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...from Roberto d'Aubuisson, head of the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance and Duarte's bitter opponent in the March presidential elections. D'Aubuisson denounced the gesture as "a political show, a farce." He later adopted a more conciliatory posture after his vice-presidential running mate, Hugo Barrera, endorsed Duarte's notion of talks with the guerrillas and asked only that the President spell out "clear, definite and concrete means" toward a solution to the civil war. The right's quiet response was a sign of another Duarte triumph: during his four-month tenure, the President...
...Salvadorans prepared to head for the polls last Sunday in the second and final round of presidential elections, the candidates launched the usual last-minute blitz of charges and countercharges. But one campaigner found some surprising ammunition. Hugo Barrera, the vice-presidential nominee of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), made public the text of a letter from Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina to President Reagan demanding the removal of the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Thomas Pickering. Helms accused Pickering of manipulating the elections, specifically by urging the country's provisional President, Alvaro Maga...
...armed men who announced our arrival by radio. Such precautions are not for nothing: D'Aubuisson got a bullet in the back during the 1982 campaign. Of the six people I found with him, three had been victims of assassination attempts, among them the vice-presidential candidate, Hugo Barrera, who was shot as he left his factory during a strike in October...
...business interests," as one Hispanic activist put it, but White is remembered as the attorney general who fought bilingual education and public schooling for children of illegal aliens. Earlier, as Texas secretary of state in 1975, White opposed extension of the Voting Rights Act. Says Roy Barrera Jr., a Hispanic judge appointed by Clements: "The young Hispanics are not locked into the Democrats...
Owner Charles T. Wilson Jr., a Mexico City businessman, did not know that his colt would even be entered in the Belmont until Barrera told him of his plans after the Pennsylvania Derby. Said Wilson: "I've been in racing long enough to try to be dumb about these things. An owner's principal function is to pay his bills." With a fat Belmont purse of $170,580 safely tucked away, paying the bills will be no problem...