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...Salvador's government seemed curiously unwilling to assist in the investigation. No ballistics tests could be performed, for example, because military doctors refused to recover the bullets or perform autopsies; they claimed not to have the proper surgical face masks. The U.S. team was not allowed to interview potential murder witnesses, including the local justice of the peace, who signed a hasty burial permit and presumably had information about the killings...
Soldiers wielding automatic rifles patrolled the dusty plaza outside as 14 priests celebrated a requiem Mass in the village church of Chalatenango, El Salvador. Local children, black-veiled peasant women and silver-haired men filled the pews alongside relatives of the deceased. Inside the coffins lay the bodies of two New York nuns, Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke. Along with another U.S. nun, Sister Dorothy Kazel, and a lay worker, Jean Donovan, they had been murdered by right-wing terrorists who regarded their relief activities among the poor as "Communist work...
...murders, according to the report, a priest near the village of Santa Rita Almendros was told by several peasants that they had been ordered by some National Police and local civil guardsmen to bury the bodies of four American women. Informed of this through the office of San Salvador's acting Archbishop Rivera y Damas, Ambassador White drove to the village about 30 miles east of the capital. There the bodies of the victims were found in an unmarked grave...
Four FBI agents arrived in San Salvador last week to launch a more thorough investigation. After days of stonewalling, the Salvadoran government belatedly named a "high-level civilian and military commission" to "find the guilty people and punish them." But the three military members of the new four-man commission included two close friends of Defense Minister Garcia and a first cousin of Police Chief López Nuila...
Meanwhile, the most liberal member of El Salvador's five-man ruling junta, Colonel Adolfo Arnoldo Majano, was removed last week after a 300-to-4 no-confidence vote by his own military officers. Majano had led the coup against Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero in October 1979. He was also an architect of the junta's ambitious land-reform and banking-nationalization programs, which made him a bitter enemy of the right...