Venceremos which is important localities have been occupied in the Eastern Province or Morazan and two in the Northern Province of chaladoce. ror the first time months, severa actions were launched simultaneously in the capital: uniformed guerrilla units succeeded in temporariv occupying the northern suburbs of San Salvador, only retreating having destroyed electricity and telecommunication installations used by the army.
The units whose officer corps has recently been bolstered by training in the United States and 'advised' by a growing number American officers — were despatched to the eastern and northern zones most DURING OCTOBER, the revolutionaries of the National Liberation Front (FMLN) launched a new offensive against the transmitted from terthreatened by the FMLN After a week of hard fighting 'heaviest CLIC for a long time' declared a to the speciai envoy of the American press the result was catastrophic for the regime which pretended 'to exercise authority over the quasi-totality of the country' In the of Morazan, telephone links were broken and the town of Perquin, San Fernando and Torola remainulch the contro. of FMLN fighters. All attempts by government troops to retake them falled. On the outskirts of Perquin, an entire soldiers were either killed was decimated, or taken prisoner. FMLN guerillas make their own weapons In regions the guerrilla forces have been traditionally weak, and have also been launched.
In the Cabanas province between Chatalanga and Morazan. LWU militar posts have fallen into the hands the meanwhile in Usulutan in the south, the port of E Triunfo was blockaded and taken over.
The scope of the operations, unen coordination over large part Salvadoran territory, th depth of popular support they enjoyed, are the best response the revolutionary Salvadorans could make to those who speculated on their isolation their weakness and their 'incapacity henceforth to launch major military actions as high Washington State Department official recently antatorship, the political advalares wall na oci to draw from the 28 March al C finally revealed to be extremely limited This is the context in which he places the new offer of negotiations made by the FMLN as it began its October offensive. The for negotiations been rejected out of hand the genocidal military in San Salvador whose principle objective tinues to be ne multar crushing of the revolutionary forces. This objective shared by the ambassador even at the price of the martyrdom of the peopl of El Salvador.
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dictatorship. From 10 October, FMLN units of up to 700 fighters launched a series of coor- dinated attacks against military targets in dif- ferent parts of the country. According to Radio
ritory under the control of the revolutionaries some important successes had been reported.