Word: ultrarightists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winners was the center-left Christian Democratic Party, led by Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, 41, which captured 22 Assembly seats. Tied for first place was the moderate Union of the National Center, led by Jorge Carpio Nicolle, 51. Guatemala's traditional ultrarightist party, the Movement of National Liberation, took 21 seats. Both Cerezo and Carpio predicted that they could fashion a majority by making deals with some of the 14 other parties in the contest...
...Reporter Claire Sterling* in the New York Times, was compiled by State Prosecutor Antonio Albano and drawn from some 25,000 pages of material assembled by Investigating Magistrate Ilarío Martella. The report details Agca's longstanding association with the Turkish Mafia and the Gray Wolves, an ultrarightist band of Turkish terrorists. It goes on to discuss his recruitment by the Bulgarian secret service and his bungled shooting and failed escape. While taking scrupulous pains not to mention the Soviet Union by name, the report recommends the indictment of three Bulgarians, including Sergei Ivanov Antonov...
...victory by the ultrarightist D'Aubuisson would undoubtedly lead Congress to cut off U.S. military support for El Salvador, but his chances seemed to be diminishing. When Francisco José Guerrero, who won 19.3% in the March 25 election, refused to throw his support to D'Aubuisson, Christian Democratic pollsters began to predict that Duarte could win as much as 60% of the runoff vote. Duarte appeared to gain a tactical advantage last week when El Salvador's provisional President, Alvaro Magaña, vetoed an ARENA-sponsored proposal for changing the May 6 voting procedure...
...week. As up to 1.7 million voters prepared to trek to the polls, the seven-man race was still considered a toss-up between the controversial front runners, José Napoleón Duarte, 58, of the center-left Christian Democratic Party (P.D.C.), and Roberto d'Aubuisson, 40, leader of the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance, known as ARENA. There was a good chance that neither candidate would win the outright majority required for election, and that a runoff vote would be necessary within 30 days after Sunday's results were certified...
...deeply divided country. As the end of the hard-fought, two-month presidential campaign drew near (see following story), the front runners in the race were José Napoleón Duarte, 58, of the center-left Christian Democrats (P.D.C.) and Roberto d'Aubuisson, 40, leader of the ultrarightist Republican Nationalist Alliance, known as ARENA. Trailing behind, according to the country's unreliable opinion polls, was the only other possible winner, Francisco José Guerrero, 58, leader of the right-of-center National Conciliation Party (P.C.N...