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...plight of U.S. passenger travel is downright humiliating when it is compared with the superb services of, say, Japan, France and Britain. British trains run so close to the mark that passengers carp about a five-minute overdue arrival. Japan's celebrated bullet trains, at up to 130 m.p.h., make the U.S. counterparts seem like earthworms. Naturally such service does not come free. Britain subsidizes its trains at a yearly rate of $728 million, Japan (with less than half the U.S. track mileage) at $4.1 billion and France at $930 million...
Aidan Barry, director of the Unification Church in New England and a speaker at the rally, said yesterday CARP is "demanding the same human rights" that all groups are granted by Harvard. "If what we're saying is wrong, then people will reject it," Barry said...
...Harvard is not afraid to associate with the racist leaders of South Africa." Barry asked the sign-carrying crowd, "why are they afraid of a few young followers of the Rev. Moon?" Barry, who is a close friend of Moon, said CARP is "just trying to rent a hall that even Communists can rent...
Student reaction to the demonstration was mixed. "I think the demonstrators seem fairly innocuous and law-abiding." Jeffrey Marshall, a third-year law student said yesterday as he listened to CARP speakers in front of the Science Center. "It seems to me they are having the right to speak freely," he added...
...Itzkowitz '82 disagreed, saying the protesters were "twisting the idea" of freedom of religion, adding that CARP tries to force people to adopt its viewpoints