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...three-phase land reform was originally proposed within months of the October 1979 coup that installed a reformist civilian-military junta. Phase 1 of the reform, implemented at the time Duarte joined the junta in March 1980, expropriated 426 private Salvadoran estates that exceeded 1,235 acres. Phase 2, calling for the takeover of farms ranging in size from 247 to 1,235 acres, encountered strong opposition from the right, including the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) led by Roberto d'Aubuisson. Under a compromise adopted last December, Phase 2 now applies only to farms larger than 605 acres...
...reformist military officers ousted Molina's successor, General Carlos Humberto Romero Mena. A year later Duarte became the junta President. He helped begin a sweeping land reform and the nationalization of local banks and export industries, thereby further alienating the oligarchy. Conservatives began calling Duarte a "watermelon"-Christian Democratic green on the outside, red on the inside-especially during the recent election campaign, when he declared that he favored a national "dialogue." What Duarte meant was that he would seek to create a climate in which any rebels who wanted to reject violence could return to take part...
...wing political organizations alarmed by the rising level of anarchy. Out of this explosion of terror came a death squad trademark that is branded forever in the psyche of the nation: mano bianco, a pair of painted hands splattered across a door or wall announcing a fresh kill. The reformist coup of 1979 brought an official end to ANSESAL and ORDEN, but by then most army battalions and police brigades had their own intelligence departments devoted to tracking down and often eliminating "subversives." Present and former members of these crews, along with goons hired by private groups, are responsible...
Powers anticipates that Law will do the same for Boston and adds that he sees the new archbishop as a mediator between the reformist American school of thought and the traditional Vatican view on the matter...
Flynn enters City Hall on a reformist platform similar to that of the young White. He supports a "linkage" arrangement which would make downtown developers contrubute specific sums to aid neighborhood development...