El Salvador, the sunny republic on Central America's Pacific Coast where a handful of banking and coffee-planting families dominate a tightly packed population of 2,520,000, broke out last week in rioting and gunfire. The bloodshed grew out of a clash early this month between students and other oppositionists and the cops of Colonel-President José Maria Lemus. When the oppositionists tried to demonstrate in the capital of San Salvador against a new law regulating the right of assembly, police beat one student to death, injured 350 other persons and raped jailed schoolgirls. Ten thousand citizens marched behind the dead...
EL SALVADOR: Gunfire in the Sun
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