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...which CIA funds were directly funneled into the campaign of Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte. Said Helms: "The State Department and the CIA bought Mr. Duarte lock, stock and barrel." Yet the fact that the ultraconservative North Carolinian, who openly supported Duarte's rightist adversary Roberto d'Aubuisson, took the lead on the issue may have muted the impact of the revelation...
...purpose was to teach peasants about the evils of Communism and train them to watch out for subversives. But under the direction of a fistful of national guard intelligence officers, the group had deteriorated into a ruthless militia numbering between 50,000 and 100,000. One of the commanders: Roberto d'Aubuisson...
...drew quick rebuttals from the White House and congressional leaders. Asserting that Ronald Reagan had "full confidence" in Pickering, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes contended that the Administration had not taken sides in the runoff election between Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte and ARENA'S Roberto d'Aubuisson. But in a speech on the Senate floor, Helms expanded his attack, contending that the State Department "bent over backwards to facilitate a Duarte victory" and that a member of the U.S. embassy staff in San Salvador told ARENA officials the U.S. would not support...
...Roberto Trevino, the technical secretary of Mexico's National Nuclear Safety and Safeguards Commission, stresses that "there is no danger now." Nonetheless, two technicians are still searching for radioactive material on the Chihuahua-Ciudad Juárez highway, and the U.S. Department of Energy has conducted an airborne scan of the contaminated areas. The accident is a symptom of a larger problem, insists Antonio Ponce, a representative of Mexico's Nuclear Workers Union. He charges that the nuclear commission has been lax in cracking down on firms that handle radioactive material carelessly. Responds Trevino: "Their accusations are unfounded...
Washington's flagging spirits may receive a boost next Sunday, when El Salvador's voters go to the polls for the presidential runoff election between Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte and Roberto d'Aubuisson of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). Almost unnoticed amid the clamor over Washington's covert-action policies, the two rivals have been waging a venomous replay of the first-round campaign that ended on March 25, when Duarte won 43.4% of the 1.5 million votes cast, and D'Aubuisson...