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...champion of nonviolence and human rights, shot dead during a Mass six days earlier by a lone assassin who was suspected of being an ultrarightist gunman. What turned the funeral into El Salvador's bloodiest episode this year was an explosion, either a genuine hand bomb or a "leaflet bomb" that flings handbills in the air. It occurred at the edge of Plaza Barrios where an estimated 50,000 mourners were gathered for the outdoor service for the archbishop. Armed leftist militants, primed for possible rightist provocation, apparently panicked at the blast and began firing wildly, sending the crowd...
About 50 students have protested the offer of tenure to Lawrence W. Levine, professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley. The students maintain that Levine is not committed to teaching Afro-American studies and that he is not qualified for tenure in the department. A leaflet written by the students states that Levine is currently doing research in Jewish studies and some students have objected to what they believe is an offer to Levine to chair the department...
...notion that Iranians hate America has been especially good for fostering ugly and irrational anti-Iranian feelings in Americans. But a leaflet distributed in America during the revolution dispels this myth. It urges Americans not connected to the Shah's regime to spread the "message that Iranians are opposed to the interference policies of foreign governments..but not against foreign people." People of the third world bear no hostility to people of good will in this or any nation. They fight the power structure and the multinational corporations that have sadly come to represent America abroad...
Today's K.K.K. units are also trying to recruit children. In more than a dozen cities throughout the country, Klan sympathizers have distributed leaflets to high school students asking: "Are you 'fed up to here' with black, chicano and [Oriental] criminals who break into lockers and steal your clothes and wallets?" The solution, according to the leaflet, is to join the Klan Youth Corps. At a K.K.K. summer camp in Jefferson County, Ala., robed counselors teach girls and boys ages ten to 18 the fundamentals of race supremacy and how to use guns. Near Decatur...
...committee asked the University to publicize the meager study abroad options which Harvard does offer. This year, for the first time, the Council had the University print a pamphlet on study abroad and enclose it in students' registration packets. Students requested a flexible study abroad program. They got a leaflet in return...