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...differences between the two chief rivals for the presidency are pronounced and profound. At his own campaign rallies around the country, the Christian Democrats' Duarte stresses conciliation and optimism as the answer to El Salvador's bloody woes. If elected, Duarte promises to speed up the progress of Salvadoran land reform and begin negotiations that would bring members of the F.M.L.N. insurgency within the legitimate political process. Duarte has also vowed to rid El Salvador of human rights violations, which are among the worst in the hemisphere. He proposes to eliminate the country's 2,500-member...
...Aubuisson's jingoism and xenophobia have risen in proportion to Reagan Administration efforts to bring an end to the death squads. In the past two months, Administration officials, including Vice President George Bush, have streamed into San Salvador to denounce right-wing killing as no more acceptable than the violence perpetuated by the left. That view received additional endorsement from President Reagan's bipartisan Kissinger commission on Central America, which suggested "conditioning" vastly increased amounts...
...Salvador on the basis of an improved human rights performance...
...Washington, the aid vs. human rights debate over El Salvador will likely increase in stridency this week, as Congressmen return from recess to Capitol Hill. Anticipating the controversy, the Administration last week released a Salvadoran human rights assessment asserting, as the Administration has done in the past, that "important progress has been made." Among other things, the report claims a drop in the rate of violent Salvadoran civilian deaths during the latter half of 1983, to 104 monthly, but offers a blunt admission that there has been a "significant increase" in casualties attributable to death squads. The Administration...
presidential election nears. El Salvador's interminable bloodshed, in fact, now could have an impact on the electoral future of two countries. -By George Russell...