Word: nicaragua
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Approximately 35 Harvard students and faculty members joined more than 600 protesters in down-town Boston yesterday calling for the end of U.S. involvement in Nicaragua...
...call to action yesterday was in response to President Ronald Reagan's request for $100 million in aid to the Contras in Nicaragua, slated to go before the House of Representatives today, group officials said...
Demonstrators outside the buildings held banners, wore cardboard gravestones of people killed by the Contras, and carried signs with facts about Nicaragua. A banner hanging from a nearby rooftop read: "Help Wanted--terrorists, torturers, rapists, murderers for Contra army. Apply at Central Intelligence Agency, 30 Winter St, Boston...
Those demonstrators practicing civil disobedience sat in front of the bank building, blocking access and effectively closing it. Police and employees looked on while the protesters chanted "USA! CIA! Out of Nicaragua," "The Contras work for the CIA and the CIA works here," told about their experiences in Central America and read letters written by Nicaraguans about Contra atrocities...
...crucially important that our representatives in Congress know that we are not going to support the war in Nicaragua. Giving aid to the Contras is against both U.S. and international law," she said...