A member of the international media, Raul Beltran, upper left, interviews a Salvadoran army officer, second left, as people observe the dead bodies of civil defensemen in Verapaz, El Salvador, January 1, 1983. The civil defensemen were killed in an overnight attack by leftist FMLN guerrillas. Civil defense units in El Salvador were under military command and operated particularly in rural areas where guerrilla support was high.