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DATE: TUESDAY, April 26, 1994                   TAG: 9404260139
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: B-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR                                LENGTH: Short

SALVADORAN LEADER VOWS ROLE FOR LEFT

President-elect Armando Calderon Sol is promising a broad-based government with a role for the leftist opposition, but his right-wing past leaves him with a lot to prove.

Calderon came up through the ranks of his conservative ARENA party in the shadow of men blamed for the murders of thousands of Salvadorans suspected of leftist leanings in the 1980s.

There is no evidence that Calderon Sol, 45, a two-time mayor of San Salvador, took part in the death squad killings. But he was close to people who almost certainly did, including ARENA founder Roberto d'Aubuisson.

Calderon Sol defeated Ruben Zamora, who headed a coalition of three leftist parties, by a 2-1 margin Sunday for a five-year term beginning June 1.

Zamora, 51, was a leader of the political arm of the guerrilla Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front during much of the war that ended in 1992.

- Associated Press

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