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Duarte's Christian Democratic Party last week resolved a long-running feud over who its presidential candidate should be. The winner: Fidel Chavez Mena, a former Planning Minister, who defeated a challenge by the longtime party boss, Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes. Although Duarte and the candidate are not on the best of terms, Rey Prendes' close ties to corrupt officials led the U.S. embassy to favor Chavez Mena. "It is almost like Duarte is already completely forgotten," says a European diplomat. "It is really quite chilling...
Since then, the Christian Democrats have splintered over who should inherit the leadership. Duarte tried to unite the party behind a trusted adviser, Abraham Rodriguez, but found no echo; instead a divided rank and file lined up behind two former Cabinet ministers, Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes and Fidel Chavez Mena. Rey Prendes is favored to receive the presidential nomination, but his candidacy will be tarnished by corruption charges that have dogged the Duarte administration...
...that heady quest and its horrifying finale has become an occasion for a subdued outpouring of nostalgia, bespeaking a sense that something is missing in the year of Bush and Dukakis. A week ago, about 800 people -- led by such old colleagues as Paul Schrade, Arthur Schlesinger, Cesar Chavez and Frank Mankiewicz -- gathered in Los Angeles to reflect on Kennedy's legacy. Said Jack Newfield, author of Robert Kennedy: A Memoir: "If you took the best half of Jackson and the best half of Dukakis, you would have half of Robert Kennedy...
...Chavez said many other methods of teachingEnglish have proved to be effective, and thegovernment should not require bilingual educationby federal...
...Blaming Chavez and U.S. English for "reducingbilingual education to a narrow political issue,"Crawford said the federal government must use itseducation policy to preserve the culture of ethnicminorities. He said that scrapping federalrequirements for bilingual education would hurtthe students' education as a whole because it"would produce exactly what [bilingual education]has tried to avoid"--the problem of losing ethnicidentity...