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THE US ambassador to porary replacement is the Pentagon appointee programme to El Salvador which included sending 'training teams' and a score of helicopter gunships.

the Reagan team to shore up the demoralised THE first generalised offensive against the Duarte regime was a limited but important success. shouldn't speak of a final offensive. That is the way the US and the junta describe it in order to claim that it was a failure.

The FMLN launched thousands of fighters against military installations in provincial tapitals; Chalatanango, Suchitoto, Zacatecoluca, Sensuntepeque, La Union and San Francisco Gotera.

They were able to occupy these major cities tor periods ot up to and occupying. It was able to hold all the working class neighbourhoods in San Salvador itself at the beginning of the offensive.

El Salvador was last week summarily sacked by Reagan. His temFrederic L Chapin, who headed the military aid This move reflects the desperate attempts by San Salvador PAZIFIK the defections to the revolution show that there is a more radical wing in the army than Majana and his supporters.

Large liberated zones have now been established in the provinces Santa

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