Word: el
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suddenly I had a very vivid sense of how terrifying it would be to live in El Salvador, how terrifying it would be not to know when your fellow academics might disappear into a maelstrom of political violence. I also had the sense that the COCA's were having a hell of a time waving around guns and scaring the hell out of people. Many students who joined the Red Guard or Hitler's Brown Shirts had the same pleasures. But it seemed like a good cause...
...memo, sent by Harvard's Committee on Central America (COCA) to 900 male undergraduates, was cleverly designed to play upon the public outrage generated by the brutal murders of six Jesuit priests last week by right-wing death squads in El Salvador...
...hereby ordered for induction to the Armed Forces of the United States, for service in El Salvador. You are to report at Cambridge Ringe and Latin High School on 11/18/89...
...time of crisis in El Salvador, we felt this was the best way to make it perfectly clear that the situation affects all of us, especially males who may be drafted into military service...
...said that COCA plans to rally today at Kerry's downtown office to protest the senator's refusal to support a bill that would make U.S. military aid to El Salvador contingent upon human rights investigations...