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Democracy's verdict can be harsh, even for its friends. Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte's ruling Christian Democratic Party, which has steered an erratic course between murderous foes on the left and the right, rediscovered that truth last week when it was roundly rejected at the ballot box. Almost 1 million Salvadoran voters braved guerrilla intimidation to oust the Christian Democrats from power and give control of the 60-seat Assembly to the ultraconservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which in the past has been associated with right-wing death squads...
...power in the Assembly to stop investigations of human-rights abuses. Above all, ARENA has vowed to take a tougher approach to defeating El Salvador's guerrillas, going so far as to declare that it may send home some 55 U.S. military advisers who have worked to improve the Salvadoran army's dismal human-rights record...
...debate about contra aid: a new vocabulary. All sides must now make their case in the ritual language of the Guatemala accord. Opponents of contra aid say they are simply fulfilling the part that calls for an end to outside aid to insurgents. (Cutting off Nicaraguan aid to the Salvadoran insurgents is left to the appropriate Nicaraguan parliamentary committees.) The Administration, for its part, portrays contra aid as a mere "insurance policy" to save the peace plan in case the Sandinistas renege on their promises...
...former soldiers were released last month. They had been sentenced to 30 years in the murders of two U.S. land reform advisers and the head of the Salvadoran land reform agency...
...Salvadoran law provides for appeal of the Martial Court's decision...