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THE CAPITAL TIMES, Madison, Weekend of Feb. 24, 1990 21 alvadoran jriests detailed one of the absurdities that have made of this massacre at UCA the apotheosis of irrationality in the recent history of the country. Satanas now opened with his M-16 at Revs. Montes, Moreno and Amando Lopez. Their heads exploded; brains spilled over the lawn and spattered against the exterior wall of Rev.

Martin Baros room. In the other residence, Sgt. Zar-pate Castillo was firing at Elba Julia and Marisela. In his deposi- tion, Zarpate confesses to having fired shot by shot until he was sure the women were dead. But they were not dead.

While carrying out an inspection along the corridor a moment later, Satanas heard that from inside the bedroom some people were moan- ing. He looked inside the darkened room, lit a match, and I saw two women thrown on the floor, and they were embraced and they -were moaning. So I ordered sol- dier Sierra Ascensio to make sure they were dead, and for that reason the soldier with his M-16 rifle shot a burst of automatic weapon fire, about 10 cartridges, at the bodies of these women until they stopped groaning. Abdiel Galindo, a Salvadoran landowner who fled the country in 1982 after being marked for death' by the guerrillas, now lives in Madison and regularly receives -the bulletin of Central American University. His wife, Rose Marie, graduated from the university and studied under the slain priests, whom she considers martyrs and The archbishop of San Salvador, Monsignor Arturo Riv- era Damas, and journalists viewed the bodies of six Jesuit priests gunned down last November.

Government troops tried to make it appear that guerrillas had killed the priests, but their ploy was uncovered, Baro. As this point in the account, the UCA editor inserts this comment: The assassination, at the hands of an alphabet soldier, of the rector and vice-rector of UCA, two of the most brilliant intellectuals that El Salvador has known, constitutes Those were his last words. Lt. Espinosa called to Satanas from 10 meters away, What are you waiting for? Satanas gave Pilijay the order to fire. Fast, fast, give it to them fast, Espinosa ordered as Pilijay discharged his AK-47 into Revs.

Ellacuria and Martin eallh Notices By DAN ALLEGRETTI Capital Times Staff Writer Central San Salvador, the capital city of war-torn El Salvador, arguably was the nearest place to hell in the Western Hemisphere during the dark early hours of Nov. 16, 1989. While house-to-house guerrilla warfare raged around them in the city streets that morning, several dozen elite Salvadoran Army commandos carried out a top-secret mission ordered by the colonel in charge of the nearby national military academy. It was an astoundingly brutal and bloody mission, even by the uniquely sanguinary standard set by a decade of civil war. Faces painted black, automatic rifles slung over their shoulders, impeccably trained killers known by such names as Satanas Satan and Salvaje the Savage broke through the locked gates of the prestigious Central American University and moved stealthily through the campus.

Their quarry: the Jesuit priests who ran the university and who, they had been told, formed the intellectual heads of the guerrillas. Their orders: Eliminate them. And leave no witnesses. The mission was carried out quickly and efficiently. It would stun the world no less than it would the already shell-shocked citizens of El Salvador, who were locked into a weeklong guerrilla urban offensive that would kill thousands of soldiers and guerrillas, and probably even more civilians.

The six priests inside the universitys residential compound were in fact the intellectual and religious heads of the entire Roman Catholic country: Ignacio Ellacu-ria, rector of the university; vicerector Ignacio Martin Baro, Segundo Montes, Amado Lopez, Juan Ramon Moreno and Joaquin Lopez Lopez. They did not disguise their sympathy for the poor and oppressed. Proponents of an idea known as liberation theology, to the right-wing government they were simply communists. Following their murders, and along with them their housekeeper and her teen-age daughter, the government and military were quick to blame the leftist guerrillas. Shell casings from an AK-47 rifle of the sort often carried by the guerrillas (the Salvadoran military uses American-made M-16s) were found at the scene.

So was a sign on a gate outside the priests residence: The FMLN did this execution of the spies. Victory or death. FMLN. Few Salvadorans, and even fewer foreigner observers, were fooled by the ploy. For years, Salvadoran officials had been accusing the Jesuits of assisting the guerrillas, even of commanding them, and of directing some of the murders committed by the insurgents.

Under pressure from the United States, which supplies El Salvador to the tune of $1.5 million a day, the government promised a full investigation. On Jan. 13 President Alfredo Christiani announced that investigators had learned that a portion of the elite Atlacatl Battalion, led by a colonel, had been responsible for the massacre. The assassination mission was revealed, word for word and shot by shot, in depositions given by the participants to an extrajudicial investigating panel. The colonel, three lieutenants and five enlisted men have since been charged with murder, a charge that carries up to 30 years in prison.

The Central American University (UCA in Spanish) obtained the depositions and late last month published a detailed account in its weekly bulletin, El Salvador Progreso. Unaccountably, the article has been ignored or overlooked by the foreign press. This is the story of the assassinations, destined perhaps to stand as a turning point in Salvadoran and Central American history, as told by the participants and pieced together by the university. A prelude to the massacre was staged on Nov. 13, as the guerrillas stepped up their offensive, when the Atlacatl Battalion was ordered to secure a perimeter around a crucial portion of the city.

Their sector contained the military academy, the National Intelligence Directorship, headquarters for the National Police, FOSDICK, Lyman L. Oregon GEMPELER, Henry Jacob Madison KOVARS, Irine L. Boscobel SCHEEL, Theodor W. Cambridge SPANGLER, Marie C. Madison STEPHENSON, Theodore E.

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to 4:30 p.m. Sunday Though a supporter of the Salvadoran government and, generally, of the military there, Galindo says he was sickened to learn of the militarys role in the massacre. He shared the UCA article with The Capital Times and helped translate it from Spanish. Scheel, Theodor W. CAMBRIDGE Theodor W.

Scheel, oge 76 of Cambridge, died Friday, February 23, 1990 at his home following a lingering illness. He was bom March 4, 1913 In Waterloo, the son of Ferdinand and Anna (Achmmer) Scheel. He married Irene Netland on June 30, 1935. He farmed In the town of Christiana for 53 years. He was a member of Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Deerfield.

Surviving are his wife Irene; a brother Charles of Mountain Home, Arkansas; nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Monday at Emmanuel Lutheran Church In Deerfield, Rev. Charles lies officiating. Burial will be In Kroghvllle Cemetery.

Friends may call from 4:00 until 8:00 p.m. on Sunday at the NITARDY Funeral Home In Cambridge. Memorials may be given to the Church. Spangler, Marie MADISON Marie C. Spangler, oge 92, of 3629 Alpine Road, died on Thursday, February 22, 1990, at a local nursing home.

There will be no services at this time. Schroeder-Cress Funeral Home 3325 East Washington Avenue Stephenson, Theodore E. MADISON Theodore E. Stephenson, age 84, of 745 Jenifer Street, passed away on Thursday, February 22, 1990 at University Hospital. Funeral arrangements are pending at the GUNDERSON FUNERAL HOME, 5203 Monona Drive.

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Boitllna MlddMon, Wl eliminate the intellectual heads of the guerrillas and these would be found inside the UCA. A private, Oscar Amaya Grimaldi, known as Pilijay, said they had received the order that they were going to kill some delinquent terrorists that would be found in the university UCA. The unit boarded two vehicles, both beige colored Ford Model 250 pickups. (For years, beige pickups have been linked to death squad-type murders in El Salvador.) Lt. Mendoza came out carrying an AK-47 and an M-16, and asked who knew how to use the former.

Pilijay took the AK-47, worked the mechanism, and said it was too dirty to be effective. After spending 10 minutes cleaning and oiling the rifle, he pronounced it fit and was assigned to carry it. Half of the 36 soldiers left in the pickups, wound their way through the city and pulled up near a theater where they were met by 20 to 25 more soldiers from the Atlacatl Battalion. Their orders were repeated. Espinosa told them, When we retire we will launch a flare (to signify mission accomplished) and then we will simulate an armed encounter.

Lt. Mendoza reminded Pilijay, Youre the key man. Faces painted black to match the night it now was about 1:30 a.m. on Nov. 16 the men fanned out towards the university complex.

Pilijay stayed with the two lieutenants, carrying his AK-47 openly. Hide that shit, Espinosa ordered him. Approaching the university from the south, the assassins forced an access gate and penetrated to the campus residence where Mendoza said they would find the terrorist priests. They surrounded the residence and began breaking in from several sides at once. Sgt.

Antonio Ramiro Avalos Vargas, alias Satanas (Satan), spent 10 minutes trying to break down a door with a large piece of wood. Finally a light-complected man, apparently Rev. Segundo Montes, opened the main door. Satanas took him out to the garden. Meanwhile on the other end of the dormitory, Pilijay was trying to force another door and yelling, When are you going to come out of there? You think I have time to wait for you? At that point a man dressed in a brown sleeping gown Rev.

Ellacuria, El Salvadors premier intellectual leader came to the door and said, Wait. I will open for you. But dont be making all that ruckus. At the same time Lt. Mendoza was deployed to prevent escape along an exterior corridor when be spotted in another room, sitting on a bed, a fat woman and another that was covering herself with her, at whom he shined his flashlight.

These were the cook, Elba Julia Ramos, and her daughter, Marisela, 15, who had sought asylum in the residence because they believed it would be more secure. Now Sgt. Oscar Solorzano, known as Hercules, assisted by Satanas and another soldier, took the Jesuits from their rooms. Revs. Ellacuria, Martin Baro, Juan Ramon Moreno and Amando Lopez were moved out to the garden where Rev.

Montes already had been taken. All but Rev. Martin Baro wore sleeping clothes. Satanas ordered the priests to lie face -down on the lawn. Rev.

Martin Baro yelled, This is an injustice. You people are nothing but carrion. the Ministry of Defense, residential areas where officers lived with their families and the UCA. Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides Moreno, commander of the military academy and a former chief of intelligence, ordered an Atlacatl unit to search the UCA premises.

The 135 soldiers were led by Lt. Espinosa Guerra, who in 1977 had graduated from a Jesuit high school connected with the university. The priests were used to such announced searches. But this time they noticed something different: The soldiers ignored the books, archives and other written materials that before had been the object of searches for subversive materials. Instead they averted their eyes from the priests as they took careful note of the layout of the residential complex, especially the doorways.

By Wednesday, Nov. 15, the guerrilla offensive had been going on for four days. Lt. Espinosa and 2nd Lt. Guevara Cerritos were ordered to the military school that afternoon to meet with Col.

Benavides, who called them into his office, saying, Outside there are too many people. Once inside he laid out the plan: OK, we are now playing for everything. This is a situation where it is either them or us. We will start with the head people. Inside our sector we have the university, and that is where Ellacu-ria is.

Turning to Espinosa, Benavides continued: You made the search of those people, and you know the place. Use the same method as on the day of the search, and we must eliminate them. And I dont want witnesses. Espinosa objected that such a mission was a very serious matter. Replied Benavides: Dont worry, you have my backing.

Espinosa formed four patrols of his company in front of the military school, where they were joined by two more patrols of 15 men each from another company. The mission would be commanded by Lt. Yusshy Rene Mendoza Vallecillas, section commander of the military academy, assisted by Espinosa and another lieutenant, Gonzalo Guevara Cerrito. Espinosa told the men they were going on a secretive and very delicate mission, which was ordered by superiors. They were to locate some priests inside UCA because they were the heads of the delinquent terrorists, who supported the guerrillas in everything including logistics, transmissions, and planning of attacks against military installations and the civilian population.

According to the deposition of Cpl. Angel Perez Rodriguez, who would be one of those charged with the murders, Espinosa told them they were under orders to From Page 19 tioned why Sandler who is a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington D.C. and who was previously director of the Wisconsin Union Theater faces possible firing even though the Civic Center came in under budget for the first time in its 10-year history. City officials have acknowledged that they are studying evaluations of Sandler, but they have so far refused to discuss specific problems. Fosdick, Lyman L.

OREGON Lyman L. Fosdick, age 63, of Oregon, died unexpectedly on Thursday, February 22, 1990. He was born November 29, 1927 In Madison to Walter and Nellie (Godden) Fosdick. Mr. Fosdick was employed with Oscar Mayer Co.

for 40 years as Importexport coordinator. He had served his country In the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force. He attended St.

John's Lutheran Church In Oregon and had served as secretary- treasurer for the Madison Transportation Club for many years. Mr. Fosdick was married to Yvonne Smith In 1954. He Is also survived by four children Daniel Fosdick of Naperville, Illinois, Pamela (Dan) Deegan of Oregon, Jeffrey Fosdick of Oregon and Gloria (Mitch) Behnke of Verona; two grandchildren Jessica and Dereck Deegan; a brother Clifford (Marlene) Fosdick of Madison; other relatives; and many friends. He was preceded In death by his son Sgt.

Gerald W. Fosdick; and his brother Donald. Funeral services will be held at ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH, 625 E. Netherwood, Oregon, at 11:30 a.m.

on Monday, February 26 with Reverend Joel Olsen officiating. Intombment will be at Roselawn Memorial Park. Friends may call from 2:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, Febraury 25 at the BOOTH-GUNDERSON FUNERAL HOME, 431 Soden Drive.

Oregon. Gempeler, Henry Jacob MADISON Henry Jacob Gempeler, age 71, died on Friday, February 23, 1990 after an extended illness. He was born In Monroe, Wisconsin on January 20, 1919, to Frieda Hoesly and Jacob Gempeler, Jr. He was self-employed in real estate and investments. Henry graduated from Monroe High School and the University of Kansas, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, the School of Business Society, and was a member of the Kansas Alumni Association.

He then took post-graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, and was a member of the Wisconsin Alumni Association. He was a member of Blackhawk Country Club In Madison, and the Bardmoor Country Club, Largo, Florida. He Is survived by his wife Catherine Endres Gempeler; and two sons, Henry A. (Mary) Gempeler, City Attorney of Madison, and Geoffrey J. (Madalyn) Gempeler, Gempeler Law Office In St.

Cloud, Minnesota. A son Gerard was born and died in 1959. He is also survived by five grandchildren, Michael, Bradley, James (children of Henry); Christopher and Michelle (children of Geoffrey). Funeral services will be held at OUR LADY QUEEN OF PEACE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 405 South Owen at 11:30 on Monday, February 26, with the Reverend Paul Eglsaer officiating. Burial in GREENWOOD CEMETERY, Monroe, Wisconsin, at 2:00 p.m.

Friends may call from 4:00 until 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 25, at the JOYCE FUNERAL HOME, 5701 Odana where a scripture service will be held at 7:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials are requested to be sent to the Edgewood High School Endowment Fund. Kovars, Irine L. BOSCOBEL Irine Luella Kovars (affectionately known as Grandma Irine to her family and friends), age 88, died on Thursday, February 22, 1990 at the Boscobel Memorial Hospital.

She was born on August 31, 1901 In Bode, Iowa, to the late Louis A. and Julia (Klnseth) Larson. At the age of ten she moved to Boscobel, Wisconsin with her parents. She was confirmed at the Homer Lutheran Church in 1915, and graduated from Boscobel High School In 1919. She received her teachers certification at Platteville Normal College and was a rural school teacher for four years.

Read the want ads in The Capital Times She was married to Arthur Kovars on December 25, 1923, and one daughter was born to them. Later she graduated from Madison Business College and continued her professional career as a sales clerk at JC Penney's In Boscobel. She became a bookkeeper for the Blue River Milling Company, a hostess for her son-in-law Jack Daugherty, at Riverside Nlte Club, was a companion for an elderly' lady in Sarasota, Florida, and a foster grandmother at the Holy Innocents Daycare Center for the last 11 years. She was a lifelong member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Boscobel and Its Women's Circle.

She was preceded In death by her husband, Arthur J. Kovars; her son-in-law, Jack H. Daugherty; her sister Bernice (Frank) Taylor; and her brother Lyle (Frances) Larson. She is survived by her daughter, Beth Janice Daugherty" five grandchildren, Karyn (Ted) Glasbrenner of Fennlmore, Kathy (Tim) Kinney of Spring Green, Greg (Linda) Daugherty of Fennlmore, Gary (Sandy) Daugherty of Oregon, Wisconsin, Kayla (Kevin) Gosh, Platteville; 12 great grandchildren; and numerous relatives and friends. Memorial services will be held on Saturday, February 24, 1990 at 4:00 p.m.

at ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH in Boscobel. Interment will be private. The visitation will be held at the THONI-KENDALL FUNERAL HOME In Boscobel, on Saturday, February 24, from 12:00 noon until the time of services at the church. LEGAL NOTICES STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT, PANE COUNTY PROBATE ORDER GIVING NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS AND LIMITING TIME FOR FILING CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF IWAN A.

SCHIAN An application for Informal Administration of the estate of Iwan A. Schlan, Dane County, Wisconsin, post office address 334 W. Doty Modlson, Wl 53703, having been filed with the Probate Regis trar; IT IS ORDERED THAT: 1. The application be heord at the Done County Courthouse, Madison, Wisconsin, Room 518, on March 20, 1990, at 9 00 A.M. or thereafter; 2.

All creditors' claims must be filed on or before May 21, 1990, or be barred; 3. Notice is specifically given to deceased siblings, whose names and addresses are unknown. Dated February 21, 1990 sFrances S. Rvon, Deputy Probate Registrar Mlchoel J. Lambert, Attorney 131 W.

Wilson St, 501 Madison, Wl 53703 PUB. TCT: February 24 ond March 3 ond 10, 1990 CORRECTION Due to an advertising error, the following information appears incorrectly on page 10 in your Were Still Discontinuing insert of February 22, 1990 in The Capitol Times and February 23, 1990 in The Wisconsin State Journal. The Sony XS6911 6x9 car speakers are dual cone, not 3-way as stated. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. (American Its Got To Be Good1 Sandler ter and the board and myself have come a long way, in terms of projects board development, and in terms of support of arts in the community.

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