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...Cambridge church will open its doors today to a Salvadoran refugee, whom church officials say is feeling death squads in her country...
...Cambridge Baptist Church, located at 1151 Massachusetts Ave. will join a nationwide sanctuary movement of 170 churches that grant refuge to Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees who would otherwise be deported back to their countries by the federal government...
...Salvadoran government has arrested and tortured Estela three times because of her union organizing activities according to a press release issued yesterday by the Cambridge Church. She has three children, and right-wing death squads allegedly killed her husband...
Although the publicity surrounding the church's decision to accept Salvadoran refugees would make it easy for authorities to arrest either Estela or church officials, Peggy Smith, one of the eight members on the church's sanctuary task force, said the sanctuary movement is effective because of its public protest...
...Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador and killed two American labor advisers as well as a key figure in El Salvador's land-reform program. No one has yet been convicted of the murders, but the two alleged gunmen are in custody awaiting trial. Last week, however, the Salvadoran Supreme Court dimmed hopes that at least one other man implicated in the crime will be tried. It threw out the case against Lieut. Rodolfo Isidro López Sibrián, a Salvadoran army officer who was seen at the hotel that evening and allegedly ordered the two guardsmen...