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...Napoleon Duarte, President of the U.S.-backed civilian-military junta, promised an "extensive investigation" into the murders of Hammer, Pearlman and Viera, but was vague about what interests in the strife-torn country might have been responsible. At first, he said the killings were "an action of the extreme right," but then he added, "Of course, it could be the left." Officials believed that Viera, 39, had been the killers' main target, that the two Americans might have been shot solely because they happened to be with...
...bitter discovery that God does not exist has destroyed the concept of fate" or "Death is a thief that never turns up by surprise." Devotees of the mixed metaphor will prize: "Riding on this illusion you hurled yourself against the windmills of your chosen dragon." Although Fallaci's junta villains are as gross as editorial cartoons, it is difficult to separate dragon, windmills and Quixote. For throughout this catalogue of misery, Fallaci never makes the right choice. When the account needs historical analysis she offers tantrums; when suffering cries out for a tragic spirit she substitutes bathos...
Meanwhile, the most liberal member of El Salvador's five-man ruling junta, Colonel Adolfo Arnoldo Majano, was removed last week after a 300-to-4 no-confidence vote by his own military officers. Majano had led the coup against Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero in October 1979. He was also an architect of the junta's ambitious land-reform and banking-nationalization programs, which made him a bitter enemy of the right...
...round-the-clock negotiating sessions to reshuffle the government. At week's end Christian Democrat Leader José Napoleón Duarte emerged as a civilian President, while Colonel Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez was made vice president and commander in chief of the armed forces. The existing junta will now act simply as a legislative body. Duarte, a prominent liberal, has been a key moderating force in the junta. Gutierrez has a reputation as a hard-lining conservative...
...rejection of the constitution is not likely to bring early changes to Uruguay's government. The reins will remain in the hands of a 25-member Council of State headed by President Aparicio Méndez and composed of relatively faceless civilian technocrats; a 28-member junta of generals-top army, navy and air force officers-will exercise the real power behind the council. Meanwhile, the military must start anew to shape a constitution more acceptable to Uruguayans...