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...Quinonez to begin talks on forming their own coalition. Led by D'Aubuisson's ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), with its 29% of the vote and 19 assembly seats, the five parties were held together mainly by personal animosity to Duarte. "The fact is," explained one foreign diplomat, "Duarte represents change in a society that resisted change for 50 years and was entirely geared to the right's benefit." The rightists hold Duarte responsible for the country's acute economic crisis and for the land redistribution program, which has broken up the large private estates...
...official: "We are doing our best to encourage the good guys and keep the bad guys down." The U.S. made it clear to the five parties that Congress would simply not send any more guns to a country run by a repressive right-wing coalition. Said one U.S. diplomat bluntly: "They cannot pursue the war against the guerrillas without the U.S. They know what our price for that...
...military governments that ruled the country before the 1979 coup, the loosely organized P.C.N. seems to be divided into two main factions: a rightist wing, led by Secretary-General Raul Molina Martinez, and a moderate wing, led by ex-Army Colonel Roberto Escobar Garcia, whom one foreign diplomat calls "the best man they...
...P.C.N. at first lined up with D'Aubuisson's coalition. But the Christian Democrats hoped to win over some moderate deputies. One problem, said a foreign diplomat, is that both Molina and Escobar Garcia were "talking to different people and saying different things. [The P.C.N.] is not being led by any one person. Trying to understand them is like tying up with a lot of horses. The party is wavering." Another wavering group, the Democratic Action Party, meanwhile, was said to have broken with ARENA and to have withdrawn its two deputies from the rightist coalition...
There seems to be little hope for serious talks with the Cubans. Said one U.S. diplomat: "They have expressed not the slightest desire to address anything we wanted to talk about." But the U.S. is likely to negotiate with Nicaragua's Sandinista leaders, who are eager for discussion, as soon as the contending Salvadoran politicians finish what the voters started, by forming a government . - - By Thomas A. Sancton...