WORLD IN BRIEF : EL SALVADOR : Guerrillas Admit Losing Hundreds
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
El Salvador’s leftist guerrillas have admitted for the first time that hundreds of their number have been killed in their five-week-old offensive. Radio Venceremos, the guerrillas’ mouthpiece, said 401 fighters of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front have been killed, among them a high-ranking officer named Dimas Rodriguez. The government estimates that up to half of the 6,000 to 10,000 rebels have been killed or wounded.
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