The World - News from June 8, 1987

San Salvador Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas condemned the occupation of the Metropolitan Cathedral by a human rights group as “intolerable” in light of the nation’s “incipient democracy.” About 50 women belonging to the Oscar Arnulfo Romero Committee of Mothers of the Disappeared and Political Prisoners, known as COMADRES, began their occupation of the cathedral Saturday and pledged to remain indefinitely. They also began a hunger strike to demand freedom for three union leaders reportedly arrested by the army May 1. The military and U.S. Embassy officials say the group is a front for leftist rebels.