Word: aubuisson
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...more to the dispute than Ochoa's reluctance to move to the diplomatic backwater of Uruguay. They speculated that Garcia had wanted to transfer the popular Ochoa in order to strengthen his own political ambitions as a potential challenger to right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson. Garcia has generally supported increased U.S. involvement in El Salvador and land reform, while D'Aubuisson has not. At the same time, U.S. officials feared that Ochoa, a military classmate of D'Aubuisson's, was being used by D'Aubuisson in order to force Garcia...
Immediately after Reagan arrived, he met for an hour at his hotel with a fellow visitor to Costa Rica, El Salvador's Magana. As interim President, Magafta is the most formidable check on Roberto d'Aubuisson, the provocative right-wing leader of the Nationalist Republican Alliance. The conversation with Magafta concerned human rights and Salvadoran efforts to curb the country's murderous counterrevolutionary squads. Said Reagan after the meeting: "I think that they are trying very hard and making great progress against great odds...
...Several reports by human rights monitoring groups show murders by the military have increased over the last few months. Land reform and other positive steps undertaken by the Duarte regime that preceded the present government have been stopped, and in some cases reversed. And extreme right leader Roberto d'Aubuisson has said he will not talk with the guerilla opposition...
...human rights. The next committee hearing on the matter will take place in late January. But Congressional leaders have made it quite clear that this time, they won't back a request to give El Salvador more guns. So the Administration has tried to tighten the reins on d'Aubuisson...
...pressing for the national reconciliation that many elements of Salvadoran society are now ready to consider, Washington has encountered yet another daunting obstacle: the fanatical intransigence of Roberto d'Aubuisson's ARENA party. Although D'Aubuisson indicated only a month ago that he accepted the prospect of bringing the rebellious left back into the country's political fold by 1984, some observers suspect that he has lost control of the more extreme members of his party. Says a U.S. official: "Every time D'Aubuisson does something responsible, the crazies around him get upset...