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...Washington, U.S. officials tried to put a positive face on the results. Said a senior Administration official: "The ultimate test of democracy is to have the party in power lose an election to the opposition." Congress, which has authorized nearly $3 billion in military and economic aid for El Salvador over the past seven years, may be less sanguine...
...largely the consequence of Duarte's growing record of policy failures. The President, who has another year to serve, took office in 1984, promising to end the war and restore economic health to the country. But today some 40% of the country's workers are unemployed and El Salvador's war against the Marxist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front sputters on, a point that guerrillas underscored by knocking out 80% of the country's electricity supply on election eve. Duarte's popularity in Washington, once a source of strength at home, is ridiculed today by many Salvadorans, who feel that...
...trouble is that most of those notions are at odds with Duarte's. ARENA has promised, for example, to allow the founding of private banks to compete with El Salvador's state bank and to return to private hands the country's major export industries. There is widespread speculation that ARENA will use its new 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...
Whether ARENA can accomplish those results with Duarte still in office is questionable. But pessimists point out that those cheering hardest for ARENA's victory may have included the F.M.L.N. Captured documents purportedly show that the guerrillas view an ARENA majority as helping their cause by increasing El Salvador's already lethal polarization...
...biting, the executive branch could use military power in accordance with the demands of the situation, rather than with the demands of certain senators and representatives. And Congress could fill a gap in our foreign policy-making that over the long run would prevent crises in Panama and El Salvador from arising in the first place. When America moves in the international arena, unity must prevail so that our determination and purpose will not be questioned by our adversaries or by those we try to help...