The World - News from Aug. 4, 1989
El Salvador’s leftist rebels claimed that they caused more than 100 casualties and downed an army helicopter in their latest offensive against the rightist government, particularly its economic policies. An armed forces spokesman denied that a helicopter was shot down and called the rebel report “a lie.” President Alfredo Cristiani’s administration has increased transport and electricity prices and removed price controls on about 230 non-basic goods as part of a free-market plan to revive the country’s war-ravaged economy.
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