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...Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, 59, was jubilant. His center-left Christian Democratic Party had surprised even itself last week by its triumph in nationwide legislative and municipal elections. Some 1 million voters, about 59% of those eligible, ignored threats and a few minor attacks by leftist guerrillas to take part in the Palm Sunday voting. When it was over, there had been a clear shift in the country's balance of political power: the Christian Democrats appeared certain of a definite majority of seats in the 60member National Assembly. The sweeping show of support gave a badly needed boost...
...vote provoked an equally dramatic and unexpected measure of support for Duarte from the 46,000-member Salvadoran armed forces. As ballot boxes began to arrive at election headquarters in the capital of San Salvador, right- wingers led by D'Aubuisson charged that the military had conspired with the Christian Democrats to perpetrate an electoral fraud. The protest stalled official vote counting pending a ruling by the Central Election Council, a three-man body dominated by conservatives. Fears arose that the election might be invalidated...
...Those in our country who speak out are captured, mistreated, and tortured," said a Salvadoran refugee using the assumed name of Estella Ramirez, who was arrested three times before she escaped to the United States...
...army takes away everybody...they bomb fields... no one is safe, guilty or now," said one EI Salvadoran refugee who left his percents in Central America...
Wolf said her experience of 40-year ago mirrored the plight of the more than twenty-five Haitian and Salvadoran refugees who mingled in the crowd outside...