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...doubt that some of El Salvador President José Napole??n Duarte's detractors, who complain because he negotiated with his daughter's kidnapers [WORLD, Nov. 4], might allow a relative to be slaughtered rather than give in to guerrilla demands. But I suspect their toughness would quickly give way to pleading if their own heads were placed on the block. John White Brookhaven, Miss. Faltering Philippines...
...warned of an imminent escalation in the country's six-year civil conflict. The bishops pointed with concern to the "stagnation and deterioration" of the peace talks initiated last October between rebels of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front and the government of Salvadoran President José Napole??n Duarte. Concluded the letter: "If the dialogue fails, no other path will remain for El Salvador but total destruction, with a very elevated cost in human lives and a possibly irreparable deterioration of national unity...
...chubby figure dressed in blue jeans and a wind-breaker bolted from the chopper, dashed across the pitch and threw herself into the arms of her weeping mother. A moment later, Inés Guadalupe Duarte Durán was swept into the embrace of her tear-choked father, President José Napole??n Duarte, for whom the nation's civil war had lately become an agonizing personal ordeal...
...process to choose that battered country's first freely elected President in 50 years drew to an end late last week. As up to 1.7 million voters prepared to trek to the polls, the seven-man race was still considered a toss-up between the controversial front runners, José Napole??n Duarte, 58, of the center-left Christian Democratic Party (P.D.C.), and Roberto d'Aubuisson, 40, leader of the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance, known as ARENA. There was a good chance that neither candidate would win the outright majority required for election, and that a runoff vote would be necessary...
...seems to be losing in the struggle to retain the loyalty of the people. Many Salvadorans are preparing to follow whichever side ultimately wins out. Nor does there seem to be much enthusiasm about the March 28 election, which Washington hopes will produce a solid majority for President José Napole??n Duarte's moderate Christian Democrats. A veteran politician who returned from exile and joined the junta, Duarte is essential to the political solution that U.S. policymakers are banking on. Even if the guerrillas do not succeed in disrupting the balloting, the results could be fatal for the moderates...