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...those assigned to right-wing packs. Nonetheless, the rebels frequently execute alleged army collaborators, including villagers who gave either information or food to passing patrols. A hit team from a major guerrilla group, the Popular Liberation Front (FPL), killed U.S. Navy Lieut. Albert Schaufelberger last May, while a splinter faction called the Revolutionary Workers' Movement has claimed credit for murdering two politicians...
...deformations," and of ordering Anaya Monies' murder. As a sign of its new, "moderate" direction, it named as Cayetano Carpio's successor Leonel González, 39, a former schoolteacher whose revolutionary specialty is underground organizing. The F.P.L. also acknowledged the breakaway of a more violence-prone splinter faction, the Salvador Cayetano Carpio Revolutionary Workers' Movement...
Washington officials were facing up to the idea that the election might not be over on voting day. With a handful of splinter candidates in the race, it is probable that neither D'Aubuisson nor Duarte could win the majority of votes needed for immediate election. Under the presidential selection rules, such a stalemate would require a runoff election between the top two finishers next month. There was no predicting where followers of the other, mostly conservative candidates would throw their second-round support...
...just 2,000 to 3,000 executions, but they have nonetheless systematically eliminated every group that does not conform to their beliefs. Last May they forced the Tudeh Communist Party to denounce itself publicly and disband. In August they suspended the Hojjatieh Society, an esoteric Shi'ite Muslim splinter group that refuses to interpret the Koran in the fashion approved by the mullahs. During the past five years the regime has also incited mobs to desecrate the shrines of the Baha'i faith, drive thousands of adherents out of their homes and kill at least 150Baha...
...Christian Democrats and 29.1 % for ARENA. But it seems unlikely that D'Aubuisson or Duarte will be capable of winning a majority either, which means that complex political maneuvering may be involved in choosing the new chief of state. The wheeling and dealing have already begun. Two conservative splinter parties announced last week that they had held talks on joining ranks with ARENA, and Guerrero has been carrying on his own informal conversations with that party. Even if he does not emerge from the discordant campaign as President, he may be the country's kingmaker...