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...Secretary steered a tricky diplomatic course, however. When Senators argued that money should be linked to El Salvador's speeding the painfully slow process of bringing to trial the soldiers suspected of killing four churchwomen from the U.S. in 1980, Shultz objected. He said such an American insistence would "denigrate" the very judicial system the U.S. wants to strengthen...
...dirt or their own genitals. There are recountings of the killings of American Agricultural Advisers Mark Pearlman and Michael Hammer in the dining room of the Hotel Sheraton, the same place where Free lance Writer John Sullivan was last seen alive. She reminds us of the four North American churchwomen who were murdered in 1980, the 50 students killed when government troops attacked the National University, and the doctors and health workers who were shot down in the countryside...
...suffered two more blows on the human rights front last week. A Salvadoran judge temporarily blocked the long-awaited trial of four national guardsmen accused of the 1980 murder of four American churchwomen near the capital of San Salvador. Despite the testimony of another guardsman who has confessed to complicity in the killings, plus FBI ballistics and fingerprint evidence, the judge said that Salvadoran justice demanded additional proof. Three days later, it was announced that the president of a Salvadoran human rights commission, a 34-year-old woman, had been killed during an army counterinsurgency sweep...
...justice system recently gave two indications particularly noteworthy for Americans that little progress is being made. El Salvador released two Salvadoran officers implicated in the murder of two American land redistribution consultants and reversed a court decision that found several Salvadoran soldiers guilty of the murders of four American churchwomen...
...investigation had dragged on for almost two years, straining relations between the U.S. and El Salvador and attracting reproachful editorials worldwide. Finally, a sign of progress emerged last week. Salvadoran Judge Bernardo Rauda Murcia ruled that five former National Guardsmen accused of murdering four American churchwomen in 1980 must stand trial...