH BLOOD.  THE FMLN DOES NOT REGARD THEM AS ENEMIES AND IS
READY TO MAKE PEACE WITH THE ARMY SECTORS WHO DESIRE JUSTICE,
SOVEREIGNTY, AND TRUE DEMOCRACY FOR OUR PEOPLE.  THE ENEMY OF THE
PEOPLE AND ALL OF OUR COUNTRY'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL FORCES IS LA
TANDONA, WHO HAVE ENRICHED THEMSELVES WITH WAR, AND THE ARENA DEATH
SQUADS.  THEY ARE THE ENEMIES OF PEACE AND DEMOCRACY.  THEY ARE THE
ONES WHO DO NOT WANT A REGIME OF JUSTICE.  WE CALL ALL THE NATION TO
FIGHT THEM SO WE CAN SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, WHICH THE TYRANNY HAS
TRIED TO BURY, AND WHICH SAYS: FREEDOM IS ITS DOGMA AND GUIDELINE,
WHICH IT HAS SWORN TO DEFEND A THOUSAND TIMES, AND JUST AS MANY TIMES,
HAS SWORN TO REJECT THE HATEFUL POWER OF A BOLD TYRANNY.

   (SIGNED) FMLN GENERAL COMMANDERS SALVADOR SANCHEZ SEREN, EDUARDO
SANCHO, FRANCISCO JOVEL, SHAFIK JORGE HANDAL, JOAQUIN VILLALOBOS.

   EL SALVADOR, 13 NOVEMBER 1989.

OUR FORCES HAVE ALSO
ENGAGED TROOPS POSTED AT THE PRESIDENTE HOTEL AND IN ITS VICINITY, BUT ONCE
AGAIN RESPECTED THE U.S. AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE.  DURING THE ENTIRE MANEUVER
WE INFLICTED APPROXIMATELY 20 CASUALTIES ON THE ENEMY, BUT WE DID NOT LOSE
ANY MEN.

   MEANWHILE, WE HAVE HAD REPORTS FROM SAN SALVADOR THAT THE AIR FORCE
IS BOMBING HEAVILY DENSELY POPULATED AREAS IN THE SECTOR OF CIUDAD
DELGADO.  COMMANDER CARLOS ANNOUNCED THIS AT A NEWS CONFERENCE IN SAN
SALVADOR: A GOVERNMENT THAT BOMBS THE PEOPLE IS AN ILLEGITIMATE
GOVERNMENT; A GOVERNMENT FACING THOUSANDS OF SALVADORANS IN ARMS IS AN
ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT; AND A GOVERNMENT THAT MASSACRES THE PEOPLE IS
AN ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT; AND AN ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT MUST BE
TOPPLED BY OUR FORCES.

   NOW, WE HAVE A LAST-MINUTE REPORT FROM SAN SALVADOR.  AT THIS VERY
MOMENT, AN O-2 AIRPLANE IS THROWING ROCKETS AT THE AREA OF ZACAMIL,
WHERE HEAVY FIGHTING IS UNDER WAY.  IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT THERE
HAVE BEEN CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN THIS ATTACK.  IT HAS ALSO BEEN
CONFIRMED THAT THE THREE ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS THAT WERE
DESTROYED IN ZACAMIL WERE DESTROYED ON THE STREET THAT JOINS THE
ZACAMIL NEIGHBORHOOD WITH THE METROPOLI NEIGHBORHOOD.

   IN ANOTHER REPORT FROM OUR COMPANEROS IN SOYAPANGO, THEY HAVE
INFORMED US THAT THEY HAVE SEEN A U.S. ADVISER LEADING THE TROOPS IN
THE SECTOR OF SOYAPANGO.  IT IS PRESUMED THAT THIS NORTH AMERICAN IS
THE ONE WHO IS DIRECTING THE AIR ATTACK IN THE SECTOR OF SOYAPANGO.
C-47 AIRPLANES AS WELL AS UH-1M, HUEY 500, AND UH-1H HELICOPTERS, ALL
U.S. MADE, HAVE BEEN THROWING ROCKETS ON AND MACHINEGUNNING THE
SECTORS OF SOYAPANGO AND CIUDAD DELGADO.  THE FASCIST REGIME OF LA
TANDONA (NAME GIVEN TO 1966 GRADUATES OF CAPTAIN GERARDO BARRIOS
MILITARY ACADEMY), CRISTIANI, AND D'AUBUISSON HAVE DECREED A
CURFEW IN ALL OF THE AREAS UNDER THE CONTROL OF OUR FORCES IN THE
NORTHERN PART OF SAN SALVADOR TO ENSURE THAT THERE ARE NO WITNESSES OF
THEIR INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING.  WE ISSUE AN URGENT CALL TO THE RED
CROSS AND OTHER HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS TO GO TO SOYAPANGO, WHERE
THERE HAVE BEEN DOZENS OF CIVILIAN CASUALTIES.  WE ALSO ISSUE AN
URGENT APPEAL TO THE DEMOCRATIC LATIN AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS SO THAT
THEY CAN (WORDS INDISTINCT) THE FASCIST GOVERNMENT OF ALFREDO
CRISTIANI, TO GET HIM TO STOP THIS INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING ONCE AND FOR
ALL.

   A REPORT FROM THE CAPITAL STATES THAT FMLN FORCES THIS AFTERNOON
ARE ATTACKING ZACAMIL BATTALION POSITIONS AND HARRASSING THE ARMED
FORCES' JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF.  ON THIS 4TH DAY OF FIGHTING IN THE
CAPITAL, ROADBLOCKS CONTINUE TO MULTIPLY THROUGHOUT.  THIS IS THE
SECOND ATTACK ON THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS.

   AS REPORTED ON THE EVENING OF 13 NOVEMBER, WE ATTACKED THE SAN
BENITO BATTALION AT THE NATIONAL FAIR GROUNDS AND THE FORCES GUARDING
THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF.  THIS IS THE SECOND HARRASSMENT ATTACK ON
THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF.  THIS COMPLICATES THE ARMED FORCES'
SITUATION IN THE CAPITAL BECAUSE THE ENEMY ARMED FORCES' TOP
LEADERSHIP IS BEING ATTACKED AND HARRASSED.  FMLN FORCES ARE
BESIEGING THE ENEMY.

   AIR FORCE AIRCRAFTS CONTINUE TO OVERFLY THE NORTHERN AREA OF THE
CAPITAL THIS AFTERNOON.  THEY CONTINUE TO MACHINEGUN AND BOMB THE
CIVILIAN POPULATION.  MOMENTS AGO, WE REPORTED THAT THERE WAS HEAVY
BOMBING IN ZACAMIL AGAINST THE POPULATION.  WE CALL ON THE
INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS COMMITTEE TO GO IMMEDIATELY TO ZACAMIL TO
EVACUATE CIVILIANS WHO MIGHT HAVE SURVIVED THESE COWARDLY AND BLOODY
AIR FORCE BOMBINGS.

WE HAVE A REPORT FROM
OUR COMMANDING POST IN SAN SALVADOR.  WE HAVE AN INTERVIEW WITH COMMANDER
CLAUDIO RABINDRANATH ARMIJO.  BECAUSE OF CERTAIN PROBLEMS WITH THE
COMMUNICATIONS, THE QUESTIONS WILL NOT BE CLEAR, BUT THE ANSWERS WILL BE.

   (REPORTER) COMMANDER CLAUDIO RABINDRANATH ARMIJO, WE ARE
INTERVIEWING YOU FROM RADIO VENCEREMOS HERE IN MORAZAN DEPARTMENT.  WE
HAVE HEARD REPORTS FROM CENTRAL AMERICAN RADIO STATIONS SPEAKING ABOUT
ROCKET FIRE AND BOMBINGS IN ZACAMIL NEIGHBORHOOD.  COULD YOU TELL US
ABOUT THE CURRENT SITUATION?

   (ARMIJO) WE HAVE BEEN HOLDING OUR POSITION FOR ABOUT 3 DAYS (WORDS
INDISTINCT).  CURRENTLY, THERE IS ROCKET AND MACHINEGUN FIRE BEING
LAUNCED AGAINST OUR POSITIONS.  THE ENEMY IS DESPERATE.  THIS MORNING
WE REPELLED AN ATTACK.  THEY FLED IN DISARRAY BECAUSE NO ONE CAME TO
SUPPORT THEM.

   (REPORTER) THE FASCIST DISINFORMATION NETWORK HAS BEEN SAYING THAT
THE PEOPLE ARE NOT SUPPORTING THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION
FRONT (FMLN).  WHAT IS THE PEOPLE'S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE FMLN FIGHTERS
IN ZACAMIL NEIGHBORHOOD?

   (ARMIJO) THEIR CONDUCT HAS BEEN POSITIVE.  THEY HAVE BEEN HELPING
US TREAT THE WOUNDED.  THEY HAVE HELPED US WITH FOOD PROBLEMS.  THEY
HAVE SUPPORTED US COMPLETELY BY PLACING BARRICADES ON THE STREETS.
THE PEOPLE'S SUPPORT IN THIS AREA IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT
THE ENEMY'S PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR IS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH.

   (REPORTER) WE HAVE RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM OUR COMRADES IN
SOYAPANGO WHO SAY THAT THEY HAVE SEEN A U.S. ADVISER LEADING ENEMY
TROOPS IN SAN SALVADOR.  HAVE ANY OF YOUR MEN SEEN ANY U.S.  ADVISERS?
(ARMIJO) (WORD INDISTINCT) NOT SEEN THEM, BUT (PASSAGE INDISTINCT).

   (REPORTER) WHAT IS THE MORALE OF THE FMLN TROOPS PARTICULARLY IN
THE ZACAMIL AREA?  THE FASCIST INFORMATION NETWORK HAS BEEN SAYING
THAT FMLN TROOPS ARE LEAVING THEIR POSTS.

   (ARMIJO) THEIR MORALE IS HIGH.  WE ARE ENCOURAGED BY THE PEOPLE'S
SUPPORT.  WE ARE VERY DETERMINED.  THE ENEMY'S ATTACKS HAVE BEEN
REPELLED.

   (REPORTER) COULD YOU SEND A MESSAGE TO FMLN TROOPS IN ZACAMIL
NEIGHBORHOOD AND TO THOSE IN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE
CAPITAL AS WELL AS TO FMLN FIGHTERS HOLDING THEIR POSITIONS IN OTHER
PARTS OF THE COUNTRY?

   (ARMIJO) THE PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY SUPPORTING US.  WE ARE WAGING ONE
OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BATTLES IN THE LAST FEW YEARS.  THE OUTLOOK FOR
VICTORY DEPENDS ON WHAT EACH OF US DOES.  WE MUST KEEP MOVING FORWARD.

   THIS HAS BEEN A RECORDED INTERVIEW.  WE INTERVIEWED COMMANDER
CLAUDIO RABINDRANATH ARMIJO A FEW MINUTES AGO.  HE IS CURRENTLY AT A
COMMAND POST IN SAN SALVADOR.

OFFICIALS REPORTED
THAT 220 TERRORISTS HAVE BEEN KILLED, 196 WOUNDED, AND 22 CAPTURED DURING THE
CLASHES THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE AREA OF THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS OUTSKIRTS.

   AMONG THE WAR MATERIEL CONFISCATED: A SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE, 140
HIGH-CALIBER RIFLES, 6 LAW ROCKET LAUNCHERS, AND MACHINEGUNS.

   AN ARMED FORCES PRESS COMMITTEE COPREFA SPOKESMAN STATED THAT THEY
WERE NOT AUTHORIZED TO RELEASE ANY OFFICIAL INFORMATION ON THE 11, 12,
AND 13 NOVEMBER EVENTS.

   MILITARY SOURCES WHO WERE QUESTIONED STATED THAT ACCORDING TO
INITIAL REPORTS--REPORTS WHICH ARE UNOFFICIAL AND COVER ONLY UP TO THE
AFTERNOON OF 13 NOVEMBER--RECEIVED FROM SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT AGAINST
THE EXTREMISTS POSITIONED AT THE EL SALVADOR UNIVERSITY, THE
TERRORISTS SUFFERED MORE THAN 400 CASUALTIES. THESE CASUALTIES WERE
DISTRIBUTED IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER: 220 KILLED, 196 WOUNDED, AND 22
CAPTURED.

   THE CONFISCATED WAR MATERIEL INCLUDED A SOVIET-MADE SURFACE-TO- AIR
MISSILE--CONSIDERED THE MOST IMPORTANT CATCH; 140 HIGH-CALIBER RIFLES
INCLUDING 74 AK-47 ASSAULT RIFLES, LAW ROCKET LAUNCHERS, 2 M- 79
GRENADE LAUNCHERS, 3 UZI MACHINEGUNS, 50 GRENADES, 2 DRAGUNOV RIFLES
FOR SNIPERS, AND 38 BLASTING CAPS, APPROXIMATELY 1000 M-16 CARTRIDGES;
AND 136 AK-47 CARTRIDGES.

   ALSO CONFISCATED WERE FOUR KNAPSACKS CONTAINING CLOTHING AND
COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA, FIVE TNT BLOCKS, TWO OLIVE-GREEN UNIFORMS, AND
MATERIAL TO MANUFACTURE EXPLOSIVES.

   OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT THE CONFISCATED SOVIET MISSILE WAS PART OF
A 15-MISSILE LOT THAT ENTERED SALVADORAN TERRITORY FROM NICARAGUA AND
THAT HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN STORED IN PERQUIN, MORAZAN DEPARTMENT.

   THE SOURCE ADDED THAT IT WAS A VERY SOPHISTICATED WEAPON AND THAT
ITS PRESENCE IN SALVADORAN TERRITORY CONFIRMS THAT ONCE AGAIN THE
SANDINIST GOVERNMENT HAS SUPPLIED WEAPONS TO THE FMLN (FARABUNDO MARTI
NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT). THE SANDINIST GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO
SUPPLY WEAPONS DESPITE THE PROMISE MADE BY PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA AT
TELA, HONDURAS THAT HIS REGIME WOULD NO LONGER SUPPLY WEAPONS TO THE
SALVADORAN TERRORIST GROUPS.

GOOD EVENING, SALVADORAN PEOPLE--IF I MAY
SAY, SO DESPITE THE CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING THE CAPITAL CITY. IT IS
REGRETTABLE AND INCONCEIVABLE THAT THE [[FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL
LIBERATION FRONT]1]2 ([[FMLN]1]2) SHOULD PERSIST WITH THE AGGRESSION IT HAS
UNLEASHED AGAINST OUR CAPITAL CITY AND SURROUNDING MUNICIPALITIES.
OUR POPULATION HAS SUFFERED THE MOST FROM THIS [[FMLN]1]2 AGGRESSION.

   THIS AGGRESSION, SALVADORAN FRIENDS, MUST BE SEEN AS AN ACT OF
DESPERATION BY THE [[FMLN]1]2, AS THIS IS THE ONLY WAY WE CAN EXPLAIN THEIR
IRRATIONAL ACTIONS. I HAVE USED THE WORD DESPERATION BECAUSE THE [[FMLN]1]2
KNOWS THAT IT IS OUT OF STYLE AND THAT ITS ATTITUDES ARE NO LONGER
ACCEPTED IN THE WORLD. WE CAN SEE IN EUROPE THAT COUNTRIES HAVE PASSED
FROM TOTALITARIAN REGIMES SUCH AS THE ONE THAT THE [[FMLN]1]2 WANTS TO
IMPLEMENT HERE, AND WALLS ARE OPEN FOR LIBERTY AND DEMOCRACY.

   WE ARE SURE THAT THIS IS WHAT THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE WANT: LIBERTY
AND DEMOCRACY. THAT IS WHY THEY HAVE NOT SUPPORTED AND WILL NEVER
SUPPORT THE [[FMLN]1]2 TERRORISTS WHO WANT TO SUBJECT THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE
TO TOTALITARIAN REGIMES, TO DICTATORSHIPS OF OPPRESSION, REPRESSION,
AND VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

   I WAS SAYING THAT THIS IS A DESPERATE ACT BECAUSE WE CANNOT SEE HOW
ANYONE WHO IS NOT DESPERATE COULD CAUSE SO MUCH HARM TO INNOCENT
PEOPLE AND TO THE CIVILIAN POPULATION. THERE ARE ALREADY MORE THAN 100
DEAD OR WOUNDED BECAUSE OF THE [[FMLN]1]2'S IRRATIONAL ACTIONS. OF COURSE,
TO THAT WE MUST ADD THAT THEY DESTROYED MANY HOMES WHICH THEY ENTERED
AND HAVE HELD FAMILIES AS HOSTAGES. THEY HAVE DAMAGED THE ELECTRICITY,
POTABLE WATER, AND TELEPHONE SYSTEMS, DEPRIVING THE POPULATION OF
THOSE ESSENTIAL SERVICES, NOT TO MENTION THE LACK OF FOOD AFFECTING
THE CIVILIAN POPULATION IN THE AREAS WHERE THEY ARE HOLDING HOSTAGES.

   IN ADDITION, IT IS APPROPRIATE TO SEE HOW FAR THE [[FMLN]1]2 TERRORISTS'
IRRATIONAL MINDS CAN GO, BECAUSE THEY HAVE CARRIED OUT ACTS OF
SAVAGERY THAT WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND. HOW CAN THERE STILL BE ANYONE LIKE
THE NICARAGUANS--AND I AM TALKING ABOUT THE NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT, OF
COURSE, NOT ALL NICARAGUANS--AND THE CUBANS, WHO SUPPORT SUCH ACTS OF
SAVAGERY.

   HOLDING CIVILIANS AS HOSTAGES, PUTTING THEM IN THE MIDDLE SO THAT
THEY WILL BE THE ONES WHO ARE HURT, AND SHIELDING THEMSELVES BEHIND
INNOCENT PEOPLE IS AN ACT OF SAVAGERY, SALVADORAN PEOPLE.

   TAKING OVER A CENTER FOR ORPHAN CHILDREN IN ORDER TO PROTECT
THEMSELVES BEHIND LITTLE CHILDREN WHO DO NOT HAVE A FATHER OR A MOTHER
IS AN ACT OF SAVAGERY, SALVADORAN PEOPLE.

   THEY EVEN DID SOMETHING WORSE AT THE ZACATECOLUCA [HOSPITAL]2 AND THE
PEOPLE WITNESSED THIS. WHEN THEY ENTERED THE [HOSPITAL]2 IN ZACATECOLUCA,
THEY MURDERED, AT GUNPOINT, A SOLDIER WHO WAS RECEIVING MEDICAL
ATTENTION; THEY PLACED [BOMBS]2 INSIDE THE [HOSPITAL]2 AND THEN FLED.

   SALVADORAN PEOPLE: THE [[FMLN]1]2 IS ALREADY A DESPERATE BEAST. THIS IS
 THE ONLY THING WE CAN SAY ABOUT SUCH IRRATIONAL MINDS. HOWEVER, WE
MUST REALIZE AND UNDERSTAND, AND ABOVE ALL, BE SURE THAT THE
MAJORITY OF OUR PEOPLE REPUDIATE THE [[FMLN]1]2 TERRORISTS.                    

   THE PEOPLE MUST KNOW THAT THEY CAN COUNT ON THEIR ARMED FORCES
WHICH HAVE ADVANCED SLOWLY, BUT SURELY. IT IS ADVANCING SLOWLY BECAUSE
IT WANTS TO FULLY PROTECT THE LIVES OF CIVILIANS. THE ARMED FORCES
COULD DRIVE THOSE TERRORISTS OUT OF WHERE THEY ARE; HOWEVER, THERE ARE
CIVILIANS THERE, AND WE WOULD NEVER WANT TO EXPOSE THOSE CIVILIANS TO
THE DANGER THE [[FMLN]1]2 IS TRYING TO LEAD THEM INTO.  THE ARMED FORCES
HAVE CONTINUED TO ADVANCE. THEY HAVE EFFECTIVELY ADVANCED, USING
PROFESSIONAL MEANS. FOR EXAMPLE, NEIGHBORHOODS SUCH AS BOSQUES DEL RIO
ARE TOTALLY CALM NOW, BECAUSE THE ARMED FORCES HAVE ALREADY ENTERED
AND FORCED THE TERRORISTS OUT. WE KNOW THAT ALL OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO
SEE AN END TO THIS TERROR THAT THE [[FMLN]1]2 WANTS TO CREATE. HOWEVER, WE
MUST ALSO UNDERSTAND, PARTICULARLY THOSE OF US WHO ARE NOT AS
ANGUISHED AT THIS MOMENT AS THOSE FAMILIES THAT HAVE BECOME [[FMLN]1]2
HOSTAGES. THEY TOO, DESERVE THAT WE DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO ACHIEVE
OUR OBJECTIVE; HOWEVER, WE MUST DO SO RESPECTING THE LIVES OF THOSE
INNOCENT PEOPLE. THE [[FMLN]1]2 FAILED TO ACHIEVE ITS OBJECTIVE.  (CONTINUED)

THE SALVADORAN ARMY
TODAY ATTACKED BY LAND AND AIR THE GUERRILLAS WHO EARLY THIS MORNING
OCCUPIED CIUDAD MERLIOT, A MIDDLE-CLASS RESIDENTIAL AREA IN
SOUTHWESTERN SAN SALVADOR.

   AN "A-37" SALVADORAN AIR FORCE PLANE FLEW OVER THE AREA AND STRAFED
CERTAIN POINTS, WHILE ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS WENT THROUGH THE
STREETS AND INFANTRY SOLDIERS CONFRONTED THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL
LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) GUERRILLAS.

   THE REBELS, WHO HAVE BEEN FIGHTING SINCE 11 NOVEMBER IN THE CAPITAL
CITY, TOOK POSITIONS IN CIUDAD MERLIOT VERY EARLY THIS MORNING AND
BURNED BUSES AND TRUCKS, AND THEN PLACED THE CHARRED VEHICLES AS
BARRICADES ON THE MAIN ENTRANCES TO THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS.

   THE GUERRILLAS ALSO CUT OFF ACCESS TO THE MAIN HIGHWAY JOINING SAN
SALVADOR TO SANTA ANA, THE SECOND MOST IMPORTANT CITY IN THE COUNTRY,
AND LA LIBERTAD PORT.

   AT LEAST FIVE ARMY ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS WERE CONTINUOUSLY
FIRING ON THE GUERRILLA POSITIONS IN CIUDAD MERLIOT.

   "GET AWAY.  THIS IS A PROHIBITED AREA.  THERE IS HEAVY SHOOTING
AGAINST THE GUERRILLAS," SHOUTED A SOLDIER FROM ONE OF THE ARMORED
PERSONNEL CARRIERS TO AN ACAN-EFE CORRESPONDENT WHO WAS MOMENTARILY
TRAPPED ON ONE OF THE MAIN STREETS OF THE RESIDENTIAL AREA.

   THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS ON 11 NOVEMBER BEGAN THE GREATEST
MILITARY OFFENSIVE OF THE LAST 10 YEARS, INFLICTING OVER 1,000
CASUALTIES, ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL SOURCES.

"ATTENTION, PAY CLOSE
ATTENTION.  WE CALL ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS, THE
DIPLOMATIC CORPS, BROTHER PEOPLES OF THE WORLD.  WE HAVE CONTACTED (FMLN
GUERRILLA COMMANDER) MARISOL GALINDO IN SAN MIGUEL CITY. SHE REPORTS THAT
RIGHT NOW COLONEL VARGAS IS FOLLOWING A SUICIDAL AND GENOCIDAL ATTITUDE AND
IS BOMBING THE CIVILIAN POPULATION IN SAN MIGUEL.

   "THERE ARE MANY DEAD AND WOUNDED DUE TO THE 500-LB BOMBS, THE
ROCKETS, AND THE STRAFING BY THE AIR FORCE IN THE NORTHERN AREA OF SAN
MIGUEL CITY.  BOMBS AND ROCKETS HAVE BEEN DROPPED IN THE CITY, KILLING
AND WOUNDING MANY PERSONS IN SAN MIGUEL CITY.

   "WE URGENTLY CALL ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS
TO IMMEDIATELY EVACUATE DOZENS OF WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND ELDERLY WHO
HAVE BEEN GRAVELY WOUNDED BY THIS IRRESPONSIBLE AND GENOCIDAL BOMBING
BY COL MAURICIO VARGAS, CHIEF OF THE 3D INFANTRY BRIGADE.  WE CALL ON
THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD SO THAT IMMEDIATELY THEY WILL DENOUNCE BEFORE
THE WORLD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SAN MIGUEL CITY.  SOMOZA'S BOMBING OF
THE NICARAGUAN PEOPLE IS ONE-THOUSAND TIMES WORSE IN EL SALVADOR."

THIS IS
A LAST-MINUTE REPORT.  THE SORIANO BATTALION HAS BEEN ATTACKED NEAR THE
ARENA (NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE) HEADQUARTERS.  AS A RESULT, SEVERAL
WERE KILLED AND WOUNDED.

   IT HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED THAT THE ATLACATL BATTALION WAS REPELLED
WEST OF DOLORES IN AYUTUXTEPEQUE THIS MORNING.  THE BATTALION THEN
WITHDREW. IN ADDITION, THE CUSCATANCINGO NATIONAL POLICE GARRISON IS
UNDER SIEGE.  WE REPEAT: OUR FORCES HAVE LAID SIEGE TO THE
CUSCATANCINGO POLICE GARRISON.  THE GUERRILLAS ARE ADVANCING.

   ACCORDING TO A REPORT, THE REBELS ARE HOLDING THEIR POSITIONS IN
AYUTUXTEPEQUE AND CIUDAD DELGADO.  NEW ROADBLOCKS WERE ERECTED
THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.  THE FRONTLINE HAS BEEN MOVING FORWARD
CONSTANTLY. OUR FORCES HAVE BEEN INCREASING THE AREAS UNDER THEIR
CONTROL IN SAN SALVADOR.  THE ARMED FORCES ARE IN A TIGHT POSITION
BECAUSE THE GUERRILLAS HAVE OCCUPIED THE SANTA TECLA - SAN SALVADOR
HIGHWAY.

WHEN ANSWERING A
QUESTION ON THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE SIX JESUITS AND TWO OTHER PERSONS
COULD HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY THE [MILITARY]1, SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO
CRISTIANI SAID TODAY THAT "IF THE ARMED FORCES PEOPLE DID IT, THE
WEIGHT OF THE LAW WILL FALL ALSO ON THEM."

   CRISTIANI "STRONGLY CONDEMNED" THE MULTIPLE MURDER THAT TOOK PLACE
EARLY THIS MORNING AND ATTRIBUTED IT TO "GROUPS OR MINDS THAT WANT TO
HINDER THE PROCESS OF DEMOCRACY AND PEACE THAT HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT IN
EL SALVADOR."

   THE PRESIDENT SAID HE WAS DETERMINED "TO INVESTIGATE THIS TO THE
VERY END, REGARDLESS OF WHO DID IT."

   HE EMPHASIZED THAT IT IS TOO EARLY "TO GIVE ANY OPINION" ON WHO
COULD HAVE COMMITTED THE MURDERS, POINTING OUT THAT THE FACT THE MEN
WHO DID IT WERE WEARING UNIFORMS AND WERE MOVING AT NIGHT DURING THE
STRICT CURFEW IN THE CITY "IS NOT CONCLUSIVE."

   CRISTIANI SAID THAT "THE ARMED FORCES AS WELL AS THE GUERRILLA
GROUPS MOVE DURING THE CURFEW HOURS."

   HE STATED THAT IN AGREEMENT WITH THE ARMED FORCES GENERAL STAFF,
WITH WHOM HE MET THIS MORNING TO DISCUSS THE ISSUE, HE HAS ORDERED AN
INVESTIGATION.

   THE SALVADORAN PRESIDENT DISCLOSED THE EXISTENCE OF "A POSSIBLE
WITNESS THAT HAS NOT BEEN INTERROGATED BY THOSE WHO ARE CARRYING OUT
THE INVESTIGATION" AND WHO HAVE FINGERPRINTS AND EMPTY CARTRIDGES OF
BULLETS FOR [AK-47S]1 AND [M-16S]1.

   CRISTIANI DISAVOWED VERSIONS REPORTED DURING THE DAY BY THE
GOVERNMENT RADIO NETWORK THAT CLAIM THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL
LIBERATION FRONT ([FMLN]1) GUERRILLAS COMMITTED THE MURDER.

   IN ANOTHER PART OF HIS NEWS CONFERENCE, THE SALVADORAN PRESIDENT
ADMITTED THAT WITHIN THE ARMED FORCES "THERE MIGHT GROUPS OF PERSONS
WHO DO NOT AGREE WITH THE GOVERNMENT," BUT HE ADDED THAT "AS AN
INSTITUTION, THEY ARE WITH THE GOVERNMENT."

FIGHTING CONTINUES TODAY IN SAN SALVADOR,
AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE TRIUMPHALIST TONE OF THE [SALVADORAN ARMY]1
BEGINS TO CHANGE.  AN AP CABLE WE RECEIVED THIS MORNING IN OUR
NEWSROOM SAYS THE FOLLOWING: THE ARMED FORCES HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THEY
HAVE SERIOUS PROBLEMS IN VARIOUS SUBURBS OF THIS CAPITAL.  THIS IS
WHAT THE AP CABLE SAYS TEXTUALLY IN ITS HEADLINE.

   IN ADDITION TO THIS SITUATION, THERE IS ANOTHER FACT IN THE
BATTLEFIELD TO WHICH THE NEWS AGENCIES HAVE NOT PAID MUCH ATTENTION,
WHICH IS ALSO A REFLECTION OF THE TYPE OF COMBAT THAT THE SALVADORAN
FORCES ARE FIGHTING.  AP ITSELF SAYS THE FOLLOWING: THE WAR BECAME
DIRTY WITH THE MURDER OF SIX JESUIT PRIESTS AND TWO WOMEN BY
UNIDENTIFIED TERRORISTS WHO ACTED DURING THE CURFEW.  FURTHERMORE, THE
CABLE SAYS THAT THE CANADIAN EMBASSY IN SAN SALVADOR REPORTED THAT 12
WORKERS FROM THE LUTHERAN CHURCH WERE ARRESTED BY UNIFORMED SECURITY
INDIVIDUALS IN DOWNTOWN SAN SALVADOR.  AT THE BEGINNING, THE CABLE
SAID THAT THE SIX PRIESTS HAD BEEN MURDERED BY UNIDENTIFIED
TERRORISTS.  LATER, THEY ARE IDENTIFIED AS [UNIFORMED INDIVIDUALS]1.

   AMONG THE PRIESTS MURDERED WAS FATHER [IGNACIO ELLACURIA]1, RECTOR OF
THE CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY AND DIRECTOR OF A MAGAZINE WHICH
REFLECTED THE PEOPLES' THOUGHTS, NOT ONLY IN EL SALVADOR BUT ALSO IN
THE REST OF CENTRAL AMERICA.  NONE OF THESE PRIESTS BELONGED TO THE
FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN).  FURTHERMORE,
ELLACURIA HIMSELF ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS EXPRESSED OPINIONS WHICH DID
NOT CONCUR WITH THOSE OF THE FMLN.  HOWEVER, HE FELT THAT A SOLUTION
TO THE SALVADORAN PROBLEM COULD NOT EXCLUDE THE PEOPLE'S INCLUSION OF
THE FMLN.  THE ASSASSINS WHO ACTED UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE CURFEW
ARE FROM THE [SALVADORAN ARMY]1, THEY ARE NOT UNIDENTIFIED TERRORISTS,
LIKE THE AP CABLE SAYS.  THEY ARE [ASSASSINS OF THE [SALVADORAN ARMY]1]1,
THE SAME ARMY WHICH HAS ALL THE SUPPORT OF THE U.S.  GOVERNMENT.  IN
THIS, WE CAN ALSO SEE THE DOUBLE STANDARD OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
ON THE ONE HAND, ALL ITS PUBLICITY APPARATUS SAYS TO THE WORLD THAT
WASHINGTON IS IN FAVOR OF DEMOCRACY AND RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.
HOWEVER, IN PRACTICE, IT SUPPORTS THE ASSASSINS OF PRIESTS AND
SUPPLIES BOMBS AND ROCKETS SO THAT THE [SALVADORAN ARMY]1 -- WHICH HAS
PLANES AND HELICOPTERS PROVIDED BY THE UNITED STATES -- CAN BOMB THE
SALVADORAN CIVILIAN POPULATION.

   THESE ARE THE FACTS.  THIS IS THE TRUTH THAT YANKEE PROPAGANDA IS
HIDING AND MANIPULATING.

THE
SALVADORAN OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE PEOPLE'S ORGANIZATIONS
TODAY PROPOSED THE CREATION OF A SALVATION JUNTA THAT WOULD INCLUDE
THE ARMY AND THE FMLN (FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT),
HUMBERTO CENTENO -- LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION NATIONAL UNION OF
SALVADORAN WORKERS (UNTS) -- HAS ANNOUNCED.  IN STATEMENTS TO IPS,
CENTENO SAID THE FMLN HAS ALREADY SAID IT IS WILLING TO JOIN THE
COUNTRY'S POLITICAL LIFE, AND THAT IT IS WILLING TO BE A PART OF A
SALVATION JUNTA AS A SOLUTION TO THE NATIONAL CRISIS.

   THE UNTS' PROPOSAL WAS SUPPORTED BY FIDEL CHAVEZ MENA, CHRISTIAN
DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDC) NATIONAL SECRETARY AND PRESIDENT OF THE LATIN
AMERICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION, IN STATEMENTS TO THE
PRESS.  CHAVEZ MENA, WHO WAS THE PDC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN THE
PAST ELECTIONS, SAID THAT ONE OF THE WAYS TO SOLVE THE CIVIL WAR
PROBLEM WOULD BE FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO RECTIFY ITS STAND AND INITIATE
NEW NEGOTIATIONS.  WE SHOULD ALL SIT DOWN TO FIND A SOLUTION, HE TOLD
NEWSMEN, ADDING THAT NEITHER SIDE WILL ACHIEVE A MILITARY VICTORY.

   MEANWHILE, CENTENO STATED THAT THE BOMBINGS IN DENSELY POPULATED
AREAS AND THE MURDER OF SIX JESUIT PRIESTS ARE FACTORS THAT ARE
WEARING OUT THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ARMED FORCES HIGH COMMAND.
ACCORDING TO THE LABOR LEADER, NONE OF THE SOCIAL FORCES WITH ANY
REPRESENTATIVE FORCE SUPPORT ALFREDO CRISTIANI AND HIS GOVERNMENT.

   ALTHOUGH THERE IS NOT A GENERAL CONSENSUS, THE POLITICAL AND LABOR
GROUPS HAVE SAID THEY ARE IN FAVOR OF A NEGOTIATED SOLUTION AND THE
RESUMPTION OF A DIALOGUE WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE OAS AND THE UNITED
NATIONS AS WELL AS THE CENTRAL AMERICAN PRESIDENTS AS GUARANTORS OF
THE AGREEMENTS.  HOWEVER, THE PETITION MIGHT NOT BE RECEIVED WELL BY A
GOVERNMENT THAT IS APPARENTLY NOT WILLING TO NEGOTIATE A CEASE-FIRE
WITH THE REBELS WHO CONTINUE OCCUPYING THE NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE
NORTHERN AREA OF THE CAPITAL CITY.

...GOVERNMENT AGAINST OUR
EMBASSY WORSENED.  THIS CAMPAIGN WAS INITIATED AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THE
SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT.  ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS OVER THE PAST 8 DAYS,
TELEVISION, PRESS, AND RADIO HAVE SYSTEMATICALLY BROADCAST STATEMENTS BY EL
SALVADOR'S TOP MILITARY AND POLITICAL AUTHORITIES, PRESIDENT CRISTIANI, VICE
PRESIDENT MERINO, AND THE HEAD OF ARENA (NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE),
ETC, BLAMING NICARAGUA FOR WHAT IS HAPPENING IN EL SALVADOR.

   THIS CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN SYSTEMATIC AND IT HAS ENCOURAGED TERRORIST
GROUPS TO THREATEN THE LIVES AND SAFETY OF NICARAGUA'S DIPLOMATIC
REPRESENTATIVES.  OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS, I HAVE RECEIVED MANY DEATH
THREATS FROM [EXTREMIST SECTORS]1 AND, I REPEAT, THIS LED THE NICARAGUAN
GOVERNMENT TO THE DECISION TO EVACUATE US.

   THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO
COUNTRIES ARE BROKEN.  IT IS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE TO ENSURE THE
ENTIRE MISSION'S PHYSICAL SAFETY.  WE REQUESTED DIPLOMATIC PROTECTION
FROM THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT AND RECEIVED A POSITIVE RESPONSE.  WE WENT
TODAY FROM THE RESIDENCE OF THE MEXICAN AMBASSADOR IN EL SALVADOR TO
THE AIRPORT, AND FROM THERE TO MANAGUA.

   IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I WILL BE GLAD TO ANSWER THEM.

   (REPORTER) A QUESTION FROM RADIO SANDINO.  FIRST OF ALL, SINCE YOU
GOT A FIRST- HAND VIEW, WHAT IS THE CURRENT SITUATION IN EL SALVADOR;
SECOND, IS THIS A PROVISIONAL MEASURE OR WILL IT BE EXTENDED; HOW LONG
WILL THIS MEASURE LAST?

   (LACAYO) I CANNOT SAY HOW LONG IT WILL LAST.  THAT IS UP TO THE
GOVERNMENT, AND IT WILL DEPEND ON THE INTERNAL SITUATION IN THE
COUNTRY.  REGARDING YOUR FIRST QUESTION, THE SITUATION IS DIFFICULT.
ON A MILITARY LEVEL, THE WAR CONTINUES; THERE IS A GOOD DEAL OF
MISINFORMATION BY THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT AND MANY INTERNATIONAL
NEWS AGENCIES.  THE TRUTH IS THAT THE BATTLE CONTINUES, THERE HAS BEEN
CONSIDERABLE PHYSICAL DESTRUCTION IN MANY TOWNS AND NEIGHBORHOODS ON
THE OUTSKIRTS OF SAN SALVADOR.  YOU KNOW WHICH TOWNS ARE INCLUDED:
ZACAMIL, CIUDAD DELGADO, SOYAPANGO, ETC. THIS IS THE RESULT OF THE
INDISCRIMINATE BOMBINGS BY THE SALVADORAN AIR FORCE.

   (REPORTER) THERE IS A REPORT THAT SOMOZIST GUARDS ARE FIGHTING WITH
THE SALVADORAN ARMY.  IS THERE ANYTHING TO THIS?

   (LACAYO) THERE ARE RUMORS TO THAT EFFECT.  SOME INSURGENT RADIO
STATIONS HAVE REPORTED IT, AND THEY HAVE ALSO MENTIONED TROOPS FROM
OTHER CENTRAL AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS.

   (REPORTER) (QUESTION INDISTINCT)

   (LACAYO) YES, BUT NOT WITH THE PERSISTENCE THAT PREVAILS NOW.

   (REPORTER) (QUESTION INDISTINCT)

   (LACAYO) OF COURSE.  MANY TELEPHONE CALLS, SURVEILLACE BY
SUSPICIOUS INDIVIDUALS AND VEHICLES AT THE RESIDENCE THROUGHOUT THE
DAY, AND ESPECIALLY DIRECT THREATS BY TELEPHONE.

   (REPORTER) (QUESTION INDISTINCT)

   (LACAYO) I WOULD IMAGINE THEY ARE [[SALVADORAN RIGHTWING EXTREMISTS]2]3,
BETTER KNOWN AS [[DEATH SQUADS]2]3.  THEY BEGAN TO SELECTIVELY SHOOT PEOPLE.
THERE IS THE CASE OF MRS [NORMA GIROLA DE HERRERA]2, PRESIDENT OF THE
WOMENS INSTITUTE, A VERY PROGRESSIVE INSTITUTION.  MRS HERERA WAS VERY
WELL KNOWN, AND SHE WAS MURDERED UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES VERY SIMILAR TO
THOSE OF THE ASSASINATION OF THE JESUITS; ON THE SAME DAY.

   (REPORTER) (QUESTION INDISTINCT)

   (LACAYO( I DO NOT HAVE ANY MORE INFORMATION BECAUSE OF THE CITY'S
MILITARIZATION.  A STATE OF SIEGE HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED, THE
CIRCULATION OF VEHICLES IS MINIMAL, COMMUNICATION IS SPARSE,
TELEPHONES ARE TAPPED.

   (REPORTER) (QUESTION INDISTINCT)

   (LACAYO) YES, THAT HAS BEEN PROVEN.

   (REPORTER) (QUESTION INDISTINCT)

   (LACAYO) THEY ARE WAGING A WAR WHICH CONSISTS AT TIMES OF
MAINTAINING POSITIONS, AT OTHER TIMES OF MOBILIZING.  ON SEVERAL
OCCASIONS CONTROLLED AREAS CEASED TO BE CONTROLLED BUT THE WAR
CONTINUES.

   (REPORTER) (QUESTION INDISTINCT)

   (LACAYO) NO, I DO NOT KNOW.  THE GOVERNMENT DID THAT DIRECTLY
THROUGH THE FOREIGN MINISTRY.

   (REPORTER) (QUESTION INDISTINCT)

   (LACAYO) NO, BECAUSE WE DID NOT KNOW.  HOWEVER, THE TRUTH IS THAT
WE NEVER HAD PROTECTION.  WE NEVER HAD POLICE PROTECTION AT THE
RESIDENCE ALTHOUGH IT WAS REQUESTED THROUGH THE FOREIGN MINISTRY.  THE
EMBASSY HAD TWO POLICEMEN, BUT DURING THIS PERIOD THEY LEFT AND THE
EMBASSY IS WITHOUT POLICE PROTECTION.

   (REPORTER) (QUESTION INDISTINCT)

   (LACAYO) THAT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS.

   (REPORTER) (QUESTION INDISTINCT)

   (LACAYO) AS A REPORT AND IN THE PRESS.

   (REPORTER) (QUESTION INDISTINCT) (CONTINUED)

THE ARMED FORCES OF
EL SALVADOR HEREBY REPORT TO THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE THE MILITARY SITUATION
THROUGHOUT THE NATIONAL TERRITORY.

   METROPOLITAN AREA: IN THE CAPITAL CITY, ARMY TROOPS CONTROL THE
AREAS OF CUSCATANCINGO AND MEJICANOS, PARTICULARLY THE ZACAMIL,
REGALADO, AND EL SOL NEIGHBORHOODS, WHERE THE ARMY IS CONSTANTLY
PATROLLING THE AREA TO PREVENT NEW SUBVERSIVE ATTACKS.  IN CIUDAD
DELGADO, ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL ARE FIGHTING SMALL GROUPS OF
EXTREMISTS WHO HAVE HIDDEN IN SEVERAL HOMES IN LOMAS DEL RIO AND SAN
SEBASTIAN NEIGHBORHOODS, WHERE THERE ARE STILL SOME TERRORISTS WHO
WILL BE EXPELLED IN A FEW HOURS.

   LIKEWISE, ARMY TROOPS ARE CONDUCTING COUNTERINSURGENCY OPERATIONS
IN GUADADALUPE, SUYAPA, AND LOS SANTOS NEIGHBORHOODS, SOYAPANGO
MUNICIPALITY, WHERE THERE WAS SOME FIGHTING YESTERDAY AND THIS
MORNING.  THE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES INFLICTED ON THE ENEMY IS NOT
AVAILABLE YET.  THE ARMY IS CONTROLLING THE SITUATION IN THE
AMATEPEC AND CIUDAD CREDISA NEIGHBORHOODS AND IN SANTA MARTA NO 2,
WHERE THERE STILL IS A SLIGHT PROBLEM.  AT NOON TODAY TROOPS FOUGHT
THE TERRORISTS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF MEJICANOS, BUT THERE ARE NO
REPORTS ON CASUALTIES YET.  THE REBELS ARE FLEEING THE SANTA MARTA
NEIGHBORHOOD AND OTHER NEARBY AREAS.

   WESTERN ZONE: THE 2D INFANTRY BRIGADE, TOGETHER WITH MILITARY
DETACHMENTS NO 6 AND NO 7, CONTROL THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY.
THIS INCLUDES SANTA ANA, SONSONATE, AND AHUACHAPAN DEPARTMENTS WHERE
THERE IS NO MAJOR PROBLEM.  THERE HAVE BEEN SOME CLASHES AND
ENCOUNTERS, BUT THESE HAVE BEEN UNIMPORTANT AND WITHOUT ANY SERIOUS
CONSEQUENCES FOR THE CIVILIAN AND MILITARY POPULATION.

   EASTERN ZONE: THE 3D INFANTRY BRIGADE, HEADQUARTERED IN SAN MIGUEL
CITY, REPORTED THIS MORNING THAT THEIR TROOPS WERE FIGHTING SMALL
REBEL GROUPS IN FRANCISCO GAVIRIA, 15 SEPTEMBER, EL MOLINO, AND LOPEZ
NEIGHBORHOODS.  BRIGADE OFFICERS SAID THEY EXPECT TO HAVE FULL CONTROL
IN A FEW HOURS.  THEY ALSO SAID THAT AT LEAST 15 REBELS WERE BURIED IN
COMMON GRAVES ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF SAN MIGUEL CITY, WHERE THEY WERE
ABANDONED BY THEIR COMRADES WHO YESTERDAY AFTERNOON BEGAN TO FLEE AS A
RESULT OF THE ARMY'S CONSTANT ACTIONS IN THAT AREA OF THE COUNTRY.
(CONTINUED)

COMRADE
SALVADOR SAMAYOA, WE HAVE HEARD REPORTS ON STATEMENTS BY THE U.S.
AMBASSADOR IN SAN SALVADOR, WILLIAM WALKER, WHO SAID THAT DESPITE THE
BOMBINGS HIS GOVERNMENT, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, WILL CONTINUE GIVING
MILITARY AID AND SUPPORT TO THE CRISTIANI GOVERNMENT.  HOWEVER, IT
SEEMS THE SITUATION HAS CHANGED FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION OF THE
JESUITS.  AT THIS MOMENT, HOW DOES THE UNITED STATES PERCEIVE THE NEW
SITUATION IN EL SALVADOR?

   (SAMAYOA) AT THE LEVEL OF THE U.S. PEOPLE, THERE IS A TOTAL
REPUDIATION OF THE FASCIST CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT AND OF THE SALVADORAN
ARMED FORCES BECAUSE OF THE BOMBINGS -- WHICH HAVE BECOME A TRUE
GENOCIDE -- IN VARIOUS DENSELY POPULATED CITIES AND NEIGHBORHOODS IN
EL SALVADOR, AS WELL AS BECAUSE OF THE ASSASSINATIONS PERPETRATED BY
THE [SALVADORAN ARMY]1 AGAINST THE JESUIT PRIESTS AT THE CENTRAL AMERICAN
UNIVERSITY (UCA).  THERE HAVE BEEN VERY RADICAL DEMONSTRATIONS
EXPRESSING MUCH INDIGNATION BY VARIOUS U.S. SOCIAL SECTORS.  MOREOVER,
IN SOME OF THOSE DEMONSTRATIONS, THE POLICE BARRICADES WERE BROKEN.
IMPORTANT U.S. POLITICAL PERSONALITIES SUCH AS JESSE JACKSON, ONE OF
THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS LEADERS IN THE UNITED STATES, PARTICIPATED IN THE
DEMONSTRATIONS.  THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN DEMONSTRATIONS IN BOSTON,
CHICAGO, NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, AND LOS ANGELES.  IN AT LEAST 20
CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES PEOPLE HAVE EXPRESSED ALL THEIR
REPUDIATION AND INDIGNATION OVER THE CRISTIANI GOVERNMENT AND THE U.S.
POLICY IN EL SALVADOR.

   SINCE THE ASSASSINATION OF THE UCA PRIESTS, A LARGE NUMBER OF
IMPORTANT U.S. SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES ARE SAYING THAT U.S.
MILITARY AID TO THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES AND GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE
CUT AND SUSPENDED.  SENATOR KENNEDY IN PARTICULAR MADE A VERY STRONG
STATEMENT, SAYING THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES' ATTITUDE SIMPLY
EXPRESSES THE FAILURE OF 10 YEARS OF U.S. POLICY -- WHICH HAS BEEN
SPENT FEEDING, TRAINING, ARMING, AND FINANCING AN ARMED FORCE THAT
CARRIES OUT ASSASSINATIONS.  IN ADDITION TO SENATOR KENNEDY, THERE ARE
MANY U.S. SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN WHO ARE REQUESTING THE TOTAL
SUSPENSION OF MILITARY AID TO EL SALVADOR.  AT THIS TIME, THE
CRISTIANI GOVERNMENT AND ARMED FORCES HAVE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF
REPUDIATION IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE PAST 10 YEARS.  HOWEVER, THE
U.S. GOVERNMENT, (WORDS INDISTINCT) THE STATE DEPARTMENT, AND THE
WHITE HOUSE CONTINUE SUPPORTING THE (SALVADORAN) CRIMINAL
REGIME AND GIVING IT FURTHER EMERGENCY AID.

   (REPORTER) COMRADE, YESTERDAY WE LEARNED ABOUT ARTICLES PUBLISHED
IN THE MAIN U.S. NEWSPAPERS THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE WASHINGTON
POST, WHICH STRONGLY QUESTION THE GOVERNMENT, SPECIFICALLY PRESIDENT
CRISTIANI, THE CHIEF OF THE FASCIST DICTATORSHIP.  WHAT IS THE
SITUATION OF THE CRISTIANI SPEECH AND HIS ALLEGED LEGITIMACY, NOT ONLY
IN THE UNITED STATES BUT ALSO AT THE LEVEL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY?

   (SAMAYOA) THE ALLEGED LEGITIMACY OF CRISTIANI COLLAPSED.  IN THE
UNITED STATES, THEY SAID CRISTIANI WAS (WORDS INDISTINCT) HAD GOOD
INTENTIONS, BUT THE RIGHT-WING (WORDS INDISTINCT) AND THE DEATH SQUADS
DID NOT LET HIM WORK.  THE SPEECH FAILED BECAUSE IT IS NOW CLEAR THAT
AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES, CRISTIANI IS RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE GENOCIDE IN SAN SALVADOR AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS IN THE COUNTRY
(WORDS INDISTINCT).  THE MEDIA HAVE ALSO REPORTED THE ARREST OF U.S.
RELIGIOUS MEN AND OF SWISS, FRENCH, SPANISH, AND JAPANESE CITIZENS.
THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT IS A GOVERNMENT ACCUSING EVERYONE OF
COOPERATING WITH THE GUERRILLAS, AND THIS HAS CAUSED A TOTAL LOSS OF
THE GOVERNMENT'S PRESTIGE. EDITORIALS ON 18 NOVEMBER IN THE MAIN U.S.
NEWSPAPERS (WORDS INDISTINCT) CRISTIANI IS NOT MORE THAN (WORDS
INDISTINCT). AT EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES IN MOST COUNTRIES IN WESTERN
EUROPE -- IN ITALY, SPAIN, THE FRG, FRANCE, SWEDEN, DENMARK AND
EVERYWHERE -- THERE HAVE BEEN DEMONSTRATIONS CALLED BY LABOR UNIONS,
POLITICAL PARTIES, AND PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS IN THOSE COUNTRIES TO
EXPRESS REPUDIATION.  IN LONDON, ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS HUMAN
RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, URGED EVERYONE TO STAGE
DEMONSTRATIONS IN FRONT OF ALL SALVADORAN EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES.
(CONTINUED)

THE
GUERRILLA OFFENSIVE HAS NOT BEEN DEFEATED AND CANNOT BE DEFEATED.
INTERNATIONAL REPORTS INDICATE THAT THE REVOLUTIONARY FORCES HAVE
BECOME STRONG IN THE CITY, THAT THEY ARE MAKING TACTICAL MOVEMENTS,
AND THAT IN SPITE OF THE BARBARISM WITH WHICH THE ARMED FORCES HAS
BEEN OPERATING, THE GUERRILLAS MAINTAIN ALL OF THEIR OPERATIONAL
CAPABILITIES.

   THE SITUATION CANNOT DEFEAT US.  THERE MUST BE A SOLUTION, AND THE
SALVADORAN PEOPLE ARE INCREASINGLY, AND IN DIFFERENT WAYS, BECOMING
INVOLVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS TO DEFEAT THE FASCISTS AND THE
GENOCIDAL TACTICS THEY ARE USING.

   WE BELIEVE THAT WHAT IS HAPPENING IS HAVING AN IMPACT ON
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION, AND THIS UNDOUBTEDLY WILL HAVE AN EFFECT
ON THE ARMED FORCES AND COULD RESULT IN AN EFFORT TO SAVE THE
INSTITUTION.

   WE BELIEVE THAT IN THE ARMED FORCES THERE ARE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS
WHO REJECT FASCISM.  THERE HAVE BEEN MANY DESERTIONS IN THE ARMY
FILES.  MANY ORDERS ARE BEING DISOBEYED, ORDERS OF A GENOCIDAL NATURE
USUALLY.  THIS IS THE STARTING POINT OF AN EVENT THAT WILL STUN
POLITICAL OPINION IN EL SALVADOR.

   WE BELIEVE THAT IF THIS SAVAGE KILLING OF PEOPLE DOES NOT STOP, THE
MILITARY INSTITUTION WILL BE SIGNING ITS OWN DEATH SENTENCE.  THE
PEOPLE CANNOT TOLERATE A MILITARY THAT FUNCTIONS UNDER A MOST SAVAGE
AND DESPOTIC REGIME, AND THE CRISTIANI GOVERNMENT IS IN HOT WATER, WE
COULD SAY.

   THE REVOLUTIONARY OFFENSIVE, AS I HAVE NOTED, IS BEING DEVELOPED.
WE HAVE SOLID POSITIONS IN FOUR OF EL SALVADOR'S MAIN CITIES, AND AS
WE HAVE SAID BEFORE: NO ONE IS GOING TO PUSH US OUT.  VICTORY FOR
DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN ASSURED.  THE WORLD WILL BACK US IN THE FACE OF THE
SAVAGE GENOCIDE BY THE GOVERNMENT FORCES, ESPECIALLY BY THE FASCIST
MILITARY ELEMENTS IN EL SALVADOR.

   (REPORTER) TO CONCLUDE, COMMANDER, THE FUNERAL RITES FOR THE THE
PRIESTS WHO WERE MURDERED IN SAN SALVADOR ARE TAKING PLACE AT THIS
MOMENT, AROUND NOON TIME, AND ALFREDO CRISTIANI AND HIS WIFE ARE
ATTENDING THIS CEREMONY.  DO YOU HAVE ANY MESSAGE FOR THE SALVADORAN
PEOPLE, FOR THE STUDENTS FROM THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, FOR THE
CHRISTIAN PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE IN GENERAL, WHO ARE MOURNING THE
DEATH OF THESE WORTHY JESUITS?

   (ROCA) WE HAVE ALREADY EXPRESSED, AND I WILL REITERATE IT NOW, THE
DEEP SORROW OF THE FMLN MILITANTS AND THE PEOPLE IN GENERAL OVER THE
LOSS OF THESE WORTHY JESUIT PRIESTS WHO HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT
STRUGGLERS FOR DEMOCRACY AND PEACE IN EL SALVADOR.  WE SHARE THE
FEELINGS OF THE SALVADORAN RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY.

   I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT THE PRESENCE OF CRISTIANI AT THE BURIAL
FOR THE JESUIT PRIESTS CALLS FOR A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL OUTCRY
IN DEMAND FOR PUNISHMENT FOR THE PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS
ATROCIOUS ASSASSINATION.

   CRISTIANI CANNOT GO TO THAT BURIAL AND DO NOTHING ABOUT PEOPLE TO
WHOM HE OPENED DOORS SO THAT THEY COULD COMMIT THESE KILLINGS.
EVERYBODY MUST DEMAND THAT CRISTIANI RESPOND TO THE PEOPLE'S
INDIGNATION BY PUNISHING THE PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CRIME.
CRISTIANI CANNOT SPEAK ABOUT HAVING MORAL AUTHORITY FOR ATTENDING THAT
BURIAL UNLESS HE PUNISHES THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE.  IT IS NOT
ENOUGH TO PUNISH THE ASSASSINS.  THERE MUST BE A THOROUGH
INVESTIGATION OF THE WAVE OF CRIME THAT HAS BEEN UNLEASHED IN EL
SALVADOR.  THE MOST NOTORIOUS CRIME HAS BEEN THE KILLING OF THE JESUIT
PRIESTS, BUT IN THE PAST 8 DAYS MANY COMMON PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY
LEADERS HAVE ALSO BEEN MURDERED.  THE BOMBING HAS BEEN INTENSE.  THE
SALVADORAN PEOPLE ARE ENDURING MUCH PAIN AND THEY DEMAND THAT THE
PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT BE PUNISHED.

   WE AGAIN REITERATE THE PAIN OF THE PEOPLE OVER THE DEATH OF THE
JESUIT PRIESTS.  WE BELIEVE THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH MUST BRAVELY AND
LOUDLY DEMAND JUSTICE IN THE FACE OF THESE CRIMES.

FIFTY-FIVE SPANIARDS
WERE EVACUATED FROM EL SALVADOR TODAY FOR SECURITY REASONS IN AN AIR
FORCE PLANE WHICH LEFT THE COUNTRY AT 1545 (2145 GMT) FROM THE
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT COMALAPA.

   SPANISH DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER INOCENCIO ARIAS WAS ON BOARD THE
PLANE.

   THE AIRPLANE'S DEPARTURE WAS DELAYED TO WAIT FOR ARIAS AND OTHER
SPANISH OFFICIALS TO ARRIVE AT THE AIRPORT AFTER ATTENDING THE FUNERAL
OF SIX JESUIT PRIESTS, FIVE OF THEM SPANIARDS, WHO WERE KILLED ON
THURSDAY.

EDUARDO COLORADO,
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF EL SALVADOR, STATED TODAY THAT THERE IS A PLAN,
POSSIBLY PREPARED BY THE [GUERRILLAS]2, TO ATTACK SALVADORAN BISHOPS AND
"CREATE GREATER PROBLEMS FOR THE GOVERNMENT" OF ALFREDO CRISTIANI.

   IN A NEWS CONFERENCE, THE OFFICIAL SAID THAT "IT WOULD BE ADVISABLE
FOR THE BISHOPS TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY OR NOT APPEAR IN PUBLIC."

   COLORADO, WHO DID NOT WANT WANT TO PROVIDE FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT
THE ALLEGED PLAN, SAID THAT THE MAIN TARGET MIGHT BE MSGR [GREGORIO
ROSA CHAVEZ]2, AUXILIARY BISHOP OF SAN SALVADOR, SINCE SEVERAL OF HIS
RELATIVES ARE [GUERRILLAS]2.

   THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DID NOT RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT PERSONS
WHO HAVE LOST RELATIVES IN THE WAR "MIGHT CARRY OUT THE PLAN" THAT
"MIGHT BE ORGANIZED BY THE [TERRORISTS]2 TO CREATE A GREATER CRISES FOR
THE GOVERNMENT."

   THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SAID HE SENT A LETTER TO POPE JOHN PAUL II
ASKING HIM TO REMOVE FROM THE COUNTRY THE BISHOPS WHO REPORTEDLY
SUPPORT THE SO-CALLED "PEOPLE'S CHURCH."  ACCORDING TO COLORADO, THIS
"PEOPLE'S CHURCH" IS RESPONSIBLE IN PART FOR THE VIOLENCE IN THE
COUNTRY.

   HE DID NOT SPECIFY WHICH BISHOPS ARE MENTIONED IN THE LETTER SENT
TO THE POPE, BUT VARIOUS SOURCES INSIST HE IS REFERRING TO ARCHBISHOP
[ARTURO RIVERA Y DAMAS]2 AND AUXILIARY BISHOP ROSA CHAVEZ, WHO SUPPORT A
POLITICAL SOLUTION TO THE CONFLICT IN THE COUNTRY.

   IN THE LETTER, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SUGGESTS THAT POPE JOHN PAUL II
REMOVE THESE SALVADORAN BISHOPS SINCE, HE INSISTS, "IT IS 1,000 TIMES
BETTER TO PREVENT THESE INCIDENTS THAN TO HAVE TO INVESTIGATE THEM."

   THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S LETTER TO THE POPE WAS SENT 2 DAYS AFTER SIX
JESUITS (FIVE SPANIARDS AND ONE SALVADORAN) AND TWO WOMEN WERE KILLED
IN SAN SALVADOR BY A GROUP OF 30 TO 40 [MEN WEARING [MILITARY]1 UNIFORMS]1,
ACCORDING TO WITNESSES.

A FRIEND OF
THE JESUIT PRIESTS, THE FIRST TO ARRIVE ON THE SCENE, SAID THAT HE
COUNTED SOME 500 OR 600 BULLET HOLES.  HE SAID THAT THESE SHOTS WERE
FIRED FROM SOME DISTANCE, WITH A MACHINEGUN SET UP ON A TRIPOD.  THE
PRIESTS WERE ALSO LATER SHOT IN A GARDEN NEARBY.  ACCORDING TO
INFORMATION THAT THE SOCIETY OF JESUS RECEIVED FOLLOWING THEIR OWN
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CRIME, WHICH THEY HAVE RELEASED TO THE
AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATING THE CASE, THE KILLERS, APPROXIMATELY 30 [[MEN
IN UNIFORM]1]2, ARRIVED SHORTLY BEFORE 0230.  THEY MACHINEGUNNED THE HOUSE
BEFORE ENTERING, DRAGGED THE PRIESTS OUT, PUT THEM IN FRONT OF A WALL
THAT IS STILL STAINED WITH BLOOD, AND SHOT THEM.  THE PRIESTS WERE
ALSO SHOT IN THE HEAD WITH A [LONG-RANGE WEAPON]1; HOWEVER, THESE SHOTS
WERE FIRED FROM SOME DISTANCE.  A LAWYER, HELPING IN THE INVESTIGATION
OF THIS CASE AND WHO HAS ASKED TO REMAIN UNIDENTIFIED, SAID THAT THIS
WAS DETERMINED BECAUSE THERE WERE NO GUNPOWDER MARKS ON THE VICTIMS.

   AT THE TIME THE CRIME WAS CARRIED OUT, A CURFEW WAS BEING OBSERVED
THROUGHOUT THE CITY.  (WORDS INDISTINCT) AND THE HOUSE WHERE THE
PRIESTS LIVED WAS SURROUNDED BY [[SOLDIERS]1]2.  TOGETHER WITH THIS
INFORMATION, GATHERED BY SEVERAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROMINENT PERSONS TO
PROVE THAT THE MURDER WAS CARRIED OUT BY [[SOLDIERS]1]2, WE MUST STRESS THAT
THE HOUSE WAS ALSO SEARCHED BY THE [[SOLDIERS]1]2 2 DAYS BEFORE THE CRIME
WAS COMMITTED.  A JESUIT PRIEST WHO WAS DESCRIBING THE SCENE SAID THAT
ONLY THE AREA PREVIOUSLY SEARCHED BY THE [[SOLDIERS]1]2 WAS DESTROYED.  HE
SAID THAT THE [LIBRARY]2 WAS BURNED AND THE ROOMS HAD BEEN RANSACKED.
ACCORDING TO THE PRIEST, $5,000 THAT FATHER IGNACIO ELLACURIA HAD
RECEIVED IN BARCELONA -- PART OF AN AWARD GIVEN THE UNIVERSITY -- WERE
TAKEN FROM ONE OF THE ROOMS.

   THE USE OF [[LONG-RANGE WEAPON]1S]1 WOULD ALSO EXPLAIN WHY THE BRAINS OF
THE DEAD WERE SCATTERED ABOUT.  THIS WAS SEEN BY THE FIRST PERSONS WHO
ARRIVED ON THE SCENE.  OTHERS SAID THAT THE BODIES WERE DESTROYED
BECAUSE [AK-47 AND M-16 ASSAULT RIFLES]1 WERE USED IN THE ATTACK.  THE
BODIES WERE SO UTTERLY DESTROYED THAT EMBALMING WAS NOT POSSIBLE.
THIS WAS REPORTED TO ACAN-EFE BY SOCIETY OF JESUS SUPERIOR JOSE MARIA
TOJEIRA.

   REGARDING THE TWO MURDERED WOMEN, THE COOK [ELBA JULIA RAMOS]1 AND HER
15-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER [MARISELA]1, ALL INDICATES THAT THEY WERE
MACHINEGUNNED IN THE SMALL ROOM WHERE THEY SLEPT. THERE WAS SO MUCH
BLOOD THAT IT SEEPED UNDER THE DOOR, AND A VERTEBRA AND PIECES OF A
SKULL CAN STILL BE SEEN UNDER A SOFA IN THE SMALL ROOM.  THE
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS SEEM TO INDICATE THAT THE VICTIMS WERE NOT
TORTURED AS EARLIER REPORTS HAD STATED.

   MEANWHILE, SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI REPORTEDLY SAID
YESTERDAY THAT THE [[ARMED FORCES]1]2 HIGH COMMAND HAS NOT RULED OUT THE
POSSIBILITY THAT THE KILLERS OF THE SIX JESUIT PRIESTS COULD HAVE BEEN
[[SOLDIERS]1]2.  THEY HAVE NOT RULED OUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT [[SOLDIERS]1]2 COULD
HAVE KILLED THE PRIESTS, AND THEY ARE DETERMINED TO INVESTIGATE THE
INCIDENT AND PUNISH THE RESPONSIBLE PARTIES.  THIS WAS SAID BY THE
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT IN STATEMENTS TO ACAN-EFE AND OTHER FOREIGN NEWS
AGENCIES.  CRISTIANI, WHO INSISTED ON THE NEED TO AVOID UNFOUNDED
CONCLUSIONS, ADDED THAT THE [[MILITARY]1]2 DOES NOT THINK IT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY SOMETHING DONE BY INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTION.

   WE CAN CLEARLY SEE NOW THAT THERE ARE SOME CONTRADICTIONS.  AT THIS
MOMENT THERE ARE THREE POSITIONS.  THERE IS THE POSITION OF U.S.
AMBASSADOR WILLIAM WALKER -- HE IS LIKE AN OSTRICH WITH ITS HEAD
BURIED IN THE SAND.  THERE IS PROOF THAT RULES OUT ALL DOUBT.  HOW CAN
40 [[MEN IN UNIFORM]1]2 BE IN A MILITARIZED AREA FOR 60 MINUTES AND NOT HEAR
SHOTS BEING FIRED AND BOMBS EXPLODING?  WHY DID THE [[ARMY]1]2 NOT SEND IN
TROOPS TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED ONLY A FEW BLOCKS FROM COLONEL RENE
EMILIO PONCE'S OFFICE?  THE 40 MEN WERE IN THE AREA FOR A WHOLE HOUR.
THEY HAD ALREADY SEARCHED FATHER ELLACURIA'S HOME.

   OUR QUESTION FOR WILLIAM WALKER: IF THIS WAS NOT DONE BY THE [[ARMED
FORCES]1]2, THEN WHY WERE THEY THERE SEARCHING THE PREMISES FOR A WHOLE
HOUR AND EVEN STEALING $5,000?  THEY SEARCHED DRAWER BY DRAWER.  THE
DISORDER THEY LEFT BEHIND WAS QUITE EVIDENT IN THE CLIPS SHOWN ON
TELEVISION.  THEY SEARCHED THE AREA FOR AN HOUR TO SEE WHAT THEY, THE
MURDERERS, COULD FIND TO STEAL.  HOWEVER, AMBASSADOR WILLIAM WALKER
SAYS THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW IF THE [[ARMY]1]2 COMMITTED THE CRIME.  (CONTINUED)

AS WE SAID EARLIER, THERE ARE THREE POSITIONS.  THIS
PROVES THAT THERE ARE CONTRADICTIONS SURROUNDING THIS CASE.  THERE IS
WILLIAM WALKER, ACTING LIKE AN OSTRICH WITH HIS HEAD STUCK IN THE
GROUND.  AND THERE IS CRISTIANI'S POSITION -- THE DEATH SQUAD MEMBER
WHO WEARS A TIE, WHO (WORDS INDISTINCT) AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY (WORDS INDISTINCT), AND WHO SAID THAT RASH JUDGMENT SHOULD
NOT BE PASSED AND THAT NO ONE SHOULD BE IN A HURRY TO ACCUSE THE
GOVERNMENT OR ANYONE ELSE.  AND THERE IS ALSO THE GENERAL STAFF AND
DEFENSE MINISTRY POSITION BLAMING THE [FMLN]1.  WHY?  IF IT IS TRUE THAT
THERE IS A CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT IN EL SALVADOR, THEN WHY CAN THE
DEFENSE MINISTER APPEAR BEFORE THE TELEVISION CAMERAS CONTRADICTING
CRISTIANI, GOING AGAINST WHAT CRISTIANI HAD SAID?  WHO GIVES THE
ORDERS HERE, LARIOS OR CRISTIANI?  IF CRISTIANI GIVES THE ORDERS, THEN
THE DEFENSE MINISTER MUST OBEY CRISTIANI AND REFRAIN FROM MAKING
ACCUSATIONS BEFORE A SERIOUS INVESTIGATION IS HELD.  HOWEVER, THIS IS
NOT THE CASE.

   THIS FURTHER PROVES WHAT WE HAVE BEEN SAYING.  THE CIVILIAN MASK
FELL ON SATURDAY.  THE DEFENSE MINISTRY HOLDS THE REAL POWER IN THE
COUNTRY.  THE DEFENSE MINISTRY CENSORS THE PRESS.  THE SOLDIERS ARE
THE ONES CENSORING THE TELEVISION STATIONS, AND NOT THE ARENA
(NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE) FOLLOWERS OR OTHER
CIVILIANS.  THE GENERAL STAFF, THE SOLDIERS, ARE GAGGING THE PRESS,
IMPOSING THE STATE OF SIEGE, GIVING THE FINAL ORDERS.  IT IS IMPORTANT
TO LOOK INTO THIS CLOSELY BECAUSE GEN LARIOS, IN AN EMPTY SPEECH -- WE
HEARD HIM DELIVER A RHETORICAL AND EMPTY SPEECH -- ACCUSED THE [FMLN]1 OF
KILLING THE PRIESTS AND SAID THAT THE ARMY CONTROLS THE COUNTRY.  WE
POINT OUT THESE CONTRADICTIONS (WORDS INDISTINCT).

   BY SAYING THAT THEY DID NOT DO IT, THAT THE [ARMED FORCES]1 DID NOT DO
IT, THE DEFENSE MINISTER ADMITTED THAT HE DID IT, THAT HE IS ONE OF
THE KILLERS.  THAT IS WHAT GEN LARIOS IS SAYING, THAT IS WHAT HE SAID
IN HIS PUBLIC STATEMENT.  (WORDS INDISTINCT) NO DOUBT, AND THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HAS (WORDS INDISTINCT).  WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN
THE GOVERNMENT'S INVESTIGATIONS BECAUSE WE HAVE PAST EXAMPLES OF IT.
WE HAVE MONSIGNOR ROMERO'S CASE AND WE HAVE THE CASE OF THE
REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATIC FRONT LEADERS, WHO, A FEW YEARS AGO, WERE
ARRESTED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT DURING A POLICE OPERATION.  HOWEVER, NOT A
SINGLE SOLDIER HAS BEEN PUNISHED.  WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN CRISTIANI'S
JUSTICE.  THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS PUTTING ON THE PRESSURE AND
CRISTIANI WILL HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.  HE WILL PROBABLY PUT UP SOME
ACT.  THE U.S.  CONGRESS ALSO HAS ITS EYES ON EL SALVADOR.  THEY ARE
DEBATING THE ISSUE OF AID TO EL SALVADOR.  THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE THE
U.S.  CONGRESS MUST THINK ABOUT.  THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE SAID
THAT IT IS PLEASED WITH THE WAY CRISTIANI ACTED IN THE FACE OF THE
[FMLN]1 OFFENSIVE.  THIS MEANS THAT THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE HAS
APPROVED THE DROPPING OF WHITE PHOSPHORUS OVER ZACAMIL AND THE
DESTRUCTION OF 500 HOMES.  THIS MEANS THAT THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
STATE HAS APPROVED THE KILLING OF THE JESUIT PRIESTS, AND ALSO THE
MASSACRE OF SEVERAL SALVADORAN CITIZENS WHO WERE TAKEN FROM THEIR
HOMES AND KILLED ON THE SAME BLACK NIGHT WHEN THE JESUIT PRIESTS WERE
KILLED.

A DISPATCH FROM THE
CAPITAL REACHING OUR STATION AT 0715 (1315 GMT) THIS MORNING STATES: AT THIS
MOMENT, 0715, FIGHTING HAS INTENSIFIED IN THE VICINITY OF THE SHERATON
HOTEL, AS WELL AS IN THE ZONA ROSA.  POLICE PATROLS ARE BEING AMBUSHED IN
SAN BENITO AND ESCALON NEIGHBORHOOD, WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVE RESIDENTIAL
DISTRICTS OF THE HIHG ARMY COMMAND AND THE OLIGARCHY.  FIERCE FIGHTING IS
TAKING PLACE IN THE CAPITAL, ACCORDING TO REPORTS REACHING OUR STATION AT
0715 THIS MORNING.

WE BRIEFLY
INTERRUPT OUR SCHEDULED PROGRAM TO BRING YOU A LAST MINUTE REPORT.

   ACCORDING TO AFP, RELIABLE EYEWITNESSES HAVE REPORTED THAT THE
[SALVADORAN [GUERRILLAS]1]1 THIS MORNING OCCUPIED THE SHERATON HOTEL LOCATED
IN ESCALON NEIGHBORHOOD, NORTHEASTERN SAN SALVADOR. OAS SECRETARY
GENERAL JOAO BAENA SOARES IS CURRENTLY STAYING AT THE SHERATON HOTEL.
[FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT]1 ([FMLN]1) [REBELS]1 REPORTEDLY
POSITIONED THEMSELVES ON THE ROOF OF THE HOTEL WHERE SECRETARY GENERAL
BAENA SOARES IS STAYING SHORTLY BEFORE 0830 (1430 GMT).  ACCORDING TO
A RELIABLE SOURCE, AT 0830 THE [REBELS]1 HAD NOT CAPTURED BAENA SOARES.
THE SOURCE ADDED THAT BAENA SOARES' PERSONAL BODYGUARDS WERE KILLED IN
THE CLASHES THAT CONTINUE AROUND THE HOTEL.  IT WAS ALSO LEARNED THAT
HELICOPTERS WERE BOMBING THE ESCALON NEIGHBORHOOD, WHERE THE [REBELS]1
RAISED BARRICADES EARLY THIS MORNING WITH THE APPARENT INTENTION OF
ISOLATING THE AREA.

   AN UNIDENTIFIED AND NERVOUS- SOUNDING PERSON, WHO MANNED THE
SHERATON HOTEL SWITCHBOARD EARLY THIS MORNING, TOLD A REPORTER THAT HE
COULD NOT TRANSFER ANY CALLS AND HUNG UP ABRUPTLY.  SINCE 0630 (1230
GMT), THE TELEPHONES AT THE SHERATON HOTEL ARE NOT BEING ANSWERED.

THE ARMED FORCES HAS FOILED THE
TERRORIST ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP THE OAS SECRETARY GENERAL IN THIS CAPITAL.
SPECIALIZED ARMY TROOPS THIS MORNING FOILED AN ATTEMPT BY THE [[FMLN]1]2
[[[[TERRORIST GROUP]1]2S]1]2 TO KIDNAP OAS SECRETARY GENERAL [JOAO CLEMENTE BAENA
SOARES]1, WHO WAS STAYING AT THE EL SALVADOR SHERATON HOTEL, IN THE
ESCALON NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE CAPITAL.

   TROOPS OF THE BRACAMONTE BATTALION AND THE CAVALRY REGIMENT,
SUPPORTED BY THE AIR FORCE, SURROUNDED THE AREA WHILE TWO GROUPS OF
SPECIALLY TRAINED UNITS ENTERED THE HOTEL.  THE FIRST GROUP PROVIDED
MAXIMUM PROTECTION TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS OAS SECRETARY GENERAL, WHILE THE
SECOND GROUP OVERPOWERED THE GROUP OF [[EXTREMISTS]1]2 WHO HAD ENTERED THE
HOTEL LOBBY WITH THE INTENTION OF KIDNAPPING BAENA SOARES.

   THE TROOPS ARE CURRENTLY CLEANING UP THE SMALL DIVERSIONARY
OPERATIONS OF THE TERRORISTS IN THE VICINITY OF THE CLUB CAMPESTRE AT
THE END OF GENERAL ESCALON DRIVE, CLOSE TO THE WAREHOUSES OF THE
CENTRAL ELECTORAL COUNCIL AND THE EXTENSION OF 75TH AVENUE NORTH.

   AT THE PRESENT TIME, IN A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO SAVE THEIR LIVES DUE
TO THE SPEEDY REACTION OF THE ARMED FORCES, THE [[TERRORIST GROUP]1]2 THAT
HAD INTENDED TO KIDNAP THE OAS SECRETARY GENERAL TOOK A GROUP OF HOTEL
GUESTS AS HOSTAGES AND ARE HOLDING THEM CAPTIVE ON ONE OF THE FLOORS
OF THE HOTEL.

   THE ARMED FORCES EXPECTS TO RESOLVE THIS SITUATION IN A FAVORABLE
MANNER IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS, AND THEY ARE TRYING TO ENSURE THE
PHYSICAL WELLBEING OF THE HOSTAGES.

THE ARMED FORCES HAVE
SUCCESSFULLY PUT AN END TO THE TERRORIST OPERATION CARRIED OUT AT THE
SHERATON HOTEL.  THIS MORNING S-3 UNITS OF THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES
SUCCESSFULLY PUT AN END TO THE TERRORIST OPERATION CARRIED OUT BY THE
[[FMLN]1]2 ([[FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT]1]2) AT THE SHERATON
HOTEL, RESCUED THE HOSTAGES, AND EVACUATED THE PEOPLE TRAPPED ON THE
PREMISES.

   DURING THE OPERATION THE [[FMLN]1]2 [[TERRORISTS]1]2 ATTEMPTED TO KIDNAP OAS
SECRETARY GENERAL [CLEMENTE BAENA SOARES]1.  THE REGIONAL ORGANIZATION
SENT BAENA TO THE COUNTRY TO ANALYZE THE SALVADORAN SITUATION, BUT IN
A VIOLENT AND CRUEL OPERATION THE [[TERRORISTS]1]2 ATTEMPTED TO TAKE HIM
HOSTAGE TO TRY TO NEGOTIATE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
REPUBLIC.

   HOWEVER, IN A RAPID ACTION OPERATION, AIRBORNE TROOPS MANAGED TO
RESCUE THE OAS SECRETARY GENERAL, ALTHOUGH SEVERAL FOREIGN OFFICIALS
AND AN UNDETERMINED NUMBER OF CIVILIAN GUESTS AT THE HOTEL
UNFORTUNATELY CONTINUED TO BE HELD HOSTAGE.

   THIS TERRORIST ACTION AGAINST THE LIFE AND SECURITY OF NATIONALS
AND FOREIGNERS FINALLY ENDED THIS MORNING WHEN THE OPERATION WAS
COMPLETED.  THE RESCUE OPERATION HAS BEEN WIDELY PRAISED BECAUSE THE
ARMED FORCES ONCE AGAIN DEMONSTRATED ITS PROFESSIONALISM AND SKILL,
BECAUSE IT MANAGED TO SAVE THE HOSTAGES AND THE PERSONS TRAPPED
WITHOUT ENDANGERING THEIR LIVES OR SHEDDING ANY BLOOD.

WHENEVER WE HAVE MADE ANY PEACE PROPOSAL, THE CRISTIANI GOVERNMENT
ANSWERS BY SAYING IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE PEACE AND THAT OUR
PROPOSALS ARE NOT FEASIBLE BECAUSE WE MUST RESPECT THE CONSTITUTION.
THAT IS WHAT ARENA (NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE) ALWAYS SAYS.
WELL, WE WOULD LIKE TO ASK (U.S.  AMBASSADOR) WILLIAM WALKER -- WHO
HAS SAID IN THE UNITED STATES THAT THE FMLN (FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL
LIBERATION FRONT) PEACE PROPOSALS ARE NOT FEASIBLE BECAUSE THEY
VIOLATE THE SALVADORAN CONSTITUTION -- IF THE CONSTITUTION DOES NOT
PROHIBIT FOREIGN TROOPS FROM COMING TO OUR COUNTRY WITHOUT THE
GOVERNMENT'S APPROVAL?  WE WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE CRISTIANI GOVERNMENT
AND THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY WHY U.S. ARMY SPECIAL FORCES CAME TO EL
SALVADOR, AS PRESIDENT BUSH HIMSELF ANNOUNCED?  WE SAW THESE SPECIAL
FORCES IN THE STREETS OF SAN SALVADOR, VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION THAT
YOU PEOPLE CLAIM TO DEFEND.

   WE WANT TO ASK THE PATRIOTIC OFFICIALS: WHY ARE THERE THREE ARMIES
RIGHT NOW IN THIS COUNTRY?  THERE IS THE FMLN ARMY, THE LA TANDONA
(REFERENCE TO 1966 GRADUATING CLASS OF THE CAPT GEN GERARDO BARRIOS
MILITARY ACADEMY) ARMY, AND PRESIDENT BUSH'S ARMY.  SO, WHAT
IS THE ANSWER?  WHENEVER WE PROPOSE A POLITICAL SOLUTION TO THE
CONFLICT, WE ARE TOLD IT IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE IT VIOLATES THE
CONSTITUTION.  HOWEVER, PRESIDENT BUSH VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTION THAT
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY CLAIM TO DEFEND WHEN HE
SENT A FOREIGN MILITARY FORCE TO THIS COUNTRY.  HE ALSO VIOLATED THE
SOVEREIGNTY OF THIS NATION.  THEREFORE, GENTLEMEN OF ARENA AND OF THE
HIGH COMMAND, THIS LOVE FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND THE LAWS THAT YOU
CLAIM TO HAVE IS FALSE.

   WE WANT TO ASK COLONEL PONCE: WHY IS THERE A FOREIGN MILITARY FORCE
IN OUR COUNTRY RIGHT NOW?  DOESN'T THE CONSTITUTION THAT YOUR ARMED
FORCES CLAIM TO RESPECT PROHIBIT IT?  IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN THE NATION
WANTS A POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE, YOU PEOPLE SAY IT IS
IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE WE MUST RESPECT THE CONSTITUTION.  HOWEVER, WHEN
PRESIDENT BUSH ARROGANTLY ANNOUNCES IN HIS PRESIDENTIAL PLANE THAT HIS
FORCES HAVE CARRIED OUT OPERATIONS IN A SAN SALVADOR HOTEL, THEN THE
CONSTITUTION IS WORTH NOTHING.

   WE WANT TO APPEAL TO THE ARMED FORCES OFFICERS TO THINK ABOUT THIS
SITUATION.  THERE ARE OFFICERS BEING KILLED ON THE BATTLEFIELDS.  FOR
EXAMPLE, AN OFFICER FROM THE MORAZAN BATTALION DIED IN ALTOS DE LA
CUEVA IN SAN MIGUEL; LIEUTENANTS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN SAN SALVADOR
CITY; DOZENS OF LIEUTENANTS HAVE BEEN WOUNDED OR KILLED IN THE LAST 10
DAYS.  OFFICERS, YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS.  SO WE WANT TO CALL ON THE
LIEUTENANTS, THE CAPTAINS, THE PATRIOTIC OFFICERS, TO THINK ABOUT THIS
SITUATION.  YOU ARE BEING TOLD YOU ARE DEFENDING THE CONSTITUTION.
WHAT CONSTITUTION?  AFTER ALL, A HERD OF GRINGO RAMBOS IS HERE; AND
WITH THEIR YANKEE BOOTS, THEY HAVE TRAMPLED ON THE CONSTITUTION.  SO
OFFICERS, WHAT ARE YOU DEFENDING?  WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS?  THIS
SITUATION IS UNACCEPTABLE FOR ANY SALVADORAN PATRIOT.  OFFICERS, WE
KNOW YOU ARE LISTENING TO US IN THE GARRISONS TO FIND OUT WHAT IS
HAPPENING, BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT NETWORK IS HIDING THIS INFORMATION
FROM YOU.  YOU MUST THINK OVER THIS SITUATION, OFFICERS.  YOU ARE
SHEDDING BLOOD, LOSING ARMS AND LEGS IN THE BATTLEFIELDS, SACRIFICING
YOUR LIVES, SEEING HOW THE CAPITAL CITY IS BEING DESTROYED BY THE
BOMBINGS, AND YOU ARE TOLD THIS IS BEING DONE TO DEFEND THE
CONSTITUTION.  HOWEVER, MR BUSH DECIDED TO SEND A HERD OF RAMBOS WHO
ARE GOOD FOR NOTHING.  AFTER ALL, THEY DID NOTHING, EXCEPT COVER THEIR
FACES LIKE COMMON CRIMINALS.  SO, OFFICERS, WHAT ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR?
WHAT IS AT STAKE HERE?  IS IT COMMUNISM, OR THIS OR THAT?  IS IT
BECAUSE MSGR ROMERO WAS A COMMUNIST AND THEREFORE MURDERED?  WAS IT
BECAUSE THE JESUITS WERE COMMUNISTS AND THEREFORE MURDERED?  NOW IT IS
SAID THAT THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY MEMBERS ARE COMMUNISTS.
OTHERS SAY THAT THE JOURNALISTS, THE TEACHERS ARE COMMUNISTS; EVERYONE
IS A COMMUNIST.  IS THIS A NATION OF COMMUNISTS?  WHAT IS THIS?  WE
MUST START TO THINK ABOUT THIS SITUATION AT THIS CRITICAL HOUR FOR THE
NATION.  (CONTINUED)

MEXICO BITTERLY
CONDEMNED FRIDAY THE ASSASSINATION OF SIX JESUIT PRIESTS THURSDAY IN EL
SALVADOR, SAID A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE SECRETARIAT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS
(SRE).

   THE SRE COMMUNIQUE UNDERLINED THAT PRESIDENT CARLOS SALINAS DE
GORTARI'S ADMINISTRATION ALSO EXPRESSES ITS CONSTERNATION AND PROFOUND
CONCERN FOR THE CURRENT SITUATION IN THAT CENTRAL AMERICAN NATION.

   "WHAT HAS RECENTLY OCCURRED IN EL SALVADOR PROVES THE URGENT NEED
FOR A CEASE FIRE AND THE BEGINNING OF DIRECT CONVERSATIONS IN SEARCH
OF PEACE, AS HAS BEEN CALLED FOR BY OTHER CENTRAL AMERICAN NATIONS IN
THE ESQUIPULAS AND TELA PEACE ACCORDS," INDICATED THE RELEASE.

THE MEXICAN
SECRETARIAT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS HAS REITERATED THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT'S
CONCERN ABOUT THE BLOODSHED AND THE ATMOSPHERE OF VIOLENCE IN EL SALVADOR AND
IT HAS URGED THE PARTIES CONCERNED TO RETURN TO THE PATH OF DIALOGUE AND
AGREEMENT.

   IN A COMMUNIQUE, THE FOREIGN SECRETARIAT CONVEYS MEXICO'S CALL TO
THE CENTRAL AMERICAN NATIONS TO MEET AGAIN TO PROMOTE AND TO
STRENGTHEN DIALOGUE AND CONCILIATION WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE
ESQUIPULAS AND TELA AGREEMENTS.

   THE COMMUNIQUE STATES THAT MEXICO WILL SUPPLY, THROUGH THE RED
CROSS, MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AND FOOD TO THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE TO
MITIGATE THE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES PROVOKED BY THIS CONFLICT.

   THE COMMUNIQUE ADDS THAT THE 2 WEEKS OF SERIOUS FIGHTINGS HAVE NOT
BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN CREATING EITHER THE CONDITIONS OR THE ATMOSPHERE
CONDUCIVE TO THE RESUMPTION OF THE DIALOGUE THAT WAS INITIATED IN
MEXICO AND COSTA RICA.

   THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT STATES THAT THE SERIOUS POLITICAL SITUATION
IN EL SALVADOR IS A CAUSE FOR GREAT CONCERN FOR LATIN AMERICA BOTH
FROM A REGIONAL AND HUMANITARIAN STANDPOINT.

ATTENTION. PAY
CLOSE ATTENTION.  ATTENTION.  PAY CLOSE ATTENTION.  AS WE HAVE ALREADY
REPORTED, U.S.  OFFICIALS, IMPORTANT PERSONS, AND POLITICIANS IN THE
UNITED STATES HAVE ISSUED STATEMENTS AFFIRMING THAT THE [SALVADORAN
[ARMED FORCES]1]1 ARE DIRECTLY LINKED TO THE CASE OF THE MURDERED JESUITS.
THE TESTIMONY GIVEN BY THE LADY WHO WITNESSED THE CENTRAL AMERICAN
UNIVERSITY CRIME HAS CAUSED POLITICAL UPHEAVAL THAT IS ALSO BEING FELT
IN THE CORRIDORS OF THE U.S.  CONGRESS, THE WHITE HOUSE, AND THE
PENTAGON.

   EVEN ELLIOTT ABRAMS, FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS, HAS STATED ON THE FACE THE NATION TELEVISION
PROGRAM ON 27 NOVEMBER, THAT THE MURDER OF THE SIX JESUITS, A WOMAN,
AND HER DAUGHTER WAS AN ACTION BY THE [SALVADORAN [ARMED FORCES]1]1 AND NOT
THE FMLN (FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT).  ABRAMS,
A FORMER REAGAN ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL, STATED: BASED ON 10 YEARS
EXPERIENCE ON THE SALVADORAN CONFLICT, I PRESUME THAT THE DEATH OF THE
PRIESTS WAS NOT THE WORK OF LEFTIST GUERRILLAS, BUT AN ACTION BY
[FORCES OF THE CRISTIANI ADMINISTRATION]1.  WE DO NOT HAVE A RECORD OF
GUERRILLAS TAKING THIS SORT OF ACTION, SAID ELLIOT ABRAMS.  HE ADDED
THAT, IN THE PAST, MANY MILITARY OFFICERS HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH
THE SO-CALLED DEATH SQUADS AND THE RIGHTIST SECTOR IN EL SALVADOR.
THESE WERE THE STATEMENTS BY ELLIOT ABRAMS.  VOA HAS REPORTED THE
STATEMENTS BY THE WOMAN WHO WITNESSED THE CRIME.  AT THIS TIME IN THE
UNITED STATES, THE [SALVADORAN TOP MILITARY COMMAND]1, [COLONEL RENE
EMILIO PONCE]1, AND [PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI]1 ARE BEING POINTED OUT AS
THE PERSONS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ABOMINABLE CRIME.

   IN RELATION TO THIS, WE WANT TO DENOUNCE THE FOLLOWING TO THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA.  OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS, THE CRISTIANI
ADMINISTRATION HAS TRIED TO DIVERT THE ATTENTION OF THE UNITED STATES
THAT IS PRESENTLY CENTERED ON THE CASE OF THE MURDERED JESUITS AND THE
INVOLVEMENT OF THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT IN THIS CRIME.  WE DENOUNCE
THE ARREST OF U.S. CITIZEN JENNIFER CAZOLO AS PART OF A [SALVADORAN
[ARMED FORCES]1]1 PLAN TO ATTEMPT TO DIVERT THE ATTENTION OF INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC OPINION FROM THE JESUITS' CASE.  WE ALSO DENOUNCE THE ARREST OF
JENNIFER CAZOLO AS A REPRESSIVE ACT.  ALSO, THE [ARMED FORCES]1 IS TRYING
TO LINK HUMANITARIAN AID FOR EL SALVADOR, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND U.S.-BASED
ORGANIZATIONS TO THE FMLN.  IT IS TRYING TO LINK THESE ORGANIZATIONS
AND THESE PERSONS TO THE FMLN.

   THE FMLN COMPLETELY DENIES THAT IT HAS ANY LINK WITH U.S. CITIZEN
JENNIFER CAZOLO.  WE DENOUNCE THIS ACCUSATION AS A CLUMSY SET UP BY
THE [ARMED FORCES]1 COMMAND, WHICH IS TRYING -- WE REPEAT -- TRYING TO
REPRESS THESE HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS AND FOREIGNERS.  THIS IS A
SET UP BY THE [ARMED FORCES]1 TO REPRESS FOREIGN CITIZENS AND -- WE
REPEAT -- IT IS A SMOKE SCREEN TO DIVERT U.S. ATTENTION FROM THE CASE
THAT IS PRESENTLY ON THE TABLE.  IT IS A SET UP TO NOT ATTEND THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S DEMAND FOR JUSTICE IN THE CASE OF THE JESUIT
PRIESTS.

   IF ELLIOT ABRAMS, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INTER-AMERICAN
AFFAIRS, WHO KNOWS SO MUCH ABOUT EL SALVADOR, SAYS THAT IT WAS NOT THE
FMLN AND THAT THE CRIME WAS COMMITTED BY MILITARY UNITS AND PERSONS
LINKED TO THE CRISTIANI ADMINISTRATION, HIS STATEMENTS WILL HAVE
STRONG REPERCUSSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.  THE [ARMED FORCES]1 COMMAND
AND THE CRISTIANI ADMINISTRATION ARE TRYING TO DO ALL THEY CAN TO
THROW A SMOKESCREEN HERE AND THERE TO TRY TO DIVERT THE ATTENTION OF
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND, ESPECIALLY, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
STATES.

   IN CONCLUSION, WE REAFIRM: WE DENY THE [ARMED FORCES]1' ACCUSATIONS
AGAINST U.S. CITIZEN JENNIFER CAZOLO.  WE STATE THAT THE ACCUSATION IS
A CLUMSY SET UP TO HIDE AND NOT RESPOND TO THE QUESTION EVERYONE IS
ASKING -- WHERE ARE THE MURDERERS OF THE JESUITS?  BEHIND THE CLUMSY
SET UP WITH REGARD TO THE U.S. CITIZEN, WE ALSO SEE THAT THEY INTEND
TO CONTINUE TO REPRESS HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS AND DIFFERENT
SECTORS THAT HAVE EXPRESSED SOLIDARITY WITH EL SALVADOR.  IN SHORT,
ALL THIS SET UP ATTEMPTS TO DO IS THROW A HUGE SMOKESCREEN TO REPRESS
THESE ORGANIZATIONS AND FOREIGNERS.

AT LEAST 9 PEOPLE HAVE DIED
AND 13 MORE WERE WOUNDED -- INCLUDING SOLDIERS, [[REBELS]1]2, AND CIVILIANS
-- IN THE ARMED CONFRONTATIONS DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS IN SAN
SALVADOR AND 2 DEPARTMENTS IN THE NORTH AND EAST OF EL SALVADOR,
ACCORDING TO MILITARY REPORTS.

   FOUR GUERRILLAS DIED AND TWO SOLDIERS WERE WOUNDED IN
CONFRONTATIONS THAT OCCURRED EARLY THIS MORNING IN THE CITIES OF
MEJICANOS AND CIUDAD DELGADO, LOCATED NORTH OF SAN SALVADOR, ACCORDING
TO THE SAME REPORTS.

   THE CONFRONTATIONS, IN WHICH [CAR]2BINES, MORTARS, AND [EXPLOSIVES]1 WERE
USED, BEGAN AT 0230 (0830 GMT), WHEN THE [[REBELS]1]2 "TRIED TO ENTER" THE
NORTHERN SUBURBS OF SAN SALVADOR, BUT THEY WERE "REPELLED" BY
GOVERNMENT TROOPS WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE AIR FORCE, ACCORDING TO THE
ARMY'S PRESS OFFICE.

   ANOTHER FOUR GUERRILLAS WERE KILLED AND TWO WERE WOUNDED IN ARMED
CONFRONTATIONS IN TONACATEPEQUE, 16 KM NORTH OF SAN SALVADOR, AND IN
CHALATENANGO AND SAN MIGUEL, LOCATED IN THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS
OF THE COUNTRY, RESPECTIVELY.

   THE ARMY HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT ONE SOLDIER DIED AND ANOTHER FIVE
WERE WOUNDED IN THOSE PLACES.

   THE ARMED FORCES HAVE STATED THAT FOUR EMPLOYEES OF THE RIO LEMPA
HYDROELECTRIC EXECUTIVE COMMISSION WERE WOUNDED BY [EXPLOSIVES]1 THAT HAD
BEEN PLACED BY THE [[REBELS]1]2 IN A [TECHNICAL INSTITUTE]1 LOCATED IN THE
ZACAMIL NEIGHBORHOOD, WHICH HAD BEEN OCCUPIED FOR SOME DAYS BY THE
[[REBELS]1]2 DURING THE RECENT OFFENSIVE.

   THE ARMY ALSO INDICATES THAT THE [[REBELS]1]2 SET FIRE TO A [CAR]2 AND
ANOTHER TWO [VEHICLES]2 IN SAN SALVADOR AND SAN MIGUEL.

DEPUTY DEFENSE
MINISTER COLONEL JUAN ORLANDO ZEPEDA HAS SAID THAT THE ARMED FORCES
STRUCTURE REMAINS INTACT AND THAT THE FMLN (FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL
LIBERATION FRONT) TERRORISTS HAVE NO POSSIBILITY OF LAUNCHING ANOTHER
OFFENSIVE.  COL ZEPEDA SAID THAT THE COMMUNIST'S INDISCRIMINATE ATTACK
WAS LAUNCHED AGAINST THE CIVILIAN POPULATION AND NOT AGAINST THE
MILITARY.  ACCORDING TO THE MILITARY CHIEF, THE TERRORISTS WERE TRYING
TO ENCOURAGE AN UPRISING AMONG THE PEOPLE; HOWEVER, THEY FAILED IN
THEIR ATTEMPT BECAUSE THE PEOPLE TURNED THEIR BACKS ON THEM AND GAVE
THEIR SUPPORT TO THE ARMED FORCES.  COL ZEPEDA SAID THAT THE SUPPORT
OF THE PEOPLE FOR THE ARMED FORCES HAS BEEN ESSENTIAL AND VERY
IMPORTANT TO NEUTRALIZE THE FMLN'S COMMUNIST ATTACK.  THE DEPUTY
DEFENSE MINISTER SAID THAT THANKS TO THIS TOTAL SUPPORT, THE ARMED
FORCES HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LOCATE A LOT OF WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION.  COL
ZEPEDA MENTIONED THE ALTOS DE LA CUEVA CASE IN SAN MIGUEL, WHERE
APPROXIMATELY A MILLION ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION WERE FOUND.  ZEPEDA
CALLED ON THE PEOPLE TO MAINTAIN THEIR TRUST IN THE ARMED FORCES,
ADDING THAT THE ARMED FORCES' MORALE IS HIGH, VERY HIGH.

WE
HAVE AN ACAN-EFE REPORT ON THE SITUATION IN EL SALVADOR.  THE REPORT
READS: THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS TODAY UNLEASHED A NEW OFFENSIVE IN
SAN SALVADOR WITH ATTACKS ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS AND FIERCE CLASHES
WITH THE ARMY IN SEVERAL NEIGHBORHOODS IN SAN SALVADOR, WHICH CONTINUE
UP UNTIL MID-MORNING ON 29 NOVEMBER.  THE ACAN-EFE REPORT ADDS: THE
GUERRILLAS' ACTIONS AFFECTED ESCALON, SAN FRANCISCO, AND SAN BENITO
NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE THE RESIDENCES OF PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI AND
U.S.  AMBASSADOR WILLIAM WALKER ARE LOCATED.

   A LOCAL TELEVISION STATION REPORTED THERE WERE SHOOTOUTS EARLY THIS
MORNING ON LA CAPILLA STREET IN SAN BENITO NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THE
RESIDENCE OF U.S. AMBASSADOR WILLIAM WALKER IS LOCATED.  THE FMLN AND
THE ARMY ARE ALSO FIGHTING IN MEJICANOS AND CIUDAD DELGADO IN NORTHERN
SAN SALVADOR.  THE FMLN IS MAINTAINING POSITIONS ON THE HIGHWAY
LINKING SAN SALVADOR TO THE WESTERN SECTOR OF THE COUNTRY.  THE FMLN
REPORTED THIS MORNING THAT ITS TROOPS AMBUSHED PATROLS FROM THE ARMED
FORCES ELITE BATTALIONS.  WITNESSES CONFIRMED TO ACAN-EFE THAT THE
FMLN TOOK POSITIONS IN ANTIGUO CUSCATLAN, A TOWN SOUTHEAST OF SAN
SALVADOR.

   THIS HAS BEEN AN ACAN-EFE REPORT ON THE SITUATION IN SAN SALVADOR.

NATIONAL GUARD
PERSONNEL STATIONED IN SAN MIGUEL HAVE CAPTURED THE FMLN (FARABUNDO
MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT) TERRORIST COMMANDER WHO GOES BY THE
PSEUDONYM ARISTIDES IN A NEIGHBORHOOD IN THAT TOWN.  ARISTIDES HAD
BEEN OPERATING IN A LARGE SECTOR OF THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY
FOR SOME TIME, AND HAD COMMITTED ALL TYPES OF CRIMES AGAINST THE
SALVADORAN PEOPLE.

   COMMANDER ARISTIDES HAS PROVIDED THE ARMED FORCES WITH IMPORTANT
INFORMATION DIRECTLY LINKING THE CYNICAL NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT DANIEL
ORTEGA'S GOVERNMENT TO THE FMLN.

SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI
ANNOUNCED LAST SUNDAY THAT THE REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR HAS BROKEN
DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH NICARAGUA.  ANALYST ALEKSEY PAVLOV DISCUSSES THIS
SUBJECT:

   FOR THOSE WHO ARE FAMILIAR WITH CENTRAL AMERICAN ISSUES, THIS NEWS
IS NO SURPRISE. GIVEN THE FAILURE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE
SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT AND THE GUERRILLAS AS WELL AS THE RESUMPTION OF
THE WAR, THE CRISTIANI ADMINISTRATION WAS PRESSURED BY CERTAIN U.S.
CIRCLES TO BREAK RELATIONS WITH NICARAGUA.

   THE (WORD INDISTINCT) MEDIA ARE CONDUCTING A CRUSADE TO CONVINCE
THE PUBLIC THAT CUBA, NICARAGUA, AND CERTAINLY THE USSR, ARE PROVIDING
WEAPONS TO THE (WORD INDISTINCT) REVOLUTIONARIES.  THE UNITED STATES
CERTAINLY PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THIS CAMPAIGN, AND SO HAS
PRESIDENT CRISTIANI BY DECLARING THAT HE WILL NOT ATTEND THE REGIONAL
PRESIDENTIAL SUMMIT SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER IN MANAGUA.

   APPARENTLY, CRISTIANI NEEDED TO BREAK RELATIONS WITH NICARAGUA IN
ORDER NOT TO ATTEND TO THE SUMMIT.  THIS IS COMPREHENSIBLE BECAUSE THE
CENTRAL AMERICAN PRESIDENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO DISCUSS THE COMPLIANCE
WITH THE TELA AGREEMENTS, THE DISMANTLING OF THE CONTRAS, AND THE
CONTINUATION OF PEACE TALKS IN EL SALVADOR. IN FACT, CRISTIANI WAS
UNABLE TO JUSTIFY HIS REFUSAL TO ATTEND THIS SUMMIT.

   THERE ARE OTHER REASONS WHY CRISTIANI WISHES TO USE THE BREAK WITH
NICARAGUA AS A MASK.  HE IS TRYING TO DISTRACT PUBLIC ATTENTION FROM
THE SALVADORAN ARMY'S HEAVY BOMBINGS OF HEAVILY POPULATED AREAS,
INCLUDING THE CAPITAL, AND THE REPRESSION AGAINST SALVADORAN RELIGIOUS
AND LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.

   IN OTHER TERMS, CRISTIANI WANTS TO CONCEAL THE FACT THAT HE CANNOT
CONTROL THE EXCESSES COMMITTED BY HIS GENERALS; THAT IS, THE GENOCIDE
THAT THE SALVADORAN ARMY IS PERPETRATING AGAINST ITS OWN PEOPLE.  THE
CRISTIANI ADMINISTRATION IS ALSO UNABLE TO CONTROL THE DEATH SQUADS
WHICH ARE MURDERING PEOPLE WITH IMPUNITY.

   IT IS REVEALING THAT SEVERAL DAYS BEFORE CRISTIANI DECLARED THE
BREAK OF DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH NICARAGUA, NICARAGUAN EMBASSY STAFF IN
SAN SALVADOR WERE EVACUATED HOME IN FACE OF THE DEATH THREATS BY THE
DEATH SQUADS.  IS THIS MERE COINCIDENCE?  OF COURSE NOT.  MOST
PROBABLY THESE DEATH SQUADS RECEIVED ORDERS TO MAKE SUCH THREATS WITH
A VIEW TOWARD THE DIPLOMATIC BREAK.

   BY WHAT CAN BE SEEN, THE ACTION OF DEATH SQUADS IS COMMON PRACTICE
FOR THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT.  HOWEVER, THIS DIPLOMATIC BREAK IS A
SERIOUS ACT FOR WHICH CRISTIANI IS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE.  HONDURAN
PRESIDENT JOSE AZCONA HOYO CONSIDERS THIS ACTION A GREAT DANGER TO
PEACE IN THE ISTHMUS.  THIS IS AN UNQUESTIONABLE FACT.

THE
CLANDESTINE AND LIAR RADIO STATIONS OF THE FMLN (FARABUNDO MARTI
NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT) TERRORISTS CONTINUE TO CONDUCT A
DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AT AN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL WITH THE PURPOSE OF
DISTORTING THE TRUTH REGARDING THE AGGRESSION THESE BANDITS HAVE
LAUNCHED AGAINST THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE.

   VERY FREQUENTLY THEY BROADCAST REPORTS OF UNIMAGINABLE MILITARY
VICTORIES OF THE FMLN.  THEIR LIAR RADIO STATIONS SAY THEY HAVE
OCCUPIED THE MUNICIPALITIES OF SOYAPANGO, MEJICANOS, AYUTUXTEPEQUE,
CIUDAD DELGADO, AND OTHERS, WHICH, DESPITE THE TRAGEDY WE ARE
SUFFERING, MAKES PEOPLE BURST OUT LAUGHING BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS
THESE ARE BIG LIES.  THESE CLAIMS ARE ABSOLUTELY FALSE.  THE RESIDENTS
OF THOSE MUNICIPALITIES ARE GOING TO THEIR JOBS, BUSES ARE OPERATING,
AND EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES ARE BEING CONDUCTED IN A NORMAL MANNER.

   THE LIAR RADIO STATIONS OF THE FMLN THINK THEY CAN CONFUSE THE
PUBLIC OPINION WITH THEIR FALSE INFORMATION.  THESE STATIONS ARE USED
FOR PROPAGANDISTIC AND DISINFORMATION PURPOSES TO MAKE IT APPEAR AS IF
THE FMLN IS WINNING MILITARY VICTORIES, WHICH THEY HAVE NEVER ATTAINED
AND WHICH ARE ONLY IN THE MINDS OF ORTEGA'S PUPPETS, WHO BROADCAST
FROM MANAGUA.

   THE PEOPLE ARE ASKING THEMSELVES: WHERE ARE THE COWARDLY TERRORIST
AND MURDEROUS CHIEFS OF THE FMLN, SHAFIK HANDAL, JOAQUIN VILLALOBOS,
AND OTHER COWARDS, WHO ARE IN MANAGUA ENJOYING A LUXURIOUS LIFE AND
GOOD FOOD?

   THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE ARE FULLY AWARE OF THE VICTORIOUS ACTIONS OF
OUR ARMED FORCES, WHO SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS GENOCIDAL AND
TERRORIST FMLN OFFENSIVE HAVE FACED THE AGGRESSIVE MERCENARIES BY
REDUCING THEM TO SMALL TERRORIST GROUPS, WHICH ARE LOST AND ARE
IRRATIONALLY ATTACKING THE CIVILIAN POPULATION.

   THE FMLN HAS RIDICULOUSLY CLAIMED TO COMPLETELY CONTROL CERTAIN
MUNICIPALITIES.  ALL OF THESE LIES SHOW THAT THE MURDEROUS FMLN
LEADERS DO NOT HAVE ANY ARGUMENTS WITH WHICH TO CONCEAL THEIR
UNSUCCESSFUL REBEL OFFENSIVE.

   THEIR GREATEST FAILURE HAS BEEN THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE'S REJECTION
OF THE REBEL ACTIONS.  DESPITE SO MANY THREATS MADE BY THE FMLN
TERRORISTS, OUR PEOPLE HAVE NEVER SUPPORTED THEM, LET ALONE AGREED TO
ACCEPT THE WEAPONS THAT THE FMLN WERE OFFERING THEM IF THEY JOINED THE
REBELLION.  THE FMLN AND ITS TERRORIST OFFENSIVE, WHICH WAS CONDUCTED
WITH THE WEAPONS THAT DICTATOR ORTEGA HAS GIVEN TO THE FMLN PUPPETS,
HAS FAILED, AND THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE EXPECT THE NATIONS OF THE FREE
WORLD TO CONDEMN THIS GENOCIDAL AGGRESSION OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM.

FOLLOWING A SOVIET ORDER,
DANIEL ORTEGA HAS BEEN FORCED TO EXPELL FROM NICARAGUA THE FMLN
(FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT) TERRORIST LEADERS WHO FOR
YEARS HAVE KEPT THEIR GENERAL COMMAND POST IN MANAGUA, WITH ORTEGA'S
SUPPORT AND PROTECTION.  WHEN THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT CONFIRMED THAT
ORTEGA HAD SUPPLIED ARMS TO THE FMLN, WHICH WERE SECRETLY INTENDED FOR
THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE SANDINIST ARMY -- AS WAS THE CASE OF THE
SAM-7 MISSILES -- THEY ORDERED HIM TO STOP SUPPORTING THE FMLN
TERRORISTS BECAUSE THIS IS ENDANGERING USSR AND U.S. RAPPROCHEMENT
POLICIES.  THE KREMLIN HAS REACTED WITH NOTICEABLE ANNOYANCE FOLLOWING
FIDEL CASTRO AND DANIEL ORTEGA'S DIRECT MEDDLING, WHICH IS CAUSING
SERIOUS DIVISIONS WITHIN THE LEADERSHIP OF THE SANDINIST GOVERNMENT
BECAUSE SOME OF THE COMMANDERS DID NOT AGREE ON SUPPORTING THE FMLN
TERRORIST UPSURGE.

   THE EXPULSION ORDER FOR JORGE SHAFIK HANDAL, JOAQUIN VILLALOBOS,
AND OTHER FMLN LEADERS IS EXPECTED ANY MOMENT NOW.  THIS WILL
SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE FMLN'S POLITICAL CLOUT.  AT THE SUMMIT
MEETING BETWEEN THE SOVIET AND U.S. PRESIDENTS, CASTRO AND ORTEGA'S
AGGRESSION, USING THE FMLN AGAINST THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE, WILL BE
REVIEWED FOLLOWING PRESIDENT ARIAS OF COSTA RICA'S INITIATIVE.

JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO
TWO VERY STRONG EXPLOSIONS OCCURRED IN THE CENTER OF BOGOTA.  WE FELT THESE
EXPLOSIONS HERE AT THE RCN (RADIO CADENA NACIONAL) BUILDING. ONE OF THE
EXPLOSIONS OCCURRED IN THE VICINITY OF THE [COURTS]1 IN THE PALO QUEMADO
SECTOR, WHERE ALL THE BOGOTA [JUDICIAL BRANCH OFFICES]1 ARE LOCATED.
APPARENTLY THE OTHER EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN A STREET NEAR THE [PRESIDENTIAL
PALACE]4.

   THERE WERE TWO EXPLOSIONS OCCURRING CONSECUTIVELY BUT VERY CLOSE
TOGETHER, WHICH IS WHY IT WAS FELT SO STRONGLY.  IT INITIALLY FELT
LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE: FIRST THE WAVE AND THEN THE EXPLOSION.  ALL THE
RESIDENTS IN THIS CENTRAL AREA OF BOGOTA FELT IT.

   IT IS ALSO SAID THAT THE EXPLOSION COULD HAVE OCCURRED CLOSER TO
THE [ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY]1, [DAS]1, WHICH IS LOCATED IN
THE SAME AREA.  THE [DAS]1 HEADQUARTERS ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER FROM
THE [JUDICIAL BRANCH OFFICES]1 IN PALO QUEMADO.  THE STRONG EXPLOSION
THAT WAS FELT BY ALL OF US WHO WORK AT THIS HOUR IN THE CENTRAL BOGOTA
AREA TOOK PLACE AT 19TH CARRERA AND 25TH STREET IN PALO QUEMADO.  I
REPEAT, TWO CONSECUTIVE EXPLOSIONS OCCURRED AT 0735 IN THE CENTER OF
BOGOTA.

   HERE IS SOME UPDATED INFORMATION: IT WAS NOT TWO EXPLOSIONS, AS WE
HAD INTIALLY BELIEVED, BUT THREE EXPLOSIONS THAT OCCURRED A FEW
MINUTES AGO IN BOGOTA. ONE OF THEM WAS IN THE PALO QUEMADO SECTOR, AS
WE HAVE ALREADY REPORTED, IN THE AREA WHERE BOTH THE BOGOTA [COURTS]1 AND
[DAS]1 ARE LOCATED.  ANOTHER EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF
BOGOTA AT 14TH CARRERA AND 28TH STREET SOUTH, APPARENTLY NEAR AN
[AGRARIAN TRUST BRANCH]2 IN THE BARRIO GUSTAVO RESTREPO NEIGHBORHOOD.  A
THIRD EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN THE CENTRAL AREA OF BOGOTA.  THESE THREE
EXPLOSIONS IN BOGOTA TOOK PLACE ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY, JUST A FEW
SECONDS APART.

   WE NOW HAVE OFFICIAL FIGURES OF THE EXPLOSION NEAR THE [DAS]1
HEADQUARTERS: SEVEN PERSONS WERE KILLED, MORE THAN 50 WERE WOUNDED,
AND APPROXIMATELY 25 [VEHICLES]1 AND AT LEAST 15 [BUILDINGS]1 -- INCLUDING
THE [DAS]1 OFFICES THAT WERE PARTIALLY DESTROYED -- WERE DAMAGED.
INITIALLY, [DAS]1 OFFICIALS HAVE ESTIMATED THAT A POWERFUL BOMB OF MORE
THAN 100 KG OF [DYNAMITE]1 PLACED IN A [TRUCK]1 WAS ACTIVATED.

   THE HUGE EXPLOSION CAUSED THE INITIAL DESTRUCTION OF THE FRONT PART
OF THE [DAS]1 HEADQUARTERS, AS WELL AS A BUILDING WHERE THERE WAS A
HARDWARE STORE, AND THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF SIX OR SEVEN OTHER
[BUILDINGS]1.  A CRATER 15 METERS WIDE AND 6 METERS DEEP WAS CREATED IN
27TH CARRERA.

   MOST OF THE VICTIMS OF THE EXPLOSION WERE IN PRIVATE [VEHICLES]1 AND
TAXIS, AND ONLY FOUR WERE WALKING IN THE AREA WHEN THE EXPLOSION
OCCURRED AT ALMOST 0740.  OFFICIALS SAY INITIALLY THAT THERE WERE 50
PERSONS, HIT BY GLASS SHARDS AND FLYING PIECES OF [VEHICLES]1, INJURED IN
THE EXPLOSION.  OFFICIALS HAVE INDICATED THAT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE
NUMBER OF VICTIMS WILL INCREASE, AS THE ATTACK AGAINST THE [DAS]1
HEADQUARTERS WAS VERY STRONG.  WE REPEAT: OFFICIALLY, SEVEN PERSONS
WERE KILLED HERE IN FRONT OF THE [DAS]1 HEADQUARTERS.