Dr. Edward T. Brett This is Me

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1. 1. Sunday North Bulletin Board

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   Published on: 10/30/2005   Last Visited: 10/30/2005

   McCandless -- Edward Brett, professor of history at La Roche College and co-author of "Murdered in Central America," will speak during a Day of Recollection to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the murders of four missionaries in Central America from 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Kearns Spirituality Center, 9000 Babcock Blvd. Free. Call 412-635-6314.

2. 2. DAY OF REMEMBRANCE ~ Sisters of Divine Providence

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   Published on: 10/16/2004   Last Visited: 10/30/2005

   Also speaking will be Dr. Edward T. Brett, chair of the history department at La Roche and co-author of the Christopher Award winning Murdered in Central America and The US Catholic Press on Central America: From Cold War Anticommunism to Social Justice.

3. 3. Program to honor nuns, missionary whose deaths stopped El Salvador killings

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   Published on: 10/31/2005   Last Visited: 10/31/2005

   Father Schindler will join Sister Christine Rody, who also worked with the murdered women, and Ed Brett, chair of the history department at LaRoche College, who has written about the impact of their deaths on U.S. policy, for a free program at the Kearns Spirituality Center.
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   Miss Donovan, whose father was an executive with a company that made military helicopters and had close ties to the impending Reagan administration, told her parents that if Reagan won, "there would be a bloodbath in El Salvador," said Dr. Brett.
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   Catholic publications that did not ordinarily address foreign policy wrote endless headlines on human rights in El Salvador, Dr. Brett said. The Catholic bishops drove the issue home on Capitol Hill.
   
   "This had never really happened before in U.S. history, with the church acting with such force on a foreign policy issue," Dr. Brett said.
   
   Dr. Brett and Father Schindler say that many factors led to democracy in El Salvador 15 years ago. The fall of Soviet communism lessened the perceived need to support self-proclaimed anti-communists. Salvadoran corruption disgusted even staunch hawks in Washington. The United Nations brokered a truce in the civil war.
   
   But the women's deaths "played a very large role in this. They made the United States, the church and the people, aware of what was going on down there," Dr. Brett said.
   
   He believes that U.S. support for the Salvadoran government in the 1980s was far less than it would have been otherwise, due to this pressure from the church.