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...petition, circulated at a meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Boston in late December, urges the government to withhold aid from Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Colombia...
...recent killing of American nuns in El Salvador, coupled with the election of Reagan, prompted the petition, Thomas Pogge, a philosophy graduate student and one of the petition's co-authors, said yesterday...
...particularly festive night in the 288-room Sheraton Hotel in the hills behind San Salvador. The hotel's new roller disco was crammed with teenagers, many of them students from U.S. schools home for the holidays. In the Izalco Supper Club, older couples danced to an eleven-piece orchestra. Across the hallway, in the Salon Centre America dining room, three men chatted earnestly over coffee. Without warning, two well-dressed men stepped into the nearly deserted restaurant, pulled out automatic pistols and sprayed the three diners with 9-mm and .45-cal. gunfire, hitting them in the chests...
Once again the gruesome internecine warfare that claimed 10,000 deaths last year had taken a toll in American lives. Killed in the massacre were José Rodolfo Viera, president of El Salvador's Institute for Agrarian Transformation, and two U.S. labor lawyers, Michael P. Hammer and Mark David Pearlman. Hammer, 42, an agrarian expert who had arrived in the capital the day he was killed, and Pearlman, 26, a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, were both employees of the American Institute for Free Labor Development, an international arm of the AFL-CIO. The organization has been...
...latest incidents came only a month after slayings of five other Americans who had been working in El Salvador. In early December, suspected right-wing terrorists shot three nuns and a Catholic lay worker alongside a dirt road. 30 miles east of the capital. A fortnight later an American ex-policeman working as an investigator was gunned down...