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HOMERUN BALL DRAWS 1M BID
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The opening bid for baseball's record-breaking homerun ball was set at $1 million yesterday. An anonymous baseball fan offered the huge sum to draw attention to a matter close to his heartwhat he calls "unresolved human-rights issues in El Salvador," including the killing of four U.S. churchwomen there in 1980. The man says he wants to remain anonymous because two senior Salvadoran military officials who he says "may have ordered and almost certainly participated in a coverup of the murder" are living in Florida. The two men, who have been identified as Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova and Jose Guillermo Garcia birkenstock clogs, are "living high," their lifestyles "bankrolled by the U.S. taxpayer," he said. The anonymous fan contacted the Daily News through a representative of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, which has represented the families of the four churchwomen and which is working to promote human rights in El Salvador. Michael Posner, president of the committee, said the man is offering the $1 million price to get his hands on historic homerun ball No. 62, which probably will be hit by either Mark McGwire of the Cardinals or Sammy Sosa of the Cubs. Once he has the ball, he'll offer it at auction, the anonymous man said. "Actually, I'm offering a million-dollar annuity, just like the lottery$50 Cheap Oakley Sunglasses,000 a year for 20 years," he said in a telephone interview arranged by Posner. If the auctioned ball brings more than the cost of the annuity, he said, the excess will go to the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights. Four former Salvadoran National Guardsmen were convicted of the murders of Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan Birkenstock Women Sparta, Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel, who were abducted, raped and shot to death on Dec. 2, 1980. Earlier this year, the guardsmen said they acted on orders from their superiors. "We sent $7 billion in aid to El Salvador," the anonymous man said. "The United Nations Truth Commission said these two men were involved in a coverup of the murders. "When you enter the country, the first question you're asked is: 'Have you ever knowingly committed any crime of moral turpitude for which you have not been convicted?' I believe they lied on their applications, and I hope their case is reopened."Topics related articles?
