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...declared Democratic Senator J. Bennett Johnston, "perhaps because of the death squads and the lack of human rights in El Salvador." Replied Shultz: "I would have to just flatly disagree.' ' Some lawmakers hinted they might want to wait for the election results. If far-right Candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson wins, they say, he may scuttle efforts to extend land reforms and to crack down on the semiofficial death squads...
...Honduras), Shultz was the guest of Provisional President Alvaro Magaña at a lunch attended by the six candidates in the presidential race. Among them were the two front runners: former President José Napoleón Duarte, a Christian Democrat appreciated in Washington for his moderation, and Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance. D'Aubuisson has been accused of being linked to the right-wing death squads that have killed thousands of people in the country over the past four years; in a deliberate show of disapproval, the State Department last November...
...cleared by eight bodyguards, Salvadoran Constitutional Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson struck an aggressive pose last week as he approached a specially erected platform in the remote Salvadoran farming cooperative of Parra Lempa. D'Aubuisson wore white and a .38-cal. revolver, an emblem by which he is familiarly known. "Some people write that we are barbarians and bloody," he shouted to an audience of some 400 campesinos. "But today, you have seen that we stand for land reform. In return for your vote, we Nationalist Republicans promise to work for the people." The crowd cheered...
...President Raúl Alfonsín's first acts after his Dec. 10 inauguration was to decree that nine military junta members, including former Presidents Jorge Rafael Videla, Roberto Viola and Leopoldo Galtieri, be brought before the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Argentina's highest military court. In court-martial proceedings that began last week, they were accused of mass murder and torture of civilians. Alfonsin also signed a bill repealing an amnesty law proclaimed by the outgoing military government that would have absolved the armed forces of responsibility for the atrocities of the "dirty...
Alfonsín named nine generals and admirals, including three former Presidents: General Jorge Videla, who presided over the early days of the dirty war; General Roberto Viola, Videla's successor; and General Leopoldo Galtieri, author of the doomed attempt to capture the Falkland Islands last year. Alfonsín's decree called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which includes high-ranking officers from all three services, to pass "summary judgment" on the accused officers. Alfonsín announced that seven left-wing terrorists active during the '70s would be tried by civil courts...