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NESTLED in a small tract of land off Francis Ave. behind the Biology Labs and in front of the Divinity School sits Harvard's strangest building. Outside, in the shadow of the labs, a little mob of preschool children are running around a makeshift, fenced-in playground. "YARD RULES," a nearby sign reads: "Smacking the windows is not allowed. Sand stays in the sandbox and off the slide...
...similar killings by the Islamic Guards, who fight alongside the regular army but are under the command of the Islamic clergy. Last February, a group of guards allegedly captured about 15 Iraqi soldiers in Gilan-e Gharb, an Iranian border town. As the P.O.W.s were being escorted to a makeshift detention center, a wounded Islamic Guard suddenly pointed at one of the Iraqis and yelled, "He killed Hamid!" The accused man was shot to death on the spot. The guards then killed the other prisoners with bullets and bayonets. On several occasions, the guards have simply led prisoners...
Cero a la Izquierda, a collective of Salvadoran filmmakers, produced these documentaries about the war and its effects on life in the FMLA-controlled Morazan region in northeastern El Salvador. The first, Morazan, depicts the running of a makeshift outdoor guerilla munitions camp. It opens with a group of teenagers solemnly passing out rifles and pistols, which they then use in mock-combat drills. The fact that the FMLA would allow the filming of a place where their guns and bombs are produced plainly indicates the political orientation of the filmmakers. But this in no way detracts from the value...
...everyone they could find. They murdered young men in groups of ten or 20, they killed mothers, babies and old people. They even shot horses. And when it was over, they attempted, in a manner reminiscent of World War II, to destroy the evidence by bulldozing the bodies into makeshift common graves. TIME Correspondent Roberto Suro visited the Sabra camp late Friday afternoon and counted 50 corpses in one place. A Red Cross worker at a nearby hospital estimated that 450 bodies had been removed from the two camps...
...spending bill was Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon, chairman of the Appropriations Committee. He threatened to work assiduously against any future defense increases if the President vetoes the legislation. If new defense appropriation measures are blocked in the Senate, the military will probably be forced to operate under makeshift "continuing resolutions" that will simply extend funding at current levels. These are roughly $500 million less per month than Reagan wants. Hatfield also pledged to work against reauthorizing spending for the C.B.I, if the bill is vetoed. These bleak prospects prompted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George...