California IN BRIEF : LOS ANGELES : 700 Protest U.S. Aid to El Salvador

Holding paper crosses bearing the names of six Jesuit priests murdered this week in San Salvador, about 700 people marched 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 mile-long march was fueled by concern after a week of intense guerrilla warfare in El Salvador culminated in the murders of the priests in the capital city, said organizers who have frequently held rallies that have drawn fewer people. “I haven’t come out for a long time to protest,” said painter Antonio Bernal. “But things have gotten so bad that we have to do as much as we can to stop the killings.”