Word: aubuisson
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...choice of leaders before the Salvadorans is by no means clear. After four years of internecine conflict and 50,000 deaths, the people of El Salvador desperately desire order and a halt to the bloodletting. Voters may be tempted then to choose the toughest-talking candidate, Roberto d'Aubuisson, the reactionary leader of the National Republican Alliance and a man linked at least indirectly to the right wing death squads...
Shultz, who has shown flashes of temper in recent months, listened with increasing impatience as Illinois Democrat Sidney Yates joined the assault. He read aloud part of a New York Times story reporting that a former high military official in El Salvador had named Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing candidate for President in the March 25 election, as a leading figure in the death squads that have been murdering civilians. "How many killers have been brought to trial?" Yates asked. Shultz could not cite one, but argued that the murders had decreased in number. If death-squad activity...
...full House Appropriations Committee seemed unlikely to do so. Many of the legislators want to wait until they see who wins the election before turning more money over to El Salvador. Their main worry is that a victorious D'Aubuisson might end up the beneficiary...
...Senator J. Bennett Johnston, "perhaps because of the death squads and the lack of human rights in El Salvador." Replied Shultz: "I would have to just flatly disagree.' ' Some lawmakers hinted they might want to wait for the election results. If far-right Candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson wins, they say, he may scuttle efforts to extend land reforms and to crack down on the semiofficial death squads...
Guerrero's chances of winning an outright majority are virtually nil. In the 1982 Constituent Assembly elections, the P.C.N. took only 18.6% of the vote, vs. 40.7% for the Christian Democrats and 29.1 % for ARENA. But it seems unlikely that D'Aubuisson or Duarte will be capable of winning a majority either, which means that complex political maneuvering may be involved in choosing the new chief of state. The wheeling and dealing have already begun. Two conservative splinter parties announced last week that they had held talks on joining ranks with ARENA, and Guerrero has been carrying...