The World - News from July 23, 1989

Four powerful explosions ripped through El Salvador’s Jesuit university in San Salvador, seriously damaging printing facilities but causing no injuries, officials said. Police experts also deactivated two more bombs in the print shop at Simeon Canas Central American University, and officials said employees sleeping nearby narrowly escaped injury. No group claimed responsibility, but university officials said they suspect rightist groups were behind the attack, one of more than 20 since the late 1970s. “This has to do with paramilitary squadrons,” said Father Martin Barro, assistant rector. “These bombs (are part of) a military campaign against the university and the Jesuits.” The Jesuits have been accused of sympathizing with leftist rebels.