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Duarte not only returned, he returned to run for President again, this time against Roberto d'Aubuisson, a cashiered army major with a brutish past and some unlovely friends. The whispered threats resumed, but Duarte persevered through a March election and May runoff to capture 54% of the vote. The U.S. proclaimed Duarte's victory proof of El Salvador's progress toward democracy, but the new President cautioned against great expectations. "Are we going to arrive at perfection?" he asked. "It is a satisfying thought, but I think not. We are human...
...Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Michael P. Harris /Washington and Roberto Suro/Rome, with other bureaus
...conspirators had met with the assassin two dozen times over the past two months. They had paid him $100,000, plus $20,000 in expense fees, and promised him $200,000 more after the deed was done. His mission: kill Roberto Suazo Cordova, 57, President of Honduras, before mid-November. During the civil chaos that would presumably follow the assassination, the plotters intended to seize control of the Central American state. There was one catch: unknown to them, the hired assassin was working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...Roberto Suro/Rome
...Roberto C. Goizueta, 52, board chairman of Coca-Cola, the parent company of Columbia Pictures, on his lack of box-office acumen: "When I came out of [Columbia's] Ghostbusters, I thought, 'Gee, we're going to lose our shirts...