The World - News from March 24, 1986
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El Salvador’s armed forces have rejected a guerrilla offer of an Easter season truce, prompting sharp criticism from Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas. “One would have thought that for Christian conviction--at least on Good Friday--there would have been a cease-fire,” said the prelate, who as an intermediary has brokered previous truces. Gen. Adolfo Blandon, the Salvadoran chief of staff, rejected a truce because of “repeated violations by the terrorists,” a reference to the leftist rebels seeking to topple President Jose Napoleon Duarte’s government.
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