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...however, is increasingly endangered by a wave of religious fundamentalism washing through the Shi'ite community. In June of 1982, an aide to Berri, Hussein Musawi, broke away to form a radical splinter group, the Islamic Amal. Musawi has since forged close links with Islamic Jihad, the Muslim extremist group that claimed responsibility for the attacks on the U.S. and French compounds last October, and the murder of Beirut's American University President Malcolm Kerr last month. Within the mainstream Amal, young Shi'ites have attacked occupying Israeli troops in southern Lebanon with the encouragement...
...Aubuisson's populist rhetoric contrasted sharply with his reputation as a right-wing extremist. The boyish-looking onetime Salvadoran police major, now 40, has consistently tried to delay implementation of U.S.-sponsored efforts at land reform in El Salvador. Last November, D'Aubuisson was refused an entry visa to the U.S., a rebuff linked to his alleged ties to the country's nefarious right-wing death squads. For the present, however, he wishes to appear a man of the people, and is running hard in a long-awaited presidential-election campaign that is crucial both...
...commissioners indicated that aid to the contras was a useful instrument of pressure against Nicaragua. Henry Cisneros, Democratic mayor of San Antonio, and Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, a Cuban-born Yale economics professor, objected. Diaz-Alejandro viewed aid to the contras as "likely to strengthen the most extremist sectors of the Sandinista leadership" against what would be perceived as an outside threat to Nicaragua. Cisneros urged that aid to rebels be suspended through 1985 to give the U.S. a chance to test hints by the Sandinistas that they might be willing to agree to some liberalization. Partly at the urging...
...Salvadorans "got the message" and complain that congressional efforts to force El Salvador to be certified every six months are self-defeating. Says Thomas R. Pickering, U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador: "For the first time we believe the government has responded to the call of treating right-wing extremist violence with the same degree of interest and activity and will as they have dealt with left-wing extremist violence." Last week Major José Ricardo Pozo and Lieut. Colonel Aristedes Alfonso Márquez, two senior intelligence officers with links to the death squads, were assigned abroad. Other officers...
...particularly in light of the fact that any comprehensive settlement would probably dictate offering at least some Jordanian territory for a Palestinian homeland. Furthermore, any settlement negotiated by Hussein would be meaningless if the PLO forces that now oppose Arafat did not endorse it--hardly a likely scenario. The extremist faction, through terrorist attacks, could easily disrupt tentative settlement...