The Region - News from April 23, 1987

A speech by El Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte May 1 will not be held at Pacific Grove, near Monterey, because of a planned demonstration, said Casimir Yost, executive director of the World Affairs Council of Northern California. Yost said the speech may be given instead at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey because it affords better security. The decision to cancel Duarte’s appearance in Pacific Grove was made after Jerry Friedberg, a Watsonville educator and coordinator of the Coalition for Peace and Life in El Salvador, said there will be a demonstration against Duarte to protest human rights violations in his country and U.S. involvement in El Salvador’s civil war.