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...Rodolfo Viera, head of the country's controversial land-reform program. Despite the public nature of the killings, TIME Correspondent James Willwerth has learned that if the U.S. Government had not tracked down the waitress, bolstered her courage, persuaded her to testify and actively pressured the Salvadoran government, authorities would not have arrested Ricardo Sol Meza, a wealthy industrialist, and Hans Christ, a businessman. Christ was picked up by the FBI in Miami and is now being held pending the outcome of extradition proceedings...
...Salvadoran detectives summoned to the Sheraton Hotel after the shootings of Hammer, Pearlman and Viera managed to find not a single witness. But an American diplomat breakfasting in the Sheraton shortly afterward asked his waitress, Teresa Torres, if she had seen anything the night of the killings. "If I did," the woman replied, "I'm afraid they would kill...
Torres was interviewed by Arturo Argumedo, the Salvadoran Attorney General. In later interrogations she was treated with the hostility that Salvadoran officials often direct at witnesses. She was told that her name would be made public and that the Salvadoran government could not protect her. Moreover, the judge assigned to the case quit in fear of his life...
...Meza and Christ maintained their innocence, Torres' testimony caused them to be put under "provisional arrest," but that was only the beginning of a lengthy judicial process that could last a year or more and may or may not lead to a trial. To win conviction in a Salvadoran court, another witness is considered essential to corroborate Torres' testimony. Salvadoran prosecutors hint that they may produce one soon...
...weeks until a large government force moved in and surrounded it early this month. Then the guerrillas slipped away in the dark, avoiding a fight. Early last week guerrilla ground fire for the first time forced down a U.S.-made Huey helicopter carrying troops over the battle area. A Salvadoran Green Beret commander, who is in charge of all army operations in Morazan, admits that the guerrillas set up operations on major roadways until his troops are sent to chase them away...