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Freedom of the press and political pluralism appear to have been respected to some extent; there are six opposition parties, for example, and a moderate representative of the private sector sits on the ruling five-man junta...
...dictator, General Carlos Humberto Romero. In a desperate attempt to pre-empt a San-dinista-style revolution-with Washington's encouragement-a group of moderate military officers seized power. Then, in an effort to satisfy peasant expectations and calm labor unrest, the five-man military-civilian junta made its own attempt at reform. It expropriated some large estates and nationalized the core of the country's banking system...
Even before the Archbishop's murder, the military's strong-arm attempts to maintain order had provoked the angry walkout of two civilians in the ruling junta. The junta averted collapse only when a leading moderate, Christian Democrat Party Leader José Napoleón Duarte, was persuaded to join it last March. Its hold on power, however, remains tenuous because it is caught in a vise between the right and the left. Earlier this year a rightist coup that would have ushered in a full-scale military takeover was quashed at the last minute, mostly because Washington...
...Warns Accountant Hector Figueros of San Salvador: "If there is no economic assistance, the country will collapse." Washington has offered $50 million in financial aid. While admitting that the outlook is bleak, State Department officials profess some heavily guarded optimism. Last week, for example, they were gratified by the junta's promise to set a timetable for "popular and free elections" within 30 days. Observes a Latin America expert: "The government has survived, and that in itself is miraculous...
...failure to set a specific date for the free elections it originally promised. When no timetable was announced at the anniversary celebration, leaders of the Private Enterprise Council (COSEP), among others, accused the government of "breaking a pledge." Responding to such criticism at a government press conference, Junta Member Sergio Ramirez insisted that the elections had "not been shoved off to one side," but rather that their timing was a "political decision." Earlier, Ramirez had told reporters in the southwestern town of Monimbó that he hoped to see national assembly elections within four years. All parties probably agreed with...