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...constantly placed in the position of having to defend America's foreign policy. The critics were not the usual anti-U.S. protagonists. Rather, they were generally self-described supporters of the U.S. The criticism was aimed not at such traditionally deplorable foreign policy targets as U.S. intervention in Nicaragua. Instead, people were dismayed with America's way of responding to universally agreed upon trouble areas, like terrorism and international trade...
About 200 protesters gathered at Cambridge City Hall yesterday evening to rally against U.S. aid to Nicaragua and a rash of break-ins in the offices of local liberal political organizations...
...which would have expired in 1985, as "obsolete, unratified and being violated." He stressed that the Administration is interested in drastic reductions in nuclear arsenals and said that from now on the U.S. will decide its arms policy on Soviet behavior, including human rights violations and actions in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Cambodia...
...joined the Committee on Central America(COCA) and began helping to organize educationalsessions, such as slide shows, and demonstrationsprotesting U.S. involvement in Central America. Ata demonstration last spring protesting theAmerican embargo of Nicaragua, Kenworthy wasarrested, along with 550 others. "I was glad tosee there were so many committed people againstthe U.S. policy in Latin America," he saysmatter-of-factly...
Kenworthy plans to go to the University ofWisconsin to get a PhD in Sociology, and he sayshe'd like to be a professor and raise thepolitical awareness of people in America. "I thinkwe can learn a lot from the people of Nicaragua,where health care and education are free. It willbe a long process, but being a professor, I canhave the most impact."LANE A. KENWORTHY (right...