California IN BRIEF : LOS ANGELES : Marchers Protest U.S. Aid to Salvador
Holding paper crosses bearing the names of six Jesuit priests murdered this week in San Salvador, about 700 people marched Saturday to MacArthur Park for a rally to protest the U.S. government’s financial involvement in El Salvador’s escalating civil war.
The high turnout for the march was fueled by concern after a week of guerrilla warfare in El Salvador culminated in the murders of the priests.
Organizers of the protest said the priests were killed by the army or right-wing death squads at the behest of the Salvadoran government, a charge the government has denied.
Father Mike Crotty of St. Vincent’s Church, and the Right Rev. Frederick Brosch, bishop of the Episcopalian diocese, were among the clergy at the rally.
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