European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes july 1985 daily Magazine stake deepens stalemate in Al Salva by Charles Hanley associated press the 5yearold civil War in Al that turbulent land of Volcano and is settling Down to a steady simmer of blood and tears no no Clear Way the stake grows Ever Bottom line is that this War could go on for some concludes a military adviser at the fortress like embassy in san the revolutionaries we arc in a military says a leading Hector did you underestimate determination to Stop you he is Oqueli but i think the United states also underestimated the potential of a War of this nature its prestige is now on the the conflict Between leftist rebels and the salvadoran gov once fought in battalion move ments and fallout guerrilla has now become a War of ambush and Sab of air strikes and deadly guerrilla thrusts into the heart of san the Mountain ringed the momentum has swung to the government Side in the past analysts but a final Victory is not in the guerrillas say the new Low intensity combat is suited to their prolonged War of there is one sure a dour Arch Bishop Arturo Rivera y Damas told the faithful one recent sunday in his Caver Nous metropolitan the people arc suffering More and More from insecurity and an estimated salvadorans have been killed since fighting broke out be tween the armed left and the rightist dominated salvadoran army in Many victims were labor Stu Dent leaders and other activists murdered by Clandestine death a seemingly Blacka Edwhite class Between a tiny salvadoran elite and a vast impoverished has taken on shades of since land redistribution and other economic reforms have been in the centrist Jose Napoleon Duarte has been elected and his Chris Tian Democrat party has won control of the National the salvadoran right is in political but peace and Prosperity Are not at the average salvadoran is poorer today than in labor strikes Are peace talks with the rebels an Alliance of the political democratic revolutionary front for and the Mili tary Faramundo Marti National liberation front Feln stalled since two meetings in late the government says the rebels de Mand too much a merger of guerrilla and regular a scrapping of the constitutional the rebels say the Salva Doran military is blocking the military feels with its from the United to continue said a Cowkey lawyer and member of the for Feln political diplomatic in a Mexico City More than a Hal billion dollars in direct military assistance Over five years has built the salvadoran army into one of the regions most since when massed guerrilla units could Deal humiliating defeats to government the army has expanded from to More than its Fleet of troop carrying and attack helicopters has multiplied to the air Force can now throw the fearsome fire Power of ac47 gunship air planes against the medical evacuation by helicopter has helped Cut the army Deadato wounded ratio from onegin three to government air bombardment Routs Large numbers of civilians from guerrilla controlled human rights groups Call it a deliberate tactic to deprive the rebels of local but the armed forces say such dislocation is an unavoidable Cost of armed with information from sophisticated reconnaissance Salva Doran commanders have become More a tripling the number of anti guerrilla patrols in a permanent Offen it has forced the terrorists to break up into smaller general Adolfo Blan the salvadoran chief of said in an we give them no time to Supply to train or to recruit their morale has Blandon claims guerrilla strength has sunk from to because of casualties and an assertion that cannot be independently but the guerrillas clearly Are they have Laid hundreds of mines to catch army patrols along Moun Tain paths and have stepped up sabotage against the Christian Democrat govern ments politic economic project napping Small town blowing up a photo villager in Al Salvador seeking relatives among victims of a guerrilla Power disrupting their most daring blows Are now aimed at san where in june they gunned Down four embassy Marine guards and nine civilians in a Street Mas and in Early july freed a dozen comrades in an assault on a War damage estimates run up to 2 billion dollars further devastates a salvadoran Economy already battered by a five year depression largely caused by the collapse in world prices for Coffee and other salvadoran the War has uprooted 10 percent of Al Salvador 5 million Many now pack slums of Flimsy huts in the ravines that crisscross this As Many As More Are illegal immigrants in the United the rate of unemployment and under employment is unofficially estimated at More than 40 percent of the work wages have fallen far behind but the Duarte government can Promise i am not very optimistic on the nomic situation right longtime new York times map Duarte adviser Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes lamented in an the insurgent for Feln has latched onto these everyday de manding wage hikes and Price cuts for the who Range from disaffected Christian democrats leftward to old line Are trying to re build ties to student and peasant links largely severed when the antigovernment elements went under ground for the guerrilla but the pressures on the com 59yearold Duarte come not Only from the Many conservative Busi associating his Christian democrats with the leftist nationalization of still distrust the though bruised in last March elec the salvadoran right remains economically and its extremists remain capable of a violent backlash against the political resurfacing by left on july the righting secret anticommunist army issued a death list targeting 11 staff members and Stu dents at the University of Al Salvador and threatening to eradicate All the communists that Are taking Possession anew of the political Many of which Are believed carried out by Security sometimes numbered almost a month in they have since fallen to As few As 10 a Many the work of the but a resurgence now of rightist death squad activity could reverse the improving human rights record and jeopardize financial which has totalled almost 2 billion dollars since in the the salvadoran War May be settled Only in a wider Central american along with the centres War against Nicaragua leftist revolutionary the Consen sus Here and in Washington is that eco nomic advances will be As important As advanced weaponry in bringing final peace to Al