Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most cold-blooded was the brutal slaying of six Jesuit priests, which seemed to symbolize all that is wrong in El Salvador. While no one has claimed responsibility, immediate suspicion centered on the country's resurgent right- wing death squads. In the predominantly Roman Catholic country, angry accusations and outrage over the barbaric murders were certain to linger long after the battle had died. And for the U.S., they raised once again the moral dilemma of aiding a country where such acts have repeatedly gone unpunished...
...related event, St. Mary's Catholic Church held a special mass last night in memory of the recent killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter at the University of Central America in El Salvador...
...council also passed a resolution in memory of the recent killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter by uniformed assassins at the University of Central America in EI Salvador. The measure called for "an end to all military aid and intervention in EI Salvador...
COCA's other main objective is to work with the people of Central America for social and political change. Thus, when we learned on Thursday of the slayings of six Jesuit priests by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military, we postponed the teach-in. Although the draft cards were already sent, COCA felt it was more important to join in the nationwide effort to pressure Congress into calling for an immediate end to U.S. military aid to EI Salvador...
...memo, sent by Harvard's Committee on Central America (COCA) to 900 male undergraduates, was cleverly designed to play upon the public outrage generated by the brutal murders of six Jesuit priests last week by right-wing death squads in El Salvador...