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...been made public. Two of the victims, Michael Peter Hammer, 42, an agrarian reform specialist, and Lawyer Mark David Pearlman, 36, were in El Salvador on assignment for the American Institute for Free Labor Development, the AFL-CIO's Latin-American arm. The third victim, José Rodolfo Viera, 43, was both head of the farmworkers' union and president of the Salvadoran institute for Agrarian Transformation. The institute was empowered under 1980 laws to take land from the country's propertied oligarchy and redistribute it among Salvadoran peasants, a program fiercely resented by the ruling families...
...enlisted men said in their confessions that López Sibrian told them: "Look, inside the hotel is Viera and two other fair-skinned men. You are going to kill them." Soon after, López Sibrian handed Gómez González a 9-mm Ingram submachine gun. Meanwhile another officer, Captain Eduardo Avila, slapped a .45-cal. submachine gun, equipped with a silencer, in Valle Acevedo's hands...
...spring afternoon, even with the wind blowing, no one is much concerned with doing anything else. Viera, like everyone else, says he came to Harvard to "get a good education." But when the freshman who went two for four in the nightcap is asked what he wants to do after school, he answers without hesitation. "I want to play professional baseball Definitely...
...slim, soft-spoken waitress was on duty last January when it happened. Two gunmen suddenly appeared in San Salvador's Sheraton Hotel and shot to death Michael Hammer and Mark David Pearlman, two American labor lawyers, and José 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...
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...