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...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...
...downtrodden. They favor redistribution of income, nationalization of foreign trade and land reform. "We please the middle and lower classes," said President Seyed Ali Khamene'i, 44, last summer, "and let big landlords, big factory owners and the wealthy seethe in discontent." Opposing them are the ultrarightist clerics who insist that the Koran unequivocally condemns such socialistic practices. The Prophet Muhammad, they point out, was once a merchant, who said, "The merchant is among God's favorites." The leftists were rebuffed 16 months ago when the social reform bills they proposed were vetoed by the Guardian Council...
...President Alvaro Magaña at a lunch attended by the six candidates in the presidential race. Among them were the two front runners: former President José Napoleón Duarte, a Christian Democrat appreciated in Washington for his moderation, and Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance. D'Aubuisson has been accused of being linked to the right-wing death squads that have killed thousands of people in the country over the past four years; in a deliberate show of disapproval, the State Department last November denied him a visa to visit...
...pure fabrications" and charged that the diaries' ink had not been subjected to chemical tests. As photographers jostled each other to get pictures of Irving, who started his own miniconference, Stern security aides led him away while he shouted, "Ink! Ink! Ink!" Irving, a Hitler biographer with professed "ultrarightist" political views, conceded he had been hired as a consultant by another publication, Bild am Sonntag (circ. 2.6 million...
Despite the assortment of parties, two figures dominated the election: President José Napoleón Duarte, 56, leader of the Christian Democratic Party, and Roberto d'Aubuisson, 38, a former national guard intelligence major who personifies the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA...