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...Aubuisson professes not to be concerned by the U.S. reaction. "I do not answer to the [U.S.] Congress, only to the Salvadoran people," he said last week. Perhaps, but he still needs Congress's support if his country is to receive any of the $128 million in economic aid and $60 million in military assistance requested by the Reagan Administration...
...unaccountably slow in actually paying compensation to former landlords and in delivering new titles to the cooperatives. Of the 330 farms turned into cooperatives, only six have been given clear titles of ownership. All of the farmers who bought land under Phase 3 have received only provisional titles. Says Salvadoran Communal Union Leader Guillermo Blanco...
...campesino has no idea whether he owns the land or not." Farm leaders fear that the frustrated campesinos may respond by supporting the guerrillas. Warns an official of the Salvadoran Institute...
Although several key posts in the Salvadoran government named last month are filled by moderate Christian Democrats, the real power lies with d'Abuisson. As president of an assembly controlled by the extreme right, he has the power to veto any legislation. An ardent opponent of land reform and other measures to help the poor, d'Aubuisson hardly appears likely to back progressive proposals the government may put forth...
Though isolated from its main coalition partner on this issue, ARENA refused to give up the fight for a right-wing President. According to some Salvadoran observers, D'Aubuisson saw the struggle as a "machismo" exercise to prove that he was tougher than the generals and the U.S. embassy combined. The boyish-looking former intelligence officer was encouraged by the gaggle of mostly female supporters who packed the assembly gallery each day to shout their support and hoot down the opposition. Before Magaña's selection, ARENA Leader Mario Redaelli boasted that he had told...