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...partial veto of a proposed election law was constitutional. Court President Francisco Jose Guerrero escorted Duarte, flanked by three of his chief ministers, up four flights of steps to the court chambers. As it happened, the court elevator was not working because hours earlier a bomb, planted by leftist guerrillas, had left sections of San Salvador, the capital, without power. The scene aptly symbolized the twin crises faced by Duarte. On the one hand, continued guerrilla warfare threatens to undermine the country's economy, institutions and hopes for democracy. At the same time, a rightist- authored election law is threatening...
...progress that Duarte has been making since his inauguration last June. Since then, the number of murders attributed to death squads has dramatically decreased, and extreme right-wing opposition to civilian rule has appeared to diminish. In addition, last October's meeting at La Palma between Duarte and Marxist guerrilla leaders, followed six weeks later by a second round of talks in Ayagualo, held out hope that the bloody Salvadoran civil war, which has claimed upwards of 50,000 lives over the past five years, might just be ended...
...recent indications are that Duarte's momentum has been halted. Since the new year, there have been at least eleven assassinations, nearly all by leftist gunmen. Further negotiations between the government and representatives of the leftist guerrilla groups are unlikely until after the elections. Reason: mounting right-wing opposition to a negotiated settlement. Rebel leaders, of course, contend that the breakdown of the peace talks means the Salvadoran military is now effectively back in control. According to Ruben Zamora, the bearded vice president of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, the guerrilla movement's political arm, "Duarte has no power...
...face daunting difficulties in the worldwide < contest with the U.S. Moscow's allure in the Third World has faded badly as African governments failed to achieve rapid economic growth--or much sense of social well-being--by following Marxist policies. The U.S.S.R. is still bogged down in a bloody guerrilla war in Afghanistan, of which no end is in sight. Says one Reagan Administration official: "Ten years ago, most insurgencies around the world were directed against the West. Now many of them are against the Soviet Union or its allies." He has in mind not only the Afghanistan rebellion...
Diplomatically, however, the guerrilla alliance has been holding a strong hand: the Heng Samrin regime has never been recognized as legitimate by the United Nations. The Khmer Front and the Sihanouk forces have the backing of the U.S. and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines). A sustained Vietnamese attack on the front thus weakens a non-Communist alternative to the Heng Samrin government. By themselves, the stronger and more aggressive Khmer Rouge are far less likely to draw international sympathy to the resistance cause, since they are still remembered by the rest...