the World - News from Feb. 11, 1985

In his weekly homily, Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas of San Salvador said that neither the government nor the leftist rebels are taking steps to humanize the nation’s five-year-old civil war. He cited “insurgent actions, general sabotage and kidnaping as well as counterinsurgency activity with the support of helicopter gunships and C-47 aircraft.” A humanization of the war was a goal agreed to by both the government and rebels during peace talks last year.