The World - News from April 9, 1987

Salvadoran rebels launched a new bid to shut down the nation’s highways, paralyzing transportation across most of the country and attacking passenger buses. At least one bus conductor was injured and at least five buses were damaged in the capital, San Salvador. In the town of Estanzuelas, 60 miles east of the capital, the rebels set up a roadblock and stopped vehicles to collect a “war tax,” residents said. The U.S.-backed military deployed troops along major highways in a vain attempt to prevent the rebels from disrupting traffic. The transportation shutdown is scheduled to last through Friday.