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...Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Bernard Diederich/Managua and James Willwerth/San Salvador...
Before the interview began, he whisked away the machine Before the interview began, he whisked away the machine guns that were lying on the table in his party's headquarters in San Salvador. Roberto d'Aubuisson, the candidate of the far right, is determined these days to soften his image as a gunman. He rose in Salvadoran society by attending his country's military academy, a traditional route to the top. After the 1979 coup that removed General Carlos Humberto Romero and installed a reformist junta, D'Aubuisson was purged from the army...
...reasons for his party's sudden success. The people of El Salvador do not want the old schemes, much less the scheme of "communitarianism" [a reference to the philosophy of the Christian Democrats' Duarte, whom right-wing opponents falsely claim is a Marxist]. We offer a very simple human thing: peace and work. We seek a representative democracy, where the power comes from the people, and a free market society. We believe in and respect human rights. We are to tally opposed to Castro terrorism...
...source of his country's problems. This is actually an invasion of international Communism. El Salvador is not the principal objective. The objective is Central America and the Caribbean basin, and eventually the U.S. By 1969 the Communists had established violent groups to damage the economy in our region. The most violent attacks-kidnapings, terrorism-had great backing from the mistaken political thought of Mr. Jimmy Carter [a reference to Carter's tolerance for the Sandinista-led revolution in Nicaragua]. That is why Nicaragua is a pro-Soviet government today. Members of the U.S. Department of State, Venezuela...
...charges that he has been associated with death squads, was involved in the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero and is the front man for El Salvador's powerful oligarchy. It was to be expected that I would be attacked with these false words because we were the first to recognize what was coming over our country. We interrupted the plans they [the "subversives"] had. They focused their attention on us. But have they presented proof of their charges...