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From their seats, Illinois Senator Charles Percy and Sol Linowitz, Carter's former Middle East envoy, peered forward, curious about the Presidents...
...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...
Despite all this, Torres testified that she had seen Sol Meza and Christ in the corridor leading to the dining room before the killings. They were making hand signals to someone outside, and she thought Christ was speaking into a radio or walkie-talkie. After the shots, she ran into the dining room and found the two men standing over the bodies...
Though both Sol 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...
...preliminary hearing in Miami last week, Christ vehemently maintained his innocence, though he admitted having dined in the hotel that night and having been joined afterward by Sol Meza, a relative by marriage. When the shooting occurred, Christ said, he ran to the dining room from another part of the hotel Despite his protestations, Christ remained in a Miami jail pending another hearing this week...