11.   But budget approval has been held up because the main opposition, the former guerrillas of the FMLN, want more flexibility in spending.

12.   But the accusation by the United States has also aggravated questions about the value of the corps, which was set up to keep former guerrillas out of trouble.

13.   But voters appear to have rejected the roughness and criminality associated with the former guerrilla fighters.

14.   By quitting, the former guerrilla had violated a central tenet of the movement, which is called the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.

15.   David Ervine, head of the Progressive Unionist Party at the peace talks, is a former guerrilla with the Ulster Volunteer Force, which is observing the cease-fire.

16.   Dollarization is also opposed by the FMLN, the left-wing party set up by former guerrillas.

17.   Each nation is run by former guerrilla leaders, and neither side is likely to back away now.

18.   First, they spoke dismissively of the Taliban, as fanatics who would suppress the freedoms northerners have enjoyed under the former guerrilla commanders who rule in the north.

19.   Five activists for the former guerrilla party have been killed during the campaign and Arena activists have been wounded.

20.   Former Marxist guerrillas already participate in governing coalitions in Venezuela and Bolivia, and they field mayors in many cities and towns in El Salvador.