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...give the election credibility, the Sandinistas need a bona fide challenge. On the other hand, the only formidable opponent to the regime may provide more of a challenge than the government cares to see. Arturo Cruz, 54, a former Sandinistation parties. The government leadership has tried to discredit Cruz in the past. Nonetheless, after considerable debate, Interior Minister Tomas Borge grudgingly announced last week that Cruz would be allowed to return to Nicaragua from self-imposed exile in Washington, D.C., and could present himself as a presidential candidate. But, Borge admitted, "I'm personally not going to send...
Whether or not polls affect the outcome of elections, candidates faring poorly in polls have traditionally sought to discredit them. During the 1968 presidential campaign, when most polls showed Hubert H. Humphrey trailing Richard M. Nixon by a wide margin, Humphrey once called a press conference to change that the Gallup Poll the views of Blacks. More recently, Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King complained that he underperformed in polls that failed to include newly registered voters among those surveyed...
...more inopportune moment: Hassan happened to be host to the 42-nation Islamic Conference summit meeting in Casablanca. Embarrassed and angered, the King went on television early last week and blamed an improbable conspiracy of "professional Marxist, Zionist and Khomeinist" agitators for fomenting the violence in order to discredit the conference...
...pressure on El Salvador or Guatemala is not clear. The roles that regional negotiations and the U.S. military must play in bringing about stability are also open questions. But whatever the specific issues that remain to be resolved, the White House will find it difficult to ignore or discredit the Kissinger panel's conclusions...
American hopes and rebel aspirations will ultimately collide when El Salvador goes to the polls on March 25 to choose a President. "Elections are the key," says Pickering. "The government has a real opportunity to increase its support." But the guerrillas are equally determined to sabotage and discredit this attempt at U.S.-style democracy. The presidential campaign between U.S. -backed centrists and the reactionary right will be bitter and divisive. Whether a fair election can be held at all will depend on an army that has yet to prove its valor in battle or its commitment to change. - By John...