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...Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Just one year ago, he nearly defeated Christian Democrat Jose Napoleon Duarte in a closely fought presidential election. But last week the political career of Roberto ("Major Bob") D'Aubuisson, 42, was at least temporarily eclipsed, when he resigned as head of the ultra-rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which he founded four years...
While the arrests may influence the U.S. Congress, they have not impressed leftist critics and human rights groups, who are already complaining about such speedy attention to an incident involving U.S. Marines while thousands of cases involving rightist death-squad attacks on Salvadorans remain unsolved. More specifically, many Salvadorans want to see arrests made in the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who had been one of the region's most outspoken clergymen. Last week the government announced that it was reopening the investigation into Romero's murder...
...Three other agents, all men, were identified by the report as crew members of the Ouvea, a chartered yacht spotted in New Zealand waters shortly before the explosion. The fact that Mafart and the Ouvea crew members were all experts in underwater demolition raised new suspicions. Alain Madelin, a rightist member of the French Assembly, spoke for many doubters when he bluntly questioned "the need to dispatch frogmen to take photographs...
...Assembly seats, up from 24 in the previous Assembly. An estimated 37% of the ballots went to a coalition formed by the extreme right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), led by Duarte's nemesis, former Army Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, and the center-right National Conciliation Party. The rightist grouping is expected to take 22 to 25 seats; it previously held 33. The remaining seats will probably go to centrist and center-right splinter parties. In simultaneous local balloting, according to preliminary estimates, Duarte's party was winning in about 200 of 262 municipalities...
...bomb, planted by leftist guerrillas, had left sections of San Salvador, the capital, without power. The scene aptly symbolized the twin crises faced by Duarte. On the one hand, continued guerrilla warfare threatens to undermine the country's economy, institutions and hopes for democracy. At the same time, a rightist- authored election law is threatening to rob the moderate Duarte of effective power...