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...country's extreme right, on the other hand, took strong exception to the peace mission. The secret Anti-Communist Army, one of El Salvador's death squads, named Duarte as a target for execution. The President was bitterly criticized by Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of the ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and a former presidential candidate. The La Palma meeting, D'Aubuisson said, was "a monologue between old buddies for the same cause: socialism." But D'Aubuisson is increasingly the odd man out in Salvadoran politics: conservative business elements in ARENA supported Duarte...
What little harsh reaction there was came mostly from Roberto d'Aubuisson, head of the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance and Duarte's bitter opponent in the March presidential elections. D'Aubuisson denounced the gesture as "a political show, a farce." He later adopted a more conciliatory posture after his vice-presidential running mate, Hugo Barrera, endorsed Duarte's notion of talks with the guerrillas and asked only that the President spell out "clear, definite and concrete means" toward a solution to the civil war. The right's quiet response was a sign of another Duarte...
...well the scant success brooked by moderates in sharing rule with Marxist guerillas. But at the same time the guerillas are understandably wary about answering Duarte's call to join elections; they know too well the propensity of the Salvadoran military to shoot up anyone to the left of Roberto D'Aubisson. Even Duarte's meeting with the rebels at La Palma has been met only with the snarls of the death squads, who vow death to those offering a middle way out of El Salvador's problems...
Reported by Walter Galling and Roberto Suro/Rome and Barry Kalb/New York, with other bureaus
...contest has developed into an uncommonly vicious, gloves-off slugfest. The Hunt organization early this summer ran a television advertisement linking Helms to the right-wing death squads in El Salvador. The commercial opened with the sound of gunfire and photos of massacred Salvadoran citizens. A picture of Salvadoran Roberto d'Aubuisson appeared, and a narrator identified him as "the man accused of directing those death squads." A picture of Helms then appeared, and the narrator said, "This is the man whose aides helped D'Aubuisson set up his political party in El Salvador . . . Now Jesse Helms...