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...Salvador's civilian-military regime expressed confidence last week that it had succeeded in repelling the vaunted "final offensive" of the country's revolutionary left. José Napoleon Duarte, the shrewd Christian Democratic politician who heads the junta, attributed the left's setback to its failure to win popular support. Duarte offered amnesty to any guerrillas willing to lay down their arms, pledged to move forward on the junta's promises of social reforms and free elections, and toured the provinces like a glad-handing political campaigner...
Later, the military coalition did hand over the presidency to Antonio Morales Erlich and Jose Napoleon Duarte. They too called for massive land reform and control of the military forces. The United States announced its support for this "reform-minded" coalition...
...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...
...good many former Presidents were known as "The" some thing- "The Napoleon of the Stump" (Polk); "The Sage of Wheatland" (Buchanan); "The Squire of Hyde Park." Perhaps Mr. Reagan will come to be known as "The Squire of Rancho del Cielo," or "The Gipper," in reference to his second most memorable movie role, or in reference to the first, "The Rest of Me." New York Builder Donald Trump is called "The Donald" by Mrs. Trump, so we might call Mr. Reagan "The Ronald." It is too early to tell...
...study Walt Whitman is to examine 19th century America, amidst its industrial clacking, economic growing pains, and political and social tension. Justin Kaplan appropriately spends a good part of his splendid biography creating the contexts for Whitman's experiences. On May 31, 1819, Kaplan tells us, Napoleon was dying of cancer on St. Helena, Virginian James Monroe was strutting about a rebuilt White House in knee breeches, a financial panic was threatening the young nation--and Walter and Louisa Whitman had their second child, named after his father but always called "Walt" by members of the family...