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WORLD IN BRIEF : EL SALVADOR : Legislative Leader Unhurt in Attack

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Gunmen attacked a car carrying the head of El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly as government troops and leftist rebels clashed in several parts of the country, military sources and radio reports said. The official, Ricardo Alvarenga Valdivieso, was unhurt in the attack, which took place on a central San Salvador avenue, military sources said. He accused commandos of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front of carrying out the attack, three days after talks aimed at ending 10 years of civil war broke up.

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