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...ruling made it unlikely that the masterminds of the murders would quickly, if ever, be punished. For that reason, the AFL-CIO last week in Washington revealed details of the killings and their aftermath that had not yet been made public. Two of the victims, Michael Peter Hammer, 42, an agrarian reform specialist, and Lawyer Mark David Pearlman, 36, were in El Salvador on assignment for the American Institute for Free Labor Development, the AFL-CIO's Latin-American arm. The third victim, José Rodolfo Viera, 43, was both head of the farmworkers' union and president...
According to the investigation jointly conducted by the AFL-CIO and the Salvadoran government, the killers were José Dimas Valle Acevedo, 35, and Santiago Gómez González, 32, ex-corporals in El Salvador's national guard. They were apprehended, underwent lie-detector tests, confessed and were formally arrested. Both were at the Sheraton Hotel on the night of Jan. 3, 1981, serving as plain-clothes bodyguards for police officers visiting the hotel. One of those officers was Lieut. Rodolfo Isidro López Sibrian, 26, known as "Posorito," or "Little Match," for his naming...
Meanwhile, the Reagan Administration must file another report with Congress in January certifying that El Salvador is making progress on human rights. At that time, AFL-CIO officials will determine whether they approve of the pace at which the investigation of the killings is being conducted. If not, they will most likely lobby against the certification. In any event, officials at the U.S. embassy in San Salvador make it clear that they do not consider the matter closed. Says U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton: "The hand has not been played out, not quite...
...been able to keep pace with the fast employment growth in these areas. Labor has also been slow in attracting the millions of women who are entering the work force, and it has lagged in signing up workers of all kinds in the growing Southwest and West. The AFL-CIO is coordinating a $1.2 million campaign of local unions in the Houston area to win members, but the project has got off to a slow start...
...living escalators for guarantees against plant shutdowns. Over the past 18 months, workers have been forced to take less, not more, in the automobile, steel, rubber, airline, meat packing, printing, trucking and newspaper industries. Top union leadership claims that this is an inevitable consequence of the recession. Says AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland: "There are pressures that exist in this environment, and no one is immune from them...