The World - News from June 4, 1989
Leftist rebels in El Salvador lifted a ban on road travel but rejected peace talks proposed by the newly inaugurated rightist president, Alfredo Cristiani. The Farabundo Marti Liberation Front called Cristiani’s proposal “an offer of surrender.” The rebels gave no reason for lifting the ban on travel. But it came a day after Cristiani, who was sworn in Thursday, called for more regional efforts to end the nation’s nine-year-old civil war. The rebels’ traffic ban in protest of Cristiani’s inauguration had paralyzed traffic nationwide since Wednesday.
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