The World - News from July 22, 1988

Salvadoran police fired tear gas into a crowd of about 5,000 demonstrating students and workers, injuring at least one person in the worst violence to erupt during a protest march in the capital of San Salvador this year. The march was organized by a labor federation and university students to protest lack of government funding for the state university and a proposed law that would permit militarization of public and private enterprises if a labor dispute threatened to interrupt a vital public service. Some marchers fired shots in the air, deflated the tires of four city buses and set another bus on fire before the demonstration was broken up.