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...substance to report to the crowd that had kept the long vigil. The two sides agreed only to form an eight-member peace commission, with four representatives each, that will meet again in November. Meantime, the war would continue: there was no accord on a ceasefire. Said Guillermo Ungo, speaking for the rebels: "There are, obviously, differences. But we have reached a preliminary agreement." From the steps of the church, F.M.L.N. Commander Eduardo Sancho Castañeda shouted a theme to the crowd, which quickly took it up: "We all want peace, we all want peace, we all want peace...
...F.M.L.N. delegation: Guillermo Ungo and Rubén Zamora of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, the rebels' political wing; Eduardo Sancho Castañeda (known as Fermán Cienfuegos), Lucio Castellanos, Facundo Guardado and Nidia Diaz, guerrilla military leaders...
...Duarte ran for President against Colonel Arturo Armando Molina Barraza, the candidate of El Salvador's ruling military-landowner alliance. Duarte's running mate was a high school chum, Guillermo Ungo.* Conservative businessmen were aghast at the duo's election promises of land reform and support for organized labor, and by the fact that a front organization for the illegal Communist Party was participating in its National Opposition Union. When Duarte appeared to be pulling into the lead, the government blacked out television coverage of the ballot counting and announced the following day that Molina...
...Ungo, a Social Democrat, joined forces with the guerrillas in 1980 and has now become their chief political spokesman...
...making a campfire out of the paper ballots. Three miles north of the departmental capital of San Miguel, posters warning of land mines were planted on the road, watched over by rifle-bearing rebels. Overall, the guerrilla attitude toward the election was summed up by their spokesman, Guillermo Ungo, who declared, "Votes are not the source of power, because there is no democracy in El Salvador...