Tribunal

speaker has not assumed any public position."

Later that day, the group met with John D. Blackin, director of Central Affairs, and James Buckley, Undersecretary of State for Science, Security and Technology. A spokesman said the group was told of imformation, which the State Department released in a White Paper this week, of Cuban or Communist aid to the opposition.

The conclusions of the tribunal were based on the testimony of representatives of peasant associations, trade unions, religious organizations and academic institutions of El Salvador. Cox said the jurors sent a letter to President Reagan and to the government in El Salvador, asking them to participate, but neither responded.

The trial was part of the Permanent Tribunal of Peoples, formed in 1979 and modeled after the Bertrand Russel tribunal on the United States for its involvement in Vietnam.

The Rome-based organization will stage a hearing in May on the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Wald, who is a permanent member of the Tribunal said he will "very likely" participate.