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Article: A voice from the grave. (Sister Ita Ford, one of four murdered relief workers in El Salvador)
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- The Progressive
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- June 1, 1998
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In early April, The New York Times reported that four Salvadoran National Guardsmen who were convicted and jailed for killing three American nuns and a lay worker in December 1980 confirmed they acted on orders from higher-ups.
The outrage over the rape and murder of the churchwomen threatened to derail the Reagan Administration's efforts to arm the Salvadoran military. Secretary of State Alexander Haig claimed the nuns might have tried to run a military roadblock. Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, hinted that as "activist" nuns they could have expected trouble.
But to those of us covering the war in El Salvador at the time, it ...