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...Affairs Committee granting the Reagan Administration's request for $60 million in necessary aid to El Salvador is yet another step in the wrong direction for U.S. policy in Central America. Symbolically the assistance constitutes a show of support for the recently elected Constituted Assembly headed by Roberto d'Aubuisson, the extreme right-wing leader who former U.S. ambassador Robert White calls a "pathological killer." Concretely, the guns and funds mean the prolongation of a bloody civil war that continues to ravage El Salvador...
...government named last month are filled by moderate Christian Democrats, the real power lies with d'Abuisson. As president of an assembly controlled by the extreme right, he has the power to veto any legislation. An ardent opponent of land reform and other measures to help the poor, d'Aubuisson hardly appears likely to back progressive proposals the government may put forth...
Though isolated from its main coalition partner on this issue, ARENA refused to give up the fight for a right-wing President. According to some Salvadoran observers, D'Aubuisson saw the struggle as a "machismo" exercise to prove that he was tougher than the generals and the U.S. embassy combined. The boyish-looking former intelligence officer was encouraged by the gaggle of mostly female supporters who packed the assembly gallery each day to shout their support and hoot down the opposition. Before Magaña's selection, ARENA Leader Mario Redaelli boasted that he had told...
...Aubuisson's forces got their way at the assembly's first working session on Monday. After teasing and baiting the Christian Democrats for 6½ hours, the rightists rammed through "Decree No. 3," granting broad governing powers to the assembly. In addition to naming the top provisional government officials, the right-dominated assembly will ratify all Cabinet appointments, exercise all legislative authority, write a new constitution and organize new national elections, perhaps as early as next year. In effect, the decree seemed likely to make D'Aubuisson and his coalition partners in the assembly the country...
Meanwhile, the army commanders stepped up their pressure in favor of Magaña's election. On Tuesday, D'Aubuisson and other political leaders were summoned to high-command headquarters and bluntly warned that the military might mount a coup if the right did not go along with the army's demands. Faced with that ultimatum, the politicians quickly hammered together the deal that led to the election of Magaña and his three Vice Presidents...