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...Congress has adjourned, he can do nothing, exercising the pocket veto. Unlike the normal veto, the pocket veto cannot be overridden by a two-thirds vote. President Reagan tried one last November. The measure in question was a bill declaring that there should be no military aid to El Salvador unless the President could report improvements in that nation's human rights record...
...Congress had not adjourned, but was merely off on a break between sessions, and had designated the House clerk and the Senate secretary to receive any presidential missives. Unless the White House successfully appeals to the Supreme Court, the decision makes illegal, technically, the $64 million dispensed to El Salvador in military aid since Nov. 30 of last year...
From the Casa Presidential in San Salvador, José Napoleón Duarte last week issued a decree creating a commission to investigate political killings committed by El Salvador's right-wing death squads. In a country where 50,000 people, 1 out of every 100 citizens, have died in political violence of one sort or another in the past five years, the news should have been greeted with sweeping enthusiasm. Instead, it was hardly greeted at all. The announcement was mentioned only briefly in the capital's three major newspapers and received no coverage on the country...
...episode neatly illustrated both the power and the problems of the new President. Deprived of office by the military in 1972, then beaten by soldiers and banished to Venezuela for seven years, Duarte, 58, last June became El Salvador's first freely elected civilian President in more than 50 years. Since then, he has hurled himself into an agenda of nearly impossible tasks. He had to diminish the activities of the death squads, many of them linked to the military, in a country that lacked an effective judicial system to prosecute the murderers. He had to continue fighting...
Considering the obstacles, Duarte has not done badly. As he completes his first 100 days in office this week, the consensus in both El Salvador and the U.S. is that he has taken positive steps on his country's long road to recovery. It is, of course, too early to tell whether he will ultimately succeed, but the initial judgment abroad and at home is that he has created the proper climate for democracy to bloom. "Duarte has picked up a great deal of support in Congress," says Democratic Congressman Dante Fascell of Florida, a frequent critic...