clCOUNTRY: EL SALVADOR SUBJ: SITUATION REPORT AS OF 1~30 HOURS LOCAL TI~E • 001: 16 NOVE~BER 1989 ~y AR~OREO VEHICLE TRAVELING ON THE ROAO FRO~ ILOPANGO AIR BASE INTO SAN SALVADOR WAS STRUCK BY A RIFLE ROUND WHILE PASSING NEAR THE SOYAPANGO AREA. THE U.S. E~BASSY OF THE CAR'S DRIVER WERE UNHAR~EO. AND THE TRE~SURY POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN SAN SALVADOR. SEPARAHU/ THE FIRST INFANTRY BRIGAOE HAS PQSITIQN[Q FOUR 105~~ HOWITZERS NORTH OF THE FIRST BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS TO SUPPORT~ FIGHTING IN THE NORTHERN SU3UR3S OF SAN SALVADOR. ~ M¥¥&11•· DURING FIGHTING IN SOYAPANGO ON THE AFTERNOON OF 15 NOVE~BER, AIR FORCE EL!ME~TS SUFFERED EIGHT WQUNOEO ANO CONFIR~EO 60 INSURGENTS KILLEJ. AIR fQqCE UNITS R!ENTERE:l SOYAPANGO IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS Of 16 NOVEMBER. SUPPORT[~ BY AIR FORCE H[LICOPTER G"NSniPS. THE AIR fORCE BELIEVES THAT INSURGENTS WHO HAC 3E EN HOLDING PQS IT IONS IN URBAN I lAC ION LOS CONACASTES IN SOYAPANGO HAO MOVED TO COLONIA GU~OALUPE. THE BELLOSO I~E:JIA.TE .[ACTION INFANTRY BATTALION IS STILL PQSI~!. *~ ~ ! y, BUT 1S NOT ENGAGD IN COMBAT· ~fF . E INTERNATIONAL REJ :ROSS HAS CALLED fOR A TRUCE TO ALLOW THE REO CROSS ~NO OTHER HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS TO EVACUATE WOUNOEO fROM THE CONFLICTIVE AREA~.S.T"'"'. •< ". ~ON THAT A TRUCE WILL BE CALLED. ~ 6. SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO ((CRISTIANI)) HAS AGAIN CONOE~ED CUBAN ANO NICARAGUAN GOVERN~ENT SUPPORT TO THE f~LN. CRISTIANI CLASSIFIED THE f~LN ATTACKS AS ACTS Of TERRORISM AGAINST DEFENSELESS PEOPLE ANO STATED THAT IT IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE THAT THESE TWO GOVERN~ENTS CAN SUPPORT SUCH ACTS. HE HAS AGAIN CALLED UPON THE CIVILIAN POPULATION TO RE~AIN CAL~ AND TO CONTINUE COOPERATING WITH THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT. ALSO, COSTA RICAN PRESIDENT OSCAR ((ARIAS)) HAS CONDE~EO THE fMLN OfFENSIVE ANO IS URGING THE F~LN TO GO TO CARACAS ON 20 NOVEMBER ANO TO RESU~E THE NEGOTIATIQY PROCESS BEGUN IN SEPTE~BER. 7. AS OF THE EVENING OF 15 NOVE~BER, AN UNOETER~INEO NUMBER Of INSURGENTS WERE IN A GULLY IN COLONIA LAS MAGNOLIAS IN THE AYUTUXTEPEQUE/CUSCATANCINGO AREA AND WERE USING THE GULLY AS A STAGING AREA. THEY APPEARED TO BE ABLE TO CO~E ANO GO FROM THIS AREA AT WILLj THERE WAS NO COMBAT IN THE AREA. ~~~!!l:~i!~~ ~i!ii~~~~THE INSURGENTS APPEARED TO BE IN CONTROL OF CIUOAO DELGADO AS OF LATE 15 NOVEMBER. THE INSURGENTS SEEMED TO BE ENTERING AND LEAVING CIUOAO DELGADO AT WILL. ALSO, A ME~BER OF THE SALVADORAN GREEN CROSS STATED THAT THE INSURGENTS B. ESAF ELEMENTS BATTLING INSURGENTS IN "EJICANOS ARE REPORTING THAT PROGRESS AGAINST THE INSURGENTS IS SLOW. CIVILIANS IN "EJICANOS ANO OTHER NORTHERN SAN SALVADOR SUBURBS ARE TRYING TO LEAVE THE AREAS; HOWEVER, THE INSURGENTS ARE NOT ALLOWING THEM TO LEAVE. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EL SALVADOR, ELE"ENTS OF THE FIRST BRIGADE FOUND A CAR FILLED WITH "OLOIOV COCKTAILS. THE CAR LOOKED LIKE A PRESS CAR • ... THE CAR HAO THE LETTERS "T.V." IN ITS WINDOW. MOST PKt::.) fuMENTS IN EL SALVADOR PUT THE LETTERS "T.V." IN THEIR CAR WINDOWS TO CLE~.·:u::~!\FY THEMSELVES TO BgTH THE GOVERN"ENT AND THE INSURGENTS~~i¥ 98'% *•• 9. ON 15 NOVEMBER, PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY AR"Y LEADER IN VIlLALOBOS" SPOKE DURING A "RADIO VENCEREMS" BROt~ST (;:t~~2~~~a~CENTS TO CONTINUE FIGHTING. -'?·,S8t4':;'~ .~_:. ,.. :X.·. ' .... ,,'. ( ' '\. r . .