Word: aubuisson
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...fighting continues, Defense Minister Garcia and Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson, the winner of the March elections, remain at odds over the country's course. In defiance of U.S. wishes, D'Aubuisson has tried to obstruct El Salvador's two-year-old land-reform program. Garcia has argued that the U.S. Congress may reduce much needed military and economic aid to El Salvador if the land-reform program is not maintained. But Congress has grown increasingly skeptical about the right-wing government's desire to transfer land titles to peasants. The next test...
...constituent assembly suspended a key element of the country's land reform, thereby raising grave doubts about the future of the program that was initiated only two years ago with U.S. backing. The vote was a victory for the right-wing coalition led by Major Roberto d'Aubuisson. Declared former President José Napoleon Duarte, whose Christian Democrats opposed the measure: "It was strictly a political move to attack the poor people of El Salvador...
...acres from their landlords. The suspension, for one growing season (a year for cotton, three to four years for sugar cane), was aimed at ensuring high production of two of the country's leading exports at a time of economic strain. But in a surprise move, D'Aubuisson's coalition broadened the exemption to include grain and cattle land as well...
...vote was received with dismay in Washington. Under a measure passed by Congress late last year, aid dollars cannot flow to El Salvador unless the Administration certifies every six months that the economic and political reforms are being carried out. The State Department is still giving D'Aubuisson the benefit of the doubt, but some members of Congress are not. Senator Paul Tsongas, a leading critic of U.S. policy in El Salvador, called the suspension of part of the land reforms a "breaking of faith." Said Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes, chairman of the House Inter-American Affairs Subcommittee: "These...
...Aubuisson professes not to be concerned by the U.S. reaction. "I do not answer to the [U.S.] Congress, only to the Salvadoran people," he said last week. Perhaps, but he still needs Congress's support if his country is to receive any of the $128 million in economic aid and $60 million in military assistance requested by the Reagan Administration...