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<text id=89TT1135>
<title>
May 01, 1989: World Notes:El Salvador
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 01, 1989 Abortion
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 51
World Notes
EL SALVADOR
Brutal Law of The Land
</hdr><body>
<p> Early-morning commuter traffic clogged the intersection
when the armored Cherokee station wagon eased to a halt at a red
light in downtown San Salvador. A moment later a man darted
forward, placed a bomb on the car roof, then fled just before
the explosion. The driver and a bodyguard escaped with minor
injuries. But the man in the back seat was killed. He was
Attorney General Roberto Garcia Alvarado, the highest-ranking
government official to be slain in a war that has claimed some
70,000 lives over the past nine years.
</p>
<p> President-elect Alfredo Cristiani blamed leftist guerrillas
for the assassination. Charging that the attack was designed to
destabilize his rightist government, which takes power on June
1, Cristiani said the F.M.L.N. rebels were "trying to provoke
a vengeful response, but they won't get it." Within a day,
however, the military arrested dozens of human-rights and union
activists, claiming that they belonged to groups affiliated with
the F.M.L.N.
</p>
<p> Salvadorans fear the violence will escalate. Five days
before the attack on Garcia, a bomb blast ripped through the
home of another official of Cristiani's Nationalist Republican
Alliance (ARENA), Vice President-elect Francisco Merino,
injuring one of Merino's seven children.
</p>
</body></article>
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