The World - News from March 17, 1988
Demonstrators opposed to Sunday’s National Assembly and mayoral elections in El Salvador went on a stone-throwing, car-burning rampage in San Salvador after riot police fired tear-gas at them. About 1,000 students, teachers and university workers marched from the National University chanting “No to elections with repression!” The march began peacefully but turned violent when police lobbed tear gas after demonstrators tried to push past a line of officers outside the Treasury Ministry.
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