The World - News from Feb. 7, 1985
Leftist Salvadoran guerrillas, armed with pistols and hand grenades, raided seven commercial radio stations in San Salvador and forced them to broadcast a revolutionary message. The taped messages said that guerrillas hold one-third of El Salvador and have inflicted 20,000 casualties on the U.S.-supported government army in the past five years of fighting. The rebels forced one of the stations, Radio ABC, to play a taped message for 30 minutes before police arrived and stopped the broadcast.
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