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...President Nathan M. Pusey '28, 75 state troopers armed with nightsticks stormed the building violently evicted the students and injured several. Fortunately, no one was killed. The same cannot be said of the infamous Kent State incident in May of 1970, where four students were shot dead by National Guardsmen while protesting the war in Vietnam...
...Sandinistas, who hope that an end of the war will allow them to devote their limited resources to resuscitating Nicaragua's comatose economy. In compliance with the agreement, the Sandinistas released 100 political prisoners last week; the remaining 1,432 political prisoners and 1,822 former National Guardsmen are to be freed in stages. Moreover, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra called on Reagan to honor a pledge made in November to resume talks with Managua once the Sandinistas and contras began "serious negotiations...
...from bases as close as Colorado and as distant as Korea. Much of the costly $1.2 million exercise is calculated to impress Congress. It provides comparative statistics measuring the high-tech F-16 against older planes such as the F-4s, A-10s and A-7s flown by Guardsmen and some reservists. Computerized bombing, applied by man, usually triumphs, and the Air Force needs the results to justify an increasingly high-tech budget. Gunsmoke's backdrop is 3 million acres of training range just north of the slot machines and bright lights...
...state is considering court action to prevent the Reagan administration from sending Massachusetts National Guardsmen to Central America...
Until this week, Dukakis had said he would oppose the assignment of Massachusetts guardsmen to Central America. Dukakis argued that the assignment was part of the Reagan administration's overall policy of attempting to destabilize the Nicaraguan Sandinista government...