Alfredo Christiani

President Alfredo Cristiani said Saturday that the official investigation into last month's assassinations of six Jesuit priests is focusing on the Salvadoran armed forces, but he refused to blame the murders on the military. Cristiani said FBI and Salvadoran investigators have the names of all soldiers posted in the area of Central American University on Nov. 16, the night the priests, their cook and her daughter were shot to death at the Jesuit residence there.

President Alfredo Cristiani said Saturday that the official investigation into last month's assassinations of six Jesuit priests is focusing on the Salvadoran armed forces, but he refused to blame the murders on the military. Cristiani said FBI and Salvadoran investigators have the names of all soldiers posted in the area of Central American University on Nov. 16, the night the priests, their cook and her daughter were shot to death at the Jesuit residence there.

A group of Pomona Valley religious leaders organized a demonstration at the Covina office of Rep. David Dreier (R-La Verne) Tuesday to urge him to support a reduction in military aid to El Salvador. The Pomona Valley Council of Churches, which represents 76 churches from Diamond Bar to Rancho Cucamonga, adopted a resolution June 5 authorizing its El Salvadoran Committee to meet with Dreier, express outrage over attacks against religious workers and urge him to curb military aid.

Guillermo Manuel Ungo, vice president of the Socialist International and the principal leader of El Salvador's unarmed leftist opposition, died in a hospital here Thursday of complications from surgery. Although he was a social democrat in a country long dominated by the military and extreme right, Ungo, 62, was a major figure in Salvadoran politics for more than 20 years.

The Reagan Administration continues to claim that there has been steady progress in El Salvador with regard to improvements in human rights and the advancement of the democratic process. Our recent delegation there, whose members also included Assemblyman Tom Bates (D-Oakland), Fathers Luis Olivares and Michael Kennedy of La Placita Catholic Church, Rev. Don Lewis of St. Edmund's Episcopal Church, Prof. Terry Lynn Karl of Stanford University and staff members from Proyecto Pastoral, found the situation very different from that assessment.