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- <text id=91TT2264>
- <title>
- Oct. 14, 1991: World Notes:El Salvador
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 14, 1991 Jodie Foster:A Director Is Born
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- EL SALVADOR
- Killers or Fall Guys?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Who ordered the killings of six Jesuit priests and two women
- that rocked El Salvador in 1989? And who participated in the
- subsequent cover-up? Although a Salvadoran court last week held
- two army officers responsible for the murders and acquitted
- seven lower-ranking soldiers, the answers to those questions may
- never be resolved. With the government under U.S. pressure to
- punish the perpetrators, the convictions of a colonel and a
- lieutenant capped a 20-month investigation and three-day trial.
- But suspicions linger that the two officers may be fall guys for
- higher-ranking officers who plotted the predawn massacre.
- </p>
- <p> The jury's decision to convict military officers for
- politically motivated murders is a first for El Salvador. But
- the country's justice system remains shaky. The identities of
- the five jury members were kept secret to safeguard them against
- possible retribution. And the presiding judge plans to leave the
- country after the sentencing next month. As for the convicted
- felons, their time behind bars may be short: President Alfredo
- Cristiani has not ruled out a possible amnesty.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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