Banner Graphic, Volume 11, Number 106, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 January 1981 — Page 4

The Putnam County Banner Graphic, January 5,1981

Americans slain in El Salvador c. 1981 N.Y. Times WASHINGTON - The State Department said Sunday that it was “perplexed” by the terrorist killings of two American labor activists who had been helping El Salvador implement its land redistribution program. At the same time, the labor group that they had worked for vowed to continue its efforts to help the country's farmers take control of the land. The slayings came a month after the United States government protested the murder of four American missionaries in El Salvador and temporarily withheld economic aid. "We are perplexed at the death of these three men whose lives were dedicated to building a more just and equitable society in El Salvador.” the State Department said. “At the time of their death they were actively working on behalf of an agrarian reform program which has brought new hope for a better life to hundreds of thousands of El Salvadoran rural poor.” Pressure from impoverished farm laborers and sharecroppers for land ownership has been a major source of political violence in El Salvador, pitting left-wing rural guerrillas against right-wing armed landowners. More than 9,000 people were killed in political violence last year. The military leaders who seized power in October 1979 and govern in alliance with members of the Christian Democratic Party expropriated most of the country’s large farms last March and are giving the land to peasants as a way of combatting the guerrilla insurgency. “We’re going to continue to do something,” said Sam Haddad, deputy director of the American Institute for Free Labor Development, the group for which the slain Americans had worked. He said the institute, a Washington-based international branch of the AFL-CIO. would continue to work in El Salvador. It has been active there since 1966. “I don't know what form it will take, but we’ll be hoping and praying and working like hell to get land in the hands of the peasants.” he said. The two men, Michael P. Hammer, 42 years old, of Potomac, Md., and Mark David Pearlman, 26. of Seattle, were slain Saturday night as they sat in the coffee shop of the Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador. A third victim, Jose Rodolfo Viera, headed the Agrarian Reform Institute, which was responsible for implementing an extensive land redistribution program in which hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland are being transferred to peasants. The United States provided the military-civilian junta last year with S9O million in economic aid and $5.5 million in military sales credits for “nonlethal" equipment and training. Religious and human rights groups have criticized the assistance, charging that government forces have been involved in the violence in support of right-wing gunmen. The Carter administration suspended all aid to El Salvador after the killing of the missionaries, but resumed economic assistance after Jose Napoleon Duarte, a Christian Democrat, became president in a reorganzation of the junta. American military aid amounting to $5 million, including sales credits for the purchase of helicopters, remains suspended.

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