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...leftist critics and human rights groups, who are already complaining about such speedy attention to an incident involving U.S. Marines while thousands of cases involving rightist death-squad attacks on Salvadorans remain unsolved. More specifically, many Salvadorans want to see arrests made in the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who had been one of the region's most outspoken clergymen. Last week the government announced that it was reopening the investigation into Romero's murder...
...cloud appeared the day before the inauguration ceremony. About 1,000 demonstrators chanting "Fraud! Fraud!" staged a late-night protest in Panama City's Cathedral Plaza. The demonstrators were backers of Ardito Barletta's venerable populist rival in last May's presidential election, Arnulfo Arias Madrid, 83. Arias lost the election by a mere 1,713 of the 640,000 votes cast, prompting widespread accusations of fraud. Said Winston Robles, editor of the opposition daily La Prensa: "The main problem for Nicky is one of legitimacy...
...squad suspects, then recommend changes. The President has sent the National Assembly a bill that would create an Institute for Criminal Investigation, composed of a detective unit and a forensic laboratory. He is eager to solve a number of especially offensive crimes, including the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero and the 1981 killings of two U.S. labor advisers. Though no deadlines have been set for the commission's report or the establishment of the institute, Duarte's actions should enhance his popularity with members of the U.S. Congress, who have sharply criticized the Salvadoran human rights...
...President. Constantly asked by reporters about promised reforms ("Give me a few weeks, please," he said in general exasperation), Duarte seemed intent on moving cautiously. However, he did order an eleven-member military commission to 'Open an inquiry into the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Meanwhile, Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist rival in last month's elections, who was once accused by former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White of plotting Romero's murder, received a visa to visit the U.S. After denying D'Aubuisson permission to enter the country...
...unit's main task will be to uphold the country's revised criminal code, which is designed to make prosecutions easier, and to investigate death-squad murders. The first case on their blotter: the 1980 assassi nation of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Ro mero. Former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White has accused Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist opponent in last month's elections, of masterminding that murder, although the charge has never been proved. "Nobody is going to be above the law in this government," Duarte told TIME. "If Roberto d'Aubuisson...