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...students, who are affiliated with the Harvard/Radcliffe Committee on El Salvador, will also ask seniors to show their concrete concern by donating money to a Central American refugee fund administered by the American Friends Services Committee (AFSC), a non-partisan Quaker group...
...campaign to include other colleges in the protest will be directed by the Harvard committee in New England and by the AFSC nationally, Matloff said. Organizers will send letters explaining the purpose of the protest and the need for money to all Harvard seniors as well as religious and activists groups on other campuses, she added...
...There is a lot of mythology in the Soviet threat that must be clarified," Russell Johnson, a member of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) told the audience...
...time and knowledge and ability to what I would broadly call the securing of peace in the world--the securing of justice." Since the 1950s the focus of his efforts has been the nuclear arms race, and he has worked closely with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), an organization that actively encourages the peaceful resolution of conflicts in the United States and abroad, to reduce what Mendelsohn considers a dangerous level of hostility in the world...
That is no small task because Mendelsohn's interests encompass "the whole area of world peace and the overcoming of the desperate arms race," says John Sullivan '38, an associate executive secretary to the AFSC's international division who has known Mendelsohn since the 1950s. In working toward...