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...connecting D'Aubuisson with Romero's death, Duarte broke the unofficial code of silence that has long protected rightist army officers and politicians from prosecution for their alleged ties to the death squads. At the same time, prominent leaders of the leftist Salvadoran rebels returned home, testing Duarte's compliance with the Central American peace accord that he and five other regional leaders signed in August. A miscalculation in balancing right against left could not only plunge El Salvador into a new round of death-squad killings but also jeopardize the entire peace process...
...member of the country's legislature, D'Aubuisson cannot be prosecuted. A report by Salvadoran Attorney General Roberto Giron Flores has concluded, however, that Garay's testimony is sufficient to label the politician the "intellectual author" of the crime. Last week El Salvador's Justice Ministry began taking formal steps to convince the National Assembly that it should strip D'Aubuisson of his immunity so that he can be charged. Duarte's Christian Democratic Party has a clear majority in the legislature, 33 seats, compared with the 13 of D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). Duarte, who defeated...
...Reagan Administration should not support the El Salvadoran government as it violates human rights and has no respect for scholarly political opposition, a student from the University of El Salvador said in a speech at the Law School last night...
Rene Hernandez, U.S. representative of the General Association of Salvadoran University Students (AGEUS), criticized President Jose Napoleon Duarte's government for using the military and "death squads" to stifle political debate throughout the country...
...Americans back downtown? Old cities are architecturally eclectic places, where Queen Anne turrets bump up against an International Style library. On a single block, even in a single building, people work as well as live as well as shop. In good cities, infants in Apricas share sidewalks with octogenerians, Salvadoran immigrants with manicured executives. In good cities, eras and generations and races and pursuits are a jumble. Serendipity and surprise are the point...