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...local army officer who has been accused of ordering the 1981 murders of two U.S. land-reform experts and a Salvadoran labor leader. The U.S. is also annoyed by the reluctance of the Salvadorans to bring to trial five former National Guardsmen accused of murdering four American churchwomen...
...concerted, significant" effort to eliminate brutality by local security forces, and were also making "continued progress" in carrying out political and economic reforms. Congress also demanded assurances that the Salvadoran regime was making "good faith efforts" to investigate and prosecute the murders there a year ago of four American churchwomen and two American aid officials...
...making a "concerted, significant effort" to improve the human rights climate and that the Salvadorans were achieving "continued progress" in implementing political and economic reforms. Congress also wanted assurances that the Salvadoran government was making "good faith efforts" to investigate and prosecute the murders there of four American churchwomen and two American aid officials a year...
...Airport in a white Toyota van, bound, as it turned out, for a shallow grave 15 miles to the northeast. Though the National Guard had claimed thousands of victims in the years and months before, the point blank shots to the back of the head that killed the four churchwomen were, for the war in El Salavador, the shots heard round the world, or at least the Western Hemisphere...
...Pray to God; she will hear us," runs the standard feminist gibe at "sexism" in the churches. More churchmen, as well as churchwomen, are beginning to agree that there is something to gibe about. Despite the array of strong women in the Old Testament and Jesus' easy assumption of sexual equality in the New, they contend that paternalistic traditions and the very language of faith need to be revised...