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...yield on demands that once seemed immutable. Cristiani abandoned the government's requirement that the guerrillas lay down their arms as a prerequisite to serious negotiations. While insisting that the rebels must eventually surrender their weapons, he said it was "not necessarily a first step." The President, whose rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) has strong links to El Salvador's armed forces, also offered publicly for the first time to consider a drastic reduction in military manpower. If the talks succeed, he said, "there would be a demobilization of the armed forces. We don't believe there's a need...
President-elect Alfredo Cristiani blamed leftist guerrillas for the assassination. Charging that the attack was designed to destabilize his rightist government, which takes power on June 1, Cristiani said the F.M.L.N. rebels were "trying to provoke a vengeful response, but they won't get it." Within a day, however, the military arrested dozens of human-rights and union activists, claiming that they belonged to groups affiliated with the F.M.L.N...
Fredy Cristiani, 41, sports an image of moderation but comes from a traditionally rightist background. He is the product of privilege and a 1968 graduate of Washington's Georgetown University who heads family-owned coffee and pharmaceutical businesses. Cristiani became active in ARENA a year before the 1984 presidential election. Its candidate then, party founder Roberto d'Aubuisson, was strongly opposed by the U.S. because of his alleged ties to the notorious death squads. Party leaders, eager to transform ARENA's tough image, chose Cristiani to personify the new nonviolent party...
...SALVADOR, El Salvador--The rightist Republican Nationalist Alliance yesterday claimed victory over the governing centrists in a presidential vote leftist rebels tried to thwart with attacks launched across the country...
...sure and we proclaim ourselves the victors," Roberto D'Aubuisson, the founder of the rightist party known as Arena, said at a news conference yesterday...