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War's end in El Salvador

But peace needs time to grow

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A COUPLE of million exiles, 75,000 dead, a nation of 5½m people impoverished—and many of the troubles El Salvador started fighting about more than a decade ago remain almost as troublesome as they were then. The peace declared for February 1st is profoundly welcome, not least as evidence of how useful the United Nations can be. But what was all the misery for?

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