Word: ultrarightist
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...victory will give him a popular mandate to extend the regime's reforms?notably a land redistribution program begun in 1980?and rein in the endemic violence that haunts El Salvador, much of it attributed to the government's own security forces. But he faces a tough challenge from ultrarightist candidates in the six-party contest. Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former Salvadoran national guard intelligence officer and a fierce extremist, has been campaigning aggressively on an unleash-the-army-and-crush-the-Communists platform, and has been gaining momentum. A victory by a coalition of D'Aubuisson's National...
...service was held to honor El Salvador's most outspoken champion of nonviolence and human rights, shot dead during a Mass six days earlier by a lone assassin who was suspected of being an ultrarightist gunman. What turned the funeral into El Salvador's bloodiest episode this year was an explosion, either a genuine hand bomb or a "leaflet bomb" that flings handbills in the air. It occurred at the edge of Plaza Barrios where an estimated 50,000 mourners were gathered for the outdoor service for the archbishop. Armed leftist militants, primed for possible rightist provocation, apparently...
...form a new government and recommended that the mandate be given to Demirel. The Justice Party holds only 183 seats in the 450-member house. To form a government, Demirel will have to put together a coalition with two right-wing groups, the Muslim Nationalist Salvation Party and the ultrarightist National Action Party. Neither is a very palatable partner for Demirel's moderate party...
...organization of Ecevit's government. Currently, Turkey's inflation is 35%, and unemployment is a huge 20% of the labor force. The nation is also gripped by political terrorism involving extremists of both the left and the right -the latter thought to be encouraged by the ultrarightist Nationalist Action Party, which Demirel had been forced to include in his coalition...
Caramanlis felt that he had been "sabotaged" by the ultrarightist National Rally, which exploited monarchist sentiment and pockets of junta nostalgia and siphoned off votes from New Democracy's conservative wing. Under the peculiarities of the system, the National Rally's five seats would have translated into 30 additional seats for Caramanlis. But friend and foe alike agreed that another important factor was the contrasting campaign styles-and personalities-of Caramanlis and Papandreou...