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Before the interview began, he whisked away the machine guns that were lying on the table in his party's headquarters in San Salvador. Roberto d'Aubuisson, the candidate of the far right, is determined these days to soften his image as a gunman. He rose in Salvadoran society by attending his country's military academy, a traditional route to the top. After the 1979 coup that removed General Carlos Humberto Romero and installed a reformist junta, D'Aubuisson was purged from the army by the new government. Excerpts from D'Aubuisson's session...
...Salvadoran born into the middle class. The guerrillas have blocked all possibilities for development. The economy is in a kind of chaos we have never experienced before. We love our country. We are not defending the interests of any particular sector...
...sleepy collection of adobe buildings around a dusty main square, the Salvadoran village of Osicala stretches across a steep hillside in the northeastern department of Morazdn, only about ten miles from the Honduran border. Defended by the Salvadoran security forces, Osicala was briefly seized by the insurgents last May, and has suffered three major assaults since; sporadic fighting is an almost daily occurrence. The report of TIME's Caribbean bureau chief, William McWhirter...
...near the dusty village of Santa Rita in northern Chalatenango Department. They arrived to meet guerrilla contacts at 5 p.m. Ten minutes later, villagers heard prolonged shooting. Eight people died. The four Dutchmen were shot repeatedly at close range, and their bodies were quickly removed to the capital by Salvadoran soldiers. The army claimed that they died in a firefight, but most reporters suspected that instead the Dutchmen were followed by the army to the rebels, then murdered. A week before their deaths the four Dutchmen had been called in for five hours of questioning by the Hacienda, or treasury...
Alan Riding of the New York Times, went because of repeated warnings from Salvadoran friends. At week's end eight journalists who drove up to inspect the site where the Dutch died had a scare that suggested the list could be taken more seriously. Armed men jumped out of a cattle truck, demanded identification and acted menacing. Said Photographer Susan Meiselas: "We all thought this...