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The Battalion
WORLD & NATION
10
Tuesday, November 14,1989
Hundreds die as El Salvadoran arm'
battles leftist rebels in capital’s street;
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Rebels
held large parts of several poor neighborhoods
Monday and battled soldiers in a third day of the
worst fighting the capital has experienced in a
decade of civil war.
At least 245 had been killed and 378 wounded
since the rebels attacked Saturday night in their
biggest offensive since 1981, according to the
armed forces mortuary, civilian morgues and
hospitals and unofficial military figures.
Thousands of civilians were trapped in their
homes by exchanges of gunfire between the
army and guerrillas of the leftist Farabundo
Marti National Liberation Front. Helicopter gun-
ships and military planes flew over the city to at
tack rebel positions.
Few of the city’s 1 million people were on the
streets and nearly all downtown stores were
closed. People went to the armed forces mortu
ary looking for missing relatives.
Fighting also was reported outside Usulutan, a
major city in eastern El Salvador, but not in the
city itself.
The army press office stopped providing in
formation Monday and whether combat contin
ued in the provinces was not clear. Telephone
calls to provincial cities did not go through.
There were no new official counts of dead and
wounded from the armed forces.
The armed forces funeral home said it had the
bodies of 67 soldiers and military sources said
unofficially 127 guerrillas had been killed.
Morgues said they had bodies of 51 civilians.
Hospitals said a total of 258 civilians had been
injured. On Sunday, the armed forces said 65
soldiers and 55 guerrillas had been wounded.
President Alfredo Cristiani announced a state
of siege and a 6 p.m.-6 a.m. curfew Sunday and
legislators were considering more restrictionsk
civil rights. A photographer who tried to me
the legislature’s building Monday was turn:
hack by gunfire.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Barry Jacobs saidt
army counteroffensive had been slowed becau#
soldiers were ordered to avoid civilian casuafo
The Bush administration said Cristiani’s
eminent had not requested U.S. assistance inn
pelling the rebel attack.
“It’s our belief that they are in controlofib
situation at this point,” White House press seat
tary Marlin Fitzwater said. Asked whether i
would rule out U.S. involvement in the fighticj
he said: “We can never predict the future,bm
this point it’s not anticipated.”
Fifty-five U.S. military trainers are stationed
FI Salvador but are not supposed to participate
military missions.
East German Parliament names
non-communist to speaker post
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BERLIN (AP) — Parliament
chose a leading reformer as premier
today, and more than 200,000 East
Germans marched in Leipzig to de
mand free elections from a govern
ment that already has been pres
sured into granting them free travel.
Parliament also for the first time
elected a non-communist as its
speaker.
The demonstrators, gathered in
the city that has become the focus
for protests against the East German
leadership, demanded the Commu
nist Party abolish its monopoly on
power.
West German television newscasts
estimated the number of protesters
at between 200,000 and 300,000.
The protest came after a weekend
in which East Germans by the mil
lions exercised their new freedom to
travel, a right granted by the govern
ment to counter an exodus of emi
gres to the West.
East Berliners today began re
turning to their jobs after four days
of frenzied celebrations at the newly
opened Berlin Wall, and officials
said fewer than 1 percent of those
who crossed into the West during
the weekend chose to stay in West
Germany.
About 100,000 East German visi-
I he Parliament elected
Hans Modrow, a well
known reformer, as
Premier. Modrow is the
first non-Communist ever
elected to the post.
tors still headed West today, West
German authorities said. The flow
of visitors was far slower than during
the weekend, when more than 3 mil
lion people made the trip.
In East Berlin, the Parliament
convened and elected Hans Mod-
row, a leading reformer, to be the
new premier. He would replace Willi
Stoph, who resigned along with his
44-member Cabinet on Tuesday.
Modrow is a well known reformer
within the party, which has been
headed by Egon Krenz since Oct. 18.
Krenz himself has promised some
reforms, including free elections.
Earlier, Parliament elected a non
communist, Guenther Maleuda, as
its new speaker in an unprecedented
secret ballot. The ruling Communist
Party did not propose a candidate
for the post.
Maleuda, 58, is the chairman of
the Democratic Peasants party, one
of the four small parties that have
been allied with the Communists for
40 years. During the political tur
moil in recent weeks, the four par
ties have been cautiously exploring
ways of becoming more indepen
dent.
Also today, the party’s 163-mem-
ber Central Committee set Dec. 15
for an emergency party congress.
Scientists urg
rescue plans
for astronauts
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP
— Astronauts, cosmonauts ant
scientists from around the worlc
urged their nations Mondavi
develop a way to rescue peopk
who become lost in space.
The A ssociation of Space Ej
plorers, whose members indudt
space travelers and scientiii!
from the United States and ibi
Soviet Union, said a univera
method of retrieving strandedav
tronauts is crucial.
“Since search and rescue is
humanitarian effort, it shouldnt
be difficult to achieve coop
at ion among national and inlet
national organizations . ..,”UA
astronaut Vincent White toldtlit
congress.
Fifty-live members from
countries held the group's5thar.
nual conference in Riyadh todiv|
cuss ways to harness space tech
nology for peaceful purposes.
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The Fords
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get ready for some family history.
"Everyone in my family has driven a Volkswagen
at one time or another. My dad had a Microbus in
the Sixties. My mom and sister both drove Beetles.
And my brother, who's also a student drives an
'83 Volkswagen Rabbit.
"So when I saved enough money to buy a car
there was only one logical choice. A Volkswagen.
My car's a '79 Rabbit. With 145,000 miles on it.
Ten years old and all those miles and it's still
running great.
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