World IN BRIEF : EL SALVADOR : Fighting Erupts as Talks Resume

Scores of leftist guerrillas and Salvadoran government troops were killed or wounded in fierce fighting that erupted as the two sides resumed U.N.-mediated peace talks in Mexico City, officials said. Representatives of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and the U.S.-backed rightist government of President Alfredo Cristiani have been meeting for the last 14 months in an effort to end the 11-year-old civil war. The rebels claimed in a radio broadcast that 153 government troops had been killed or wounded in daylong fighting in seven of the country’s 14 provinces.