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Anywhere else the court appearance might have been a routine event, but in El Salvador it was momentous. As heavily armed members of the Salvadoran national guard stood by, six of their former colleagues appeared last week before a judge in the town of Zacatecoluca. The judge's task: to decide whether the six should stand trial for the brutal murders 14 months ago of three American nuns, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke and Dorothy Kazel, and a U.S. religious lay worker, Jean Donovan. At week's end, the judge ruled that five of the men should be charged...
...first time in El Salvador's four-year-old war against 4,000 to 6,000 Marxist guerrillas, members of the government's 22,000-man security forces were being brought to judicial account over the deaths of noncombatants. Even before the judge's decision, Salvadoran President José Napoleon Duarte, in a national television address, called the men "the only and the true guilty ones" in the crimes. Duarte seemed particularly anxious to squelch accusations that the murders might have been ordered by higher authorities in the Salvadoran military...
...organizations in both the U.S. and El Salvador are now engaged in compiling that information. Hardly any of these body counters blame the guerrillas for significant abuses, a sign of the anti-government bias of most of the human rights organizations. Even so, U.S. officials are concerned that the Salvadoran government's publicized reputation for brutality is undermining Administration aid for the regime. Last week Deane Hinton, U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, bluntly warned that human rights abuses by government troops have come "dangerously close" to an intolerable limit. Said Hinton: "If there is one issue that could force...
Concern over El Salvador is also dividing the U.S. press. The Wall Street Journal last week editorially criticized the New York Times and the Washington Post for their reporting Jan. 27 of large-scale killings of civilians by the Salvadoran army in the department of Morazan. The Journal complained that the relatively uncritical handling of the story, especially by the Times, amounted to a "propaganda exercise" for the guerrillas...
...group calling itself the February 11th Coalition staged the protest to pressure Conte (R-Pittsfield) into nothing against an additional $55 million in aid to the El Salvadoran government as requested by the Reagan Administration said Sarah Kemble a member of the coalition...