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...place. In fact, its significance was as much political as religious. In a for mer pantyhose factory nearby, dozens of party representatives were conducting a painstaking ballot-by-ballot recount of all 1.6 million votes cast in the island's gubernatorial election. The race between Governor Carlos Romero Barceló and his main challenger, Rafael Hernández Colón, had been so close that some of the Governor's more zealous supporters concluded that a ceremonial appeal for divine intervention - with coffins containing opponents' effigies - might swing the recount...
Last week, after a six-week delay, In cumbent Romero was at last declared the winner. He received 47.2% of the votes to Hernandez Colon's 47.1% - a margin of 3,503 ballots...
Meanwhile, the most liberal member of El Salvador's five-man ruling junta, Colonel Adolfo Arnoldo Majano, was removed last week after a 300-to-4 no-confidence vote by his own military officers. Majano had led the coup against Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero in October 1979. He was also an architect of the junta's ambitious land-reform and banking-nationalization programs, which made him a bitter enemy of the right...
...junta that took over El Salvador's government more than a year ago, ending the repressive reign of Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero, has proved powerless against the wave of terror loosed by both the left and the right. In what amounts to an undeclared civil war, 8,400 people have been killed in terrorist attacks so far this year. Last week brought one of the most barbaric acts yet. In broad daylight, as the six men who led the country's left conferred in the Jesuit San Jose high school on a busy street in San Salvador, rightists...
...election in North Carolina, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Utah. In Montana, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ted Schwinden won the top job after upsetting Governor Thomas Judge in the primary. It may be days before the outcome is known in Puerto Rico, where Statehood Advocate and incumbent Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo finished in a virtual dead heat with former Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, who favors keeping the island's commonwealth status...