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...council also passed a resolution in memory of the recent killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter by uniformed assassins at the University of Central America in EI Salvador. The measure called for "an end to all military aid and intervention in EI Salvador...
Nancy Ryan, a coordinator for Cambridge's "sister-city" relationship with San Jose Las Flores in EI Salvador, said, "We should understand that the Jesuits were under the protection of the army at the time of their killing...
...slayings of six Jesuit priests by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military, we postponed the teach-in. Although the draft cards were already sent, COCA felt it was more important to join in the nationwide effort to pressure Congress into calling for an immediate end to U.S. military aid to EI Salvador...
...joining in the efforts to bring emergency medical relief to the people of EI Salvador and to pressure Congress, we accomplished more than we would have had we restricted our activity to the Harvard campus during this pivotal weekend...
Andrew Bates criticized COCA for what he sees as our blind eye to human rights abuse in Nicaragua. To in any way compare polling policy in Sandinista-led Nicaragua to the genocide enacted by ARENA-led EI Salvador shows unspeakable disrespect for human rights by making all offenses equal. Bates' piece also cheapens the lives of all Central Americans by submitting to the terms of a cold-war discourse (and along the way forgetting that while Soviet aid to Nicaragua began during Carter's presidency, so did U.S. aid to contras...