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...newly elected constituent assembly suspended a key element of the country's land reform, thereby raising grave doubts about the future of the program that was initiated only two years ago with U.S. backing. The vote was a victory for the right-wing coalition led by Major Roberto d'Aubuisson. Declared former President José Napoleon Duarte, whose Christian Democrats opposed the measure: "It was strictly a political move to attack the poor people of El Salvador...
...problems of the campesinos are not entirely new. From the start, El Salvador's land redistribution program has suffered from poor administration, insufficient credit lines and corruption. But the election on March 28 of a constituent assembly dominated by right-wing parties has raised fresh concerns. Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, head of the ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and president of the new assembly, vigorously attacked the program during the election campaign, and last week he declared that he favored a "moratorium" on land reforms. Advocates of the program fear that D'Aubuisson will quietly...
From the President of the U.S. to Roberto Duran, everyone called Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute last week to wish Sugar Ray Leonard well after surgery to reattach the retina of his left eye. And almost everyone wished he would quit boxing. "Right now, we're not concerned whether his boxing career is in jeopardy," said Mike Trainer, Leonard's lawyer and friend. "His left eye was in jeopardy-that has been our concern." The injury may have been suffered in the Tommy Hearns fight last September, though Leonard did not begin to see a "spot" until...
...House Foreign Affairs Committee granting the Reagan Administration's request for $60 million in necessary aid to El Salvador is yet another step in the wrong direction for U.S. policy in Central America. Symbolically the assistance constitutes a show of support for the recently elected Constituted Assembly headed by Roberto d'Aubuisson, the extreme right-wing leader who former U.S. ambassador Robert White calls a "pathological killer." Concretely, the guns and funds mean the prolongation of a bloody civil war that continues to ravage El Salvador...
...gesture which meant the most to nine-year-olds, busy oiling their mitts and swinging weighted bats, was that they could still get a Roberto Clemente baseball card...