rank and the record here.  He was a common, low-grade non-commissioned sergeant.  Whatever his boasting and threats to denounce her as a subversive, it is clear that no appearance of official or military authority is shown to have supported his pretension to force majeure.    He wore a uniform, carried a gun, and used both alternatively to vent upon her his rapacious assault or his pathological display of lover's wooing.  In a country engaged in bloody civil war such as El Salvador, where guns and uniforms are plentiful, perhaps a significant portion of the population, male and female, could probably establish political persecution under the majority's test.  More disturbing, however, is the facility with which the majority misreads the record.  Accordingto the Immigration Judge, petitioner "described Zuniga as a common police officer.  He was not a person of rank or authority."    Moreover, petitioner testified to her belief that Zuniga would have made the same threats and committed the same violent acts had he not been a member of the Fuerza Armada.    She also admitted that she would not have sought the assistance of the authorities even if Zuniga had not belonged to that organization.


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That he was a member of the local police force played no part in Zuniga's treatment of the petitioner, and certainly did not convert his violent appetites into political motivation.  He acted in no official capacity, pursuant to no government policy;  and he had no official