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...help answer the questions of our fate as citizens of a great republic and watchers of "Laverne and Shirley," Dewitt highly recommends Salvador (Somerville Theater). This tale of unethical U.S. involvement in Central America came out last year--in an era when "Bonzo" films ruled the land--and drew a very small though politically conscious audience. In fact, its only major run in Boston was at the Orson Welles Theater in Cambridge, an edifice that subsequently burned down, although Dewitt has it on good authority that the film exercised no jinxing effect in that accident...
From a down-and-outer in Central America to a neurotic glandular case from New York, everyone seems to have their own answer to the Big Questions of Life. And so after wading through the varied and conflicting Weltanschauungen described above, the reader may be tempted to appeal to some sort of higher authority. As continual creator of this column, Dewitt has the advantage of having existed everywhere since the dawn of time (not to mention to added plus of owning a fantastic collection of Maurice Chevalier records). So what does this eternal sage think of life, love, death...
Palomba said the group also called for an end to United States involvement in Central America...
Siddhartha Mitter '89, head of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), said the group plans to send members to join the Washington-bound Mobilization, and Mitchell A. Orenstein '89, a member of the Committee on Central America (COCA), said members of that group will participate as well...
Orenstein said also that a group made up of local students opposing United State intervention in Southern Africa and in Central America has held organizational meetings and plans to join the April rally...