Word: napoleons
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After a flurry of proposals and counterproposals, El Salvador was not an inch closer to peace. President Jose Napoleon Duarte, whose Christian Democrats are trailing in the polls, took the diplomatic initiative last week by calling for talks with the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) and offering to postpone for six weeks the presidential elections scheduled for March 19. The army also unilaterally declared a cease-fire until June...
...years, the two students said, leftist rebels have demonstrated against President Jose Napoleon Duarte and his Christian Democratic government. But the pair said violence has worsened, blaming part of the cause of U.S. involvement, the largest sustained American military expenditure since Vietnam...
...policies toward Central America. Like Vice President Bush in 1983, Quayle warned Salvadoran military officers and rightist politicians that the recent upsurge in political murders must be reversed if the U.S. is to continue pumping $545 million a year into the country. Quayle also encouraged Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte to reconsider his rejection of the leftist rebels' request that the March elections be postponed so they can take part...
...startling twelve-point proposal was conveyed first to Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas of San Salvador, who passed it on to the government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. After nine years of refusing to lay down their arms, the guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front last week declared their willingness to participate in El Salvador's presidential balloting and abide by the results, win or lose. The F.M.L.N. asked that the March 19 polling be postponed until Sept. 15 so the rebels would have more time to rally supporters. The group, which tried to sabotage the last five national...
...rebel offensive is timed to remind voters that the F.M.L.N. remains a force to be reckoned with. The election of moderate President Jose Napoleon Duarte in 1984 seemed to promise an end to the grueling war. But failed talks with the rebels and charges of official corruption have dissipated the popularity of Duarte's Christian Democratic Party. ARENA has strongly rebounded and seems likely to corner the votes this time. But many observers foresee a runoff for the presidency between ARENA's Alfredo Cristiani and the Christian Democratic candidate Fidel Chavez Mena...