Word: ultraright
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...with 31%, a showing that easily preserved their status as France's largest parliamentary party. With 206 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly, the Socialists will be a considerable opposition force. The two major conservative groups and their allies won 291 seats, a hairline two-vote majority. The ultraright National Front attracted 9.7% of the vote, giving the ) party of former Paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen parliamentary representation for the first time, with 35 seats. The biggest loser: France's Communist Party, which slumped from 20% of the vote in 1979 to 9.8% and appears...
...After looking at photographs of the crowd in St. Peter's Square taken just before the assassination attempt, he declared that Akif was actually School Friend Kadem, after all. The charge is significant because Kadem is a leftist, unlike Celik and Ay, who have ties to an ultraright Turkish terrorist group known as the Gray Wolves. If it can be proved that Kadem was involved in the shooting, it would discredit East bloc charges that only Turkish neo- Nazis had a hand in the plot...
...country's extreme right, on the other hand, took strong exception to the peace mission. The secret Anti-Communist Army, one of El Salvador's death squads, named Duarte as a target for execution. The President was bitterly criticized by Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of the ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and a former presidential candidate. The La Palma meeting, D'Aubuisson said, was "a monologue between old buddies for the same cause: socialism." But D'Aubuisson is increasingly the odd man out in Salvadoran politics: conservative business elements in ARENA supported Duarte...
...move about town in armored Cherokees, accompanied by bodyguards. These vehicles have come to be a status symbol, and Salvadorans laugh at the many parvenus who buy them not out of fear for the guerrillas but because of a desire to seem important. Most of the residents support the ultraright ARENA party, and the majority campaign actively for the candidacy of Major Roberto d'Aubuisson...
Human rights activists and Western diplomats believe that many of the death squads are led by officers in the Salvadoran army and security forces. The recent upsurge in their activity appears to reflect the mounting frustrations of the ultraright, which has seen its power gradually erode over the past year. The right failed to gain control of key ministries after the March 1982 elections, and it has also been unable to derail the government's programs to redistribute land more equitably. Making matters worse, in the right's view, the Salvadoran Peace Commission, sponsored by the interim administration...