The World - News from May 17, 1985
The president of El Salvador’s Christian Democratic-led Legislative Assembly said his party plans to call for the dismissal of Atty. Gen. Jose Francisco Guerrero, who it believes has obstructed prosecution of human rights cases. The announcement by Assembly President Guillermo Antonio Guevara is the first indication that President Jose Napoleon Duarte’s Christian Democrats may use the assembly majority it won in the March 31 elections to take control of the country’s judicial system. The attorney general was appointed by the assembly last summer when rightists controlled that body.
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