FMLN DECISION TO POSTPONE NATIONAL OFFENSIVE DUE IN PART TO FRONT GROUPS' INABI

Created: 1/27/1990

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iulioS Dt< i. A*ii iiiiilol aran tee RANK AND fill members WOULD Rl. PRH-ABUi Id Sill1ATIONWIDE ARMED OPERATION. MEMBERS hereI* WIRI SHOCKED by the OFFENSIVE wiikii began ON IIv. AND unts members and OTHER FRONT GROUPi.ni INTO hiding and HAVE REFUSED to emerge the UlVIANNEMl IMPOSED STATE Ol SIEGE and SUSPENSION of CONSTITUTIONAL BIGHTS have ALSO HAMPERED thl GROUP'S OPERATIONS.

S. HOWEVER. PORTILLOitm* I THE MAT NAT luNAl INSURRECTION ONCE THE STATE 01 SIEGEFTED AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ARE RESTORED. THE UNTS AND OTHER FRONT ORGANIZATIONS ALSO PLANNED TO MOUNT CAMPAIGNS TO DENOUNCE "HUMAN BIGHTS ABUSES" BY

THE ARMED FORCES OF EL SALVADOR: THECTOBER* BOMBING OF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF SALVADORAN WORKERS UNIONSHICH CLAIMED THE LIVES of union LEADERS. ASTRAS LEADER febe ELIZABETH VELAZQUEZ; AND THE IB NOVEMBER ASSASSIN AT ions OF THE SIR CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY jesuii PRIESTS.

4. PORTILLO CLAIMED THE MPSC BELIEVES THE JESUITS WEBI. NOT KILLED BY LOW RANKING SOLDIERS. BUT THAT THL KILLINGS WEBE ORCHESTRATED BY COLONEL HECTORIRECTOR OF THE TREASURY POLICE. AND1ONOR ART PRESIDENT FOR LIFE OF THL NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE (ARENA) PARTY. THE mpsc PLANS TO PUBLICLY CALL FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF HERNANDEZ AND DAUBUISSON. if thet ABE not IDENTIFIED BY THE GOVERNMENT as the MASTERMINDS of the ASSASSINATIONS.

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several members of thec at i. immediate reaction battalion have been arrested in connection with the murder of ike jesuits. there is no evidence to date implicating either hernandez ok o'aubuisson.)