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...rightist maneuver leaves the winners in doubt...
...seats in the 60-member assembly, which will name an interim President, write a new constitution and organize national elections. The Christian Democrats hoped that after their strong showing they would easily be able to control the assembly by forming a coalition with one or two of the rightist parties. But to the consternation of Duarte and his U.S. supporters, the rightists suddenly began to form their own ruling coalition under the leadership of cashiered National Guard Officer Roberto d'Aubuisson, 38, a fanatical anti-Communist who has been linked by his enemies with the country's right...
Druckman thus joined forces last week with the firebrand Geula Cohen and her two colleagues in the tiny, radical rightist Tehiya Party. In 1980 Cohen wrote legislation calling for de facto annexation of Arab-dominated East Jerusalem. Late last year she tabled a motion to annex the occupied Golan Heights. She would also like to annex the West Bank, but her main mission at the moment is to block the Sinai withdrawal. Says she: "The people of Israel are nervous. This national trauma will stay in our hearts and minds forever...
...Christian Democrats' main campaign tactic recently has been to play on popular fears of their chief opponent, D'Aubuisson's right-wing party, ARENA. A recent Christian Democrat documentary, entitled D'Aubuisson Naked, showed film clips of the rightist leader making public threats against political and religious figures who were later assassinated or attacked. Images of the bodies or funerals were spliced into the film. Among the victims: the late Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who was assassinated by a gunman while saying Mass at the altar on March...
...strategy backfired. Outraged by the changes, rightist death squads and maverick security forces stepped up their terror campaign, murdering men and women suspected of sympathizing with the left. In retaliation, the rebel bands, whose total strength is now estimated to number between 4,000 and 6,000, escalated their attacks on military and economic targets, while the 14,000-man armed forces struggled vainly to crush the insurgency...