ESTIMATED PUB DATE - TITLE DELETED - AMERICAN PRIEST MURDERED IN GUATEMALA

Created: 2/1/1982

OCR scan of the original document, errors are possible

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ILLER WAS STRUCK BY SEVERAL BULLETS IN THE CHEST AND NECK WHEN FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MEN OPENED FIRE ON HIM FROM CAR AND THEN SPED OFF. fWL^LW

THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ORDER HAS FACILITIES IN FIVE LOCATIONS INOF WHICH. CITIZENS IN RESIDENCE. THEAND NUMBER ARE: , AND HUEHUETENANGO THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS', ALSO KNOWN AS THE LA SALLE BROTHERS ORDER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, MISSION IS BUILT AROUND SCHOOLS TO TEACH THE POOR. IN HIS LAST POSITION MILLER, KNOWN AS BROTHER SANTIAGO, PROVIDED CARE AND EDUCATION FOROUNG INDIANS OF THE GUATEMALAN HIGHLANDS WHO ARE IN TRAINING TO BEIN THE RURAL, INDIAN

HAD ARRIVED HE IS THE THIRD AMERICAN

TO HAVE BEENNCE THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT HAD DECIDED ONEBRUARY THAT BECAUSE OF THE

DANGER TO FOREIGN CLERGY IN<CUATEMALA,>IT WOULD NO LONGER PERMIT RELIGIOUS WORKERS TO ENTER THE COUNTRY AS MISSIONARIES UNLESS THEY HAD PERMANENT RESIDENCE STATUS. IN THE PAST, MANY MISSIONARIES HAD ENTERED WITH TOURIST CARDS AND SOUGHT TO ADJUST THEIR STATUS AFTER THEIR ARRIVAL. THE NEW ORDER REQUIRES PRIOR SPONSORSHIP AND

TO ENTER AND EXIT<GUATEMALA;>IT APPLIES TO ALL RELIGIOUS WORKERS REGARDLESS OF AFFILIATION.

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