Word: aubuisson
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...first time that the State Department has bristled at foreign policy meddling by Helms, whose rhetorical bark outweighs his political bite. In 1984, when the Administration was successfully backing Moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte for the presidency of El Salvador, Helms loudly supported Far Right Candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson, who was reputedly linked to the country's death squads. More recently, Helms has assailed Mexican officials as being corrupt and dealing in drugs when State was trying to cool the cross-border feuding...
...links to right-wing death squads and that he was involved in the 1980 murder of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Just one year ago, he nearly defeated Christian Democrat Jose Napoleon Duarte in a closely fought presidential election. But last week the political career of Roberto ("Major Bob") D'Aubuisson, 42, was at least temporarily eclipsed, when he resigned as head of the ultra-rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which he founded four years...
...departure of the wiry, chain-smoking D'Aubuisson was announced at the annual party congress in San Salvador. It was engineered, according to one ARENA loyalist, by party leaders anxious to project a "more palatable image." D'Aubuisson was replaced by Alfredo Cristiani, a 37-year-old graduate of Georgetown University's business school who has held prominent posts in El Salvador's coffee and cotton growers' associations...
...vote provoked an equally dramatic and unexpected measure of support for Duarte from the 46,000-member Salvadoran armed forces. As ballot boxes began to arrive at election headquarters in the capital of San Salvador, right- wingers led by D'Aubuisson charged that the military had conspired with the Christian Democrats to perpetrate an electoral fraud. The protest stalled official vote counting pending a ruling by the Central Election Council, a three-man body dominated by conservatives. Fears arose that the election might be invalidated...
...opposition parties made a mistake, however, when they tried to turn the bitter, two-month election campaign into a referendum on Duarte. They dinned home the idea that a vote for Duarte's party was a vote for the F.M.L.N. rebels, and ARENA's D'Aubuisson habitually called the Christian Democrats "the green stain," referring to the party's traditional election color. But ARENA suffered a noticeable setback in February when one of D'Aubuisson's associates was arrested in Texas with eight suitcases containing $6 million in cash: the Christian Democrats seized on the event with full-page...