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...commission's head is former Law Professor Guillermo Ungo, 49, a prominent Social Democrat who served for three months on the original junta that was installed after the overthrow of the military regime in October 1979. In the 1972 elections Ungo was the vice-presidential running mate of centrist Christian Democrat José Napoleon Duarte. A member of the Socialist International, alongside such respected Social Democrats as Willy Brandt, Ungo is said to be planning to tour foreign capitals in an attempt to muster broader democratic support for the revolution...
...Discrediting centrist spokesmen of opposition as puppets of hardline guerrilla leaders...
...intensity of the feud has few parallels in other democracies. In one corner is aggressive, right-of-center Shimon Peres, 57, the former Defense Minister who is trying to retain the Labor Party leadership he inherited in 1977. In the other is cautious, centrist, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 58, who was discredited by scandal 3½ years ago, but has been battling ever since to regain the leadership. Peres and Rabin have served in Cabinets together, and they even live within two blocks of each other in the same Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Aviv...
...when the two emerged as the most promising of a new generation of Israeli leaders. A career soldier for 27 years, Rabin was a former chief of staff who had made his mark with patient staff planning; he enjoyed the support of the Labor Party's broad, centrist faction. Peres, a political activist since the age of 16, was a precocious, widely traveled administrator who had been named director-general of the Defense Ministry at 29, and soon became a dominant figure in the party's right wing...
...ruling junta, in power for little more than a year, seems shakier than ever. Divided between centrist reformers and military hardliners, it is unable to stop the bloodshed and appears to be increasingly vulnerable to a rightist coup. Many Salvadorans are resigned to the inevitability of civil war. At the moment, the government has about 15,000 men under arms, while the leftists have perhaps 5,000 active guerrillas; the military odds, in short, are roughly the same as the ones that the late dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle faced in Nicaragua at the start of the Sandinista rebellion...