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...James A. Garrison, a student at the Divinity School, and two other members of the anti-nuclear group were arrested after conducting a sit-in at the Boston Edison Company's office at the Prudential Center...
...conference participants are all leaders of the World Peace Council, a Helsinki-based organization, that has never before been allowed to meet in the United States, James Garrison, a founder of the Harvard-Radcliffe Anti-Nuclear Alliance, one of the groups sponsoring the conference, said yesterday...
DIED. John Franklin Wharton, 83, lawyer, author (Life Among the Playwrights) and inventive behind-the-scenes presence on Broadway; of emphysema; in Manhattan. As a member and founder of the prestigious law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, Wharton had a variety of businesses for clients. His longtime love of the theater and entrepreneurial genius made him an imaginative adviser and friend of producers, playwrights and songwriters. In 1938 he helped form the Playwrights Producing Co., which gave its member-writers (Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood and others) control over their own works through bypassing producers. More recently Wharton...
...weeks ago another military encounter took place in Ocotal. A guerrilla force descended from the mountains, overpowered the army garrison and held the town for several hours before enemy air attacks forced them to withdraw. The assault on Ocotal was part of a nationwide offensive launched by a well-organized rebel force taking its name and inspiration from Sandino: the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). The Sandinistas' opponents were not North Americans (save for the Viet Nam veterans paid to operate helicopter gunships against the guerrillas) but Nicaragua's own National Guard. Begun in the days of Sandino, the National...
...story of Karen Silkwood can not be seen as an isolated case, but rather as an example of a conscious government policy to harass nuclear dissidents," Garrison said...