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Protesting U.S. funding of Contras in Nicaragua, members of a peace organization yesterday erected 12 white crosses outside the Divinity School...
About 10 members of the Harvard Divinity School Peace Affinity Group raised the three-foot high crosses as a "personal expression of our grief" for the atrocities committed by the Contras in Nicaragua, said Sharon D. Welch, assistant professor of theology...
Intended to "raise the people's consciousness of the covert war that the U.S. is waging against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua," the "Crosses of Sorrow and Hope" bear the names of those killed in Nicaragua by the Contras, said Karen L. Wood, a student at the Divinity School...
Whatever the outcome, last weekend's rebellion seemed to bring to a head a long-felt yearning for democratically elected leaders. Whether a transition of power in Manila can take place without bloodshed was, as this week began, in doubt. Unlike the grisly upheavals in Iran and Nicaragua, events in the Philippines last week seemed to unfold in a kind of slow motion that augured well for civil order. "There is a lot of caution in the Filipino people," noted one Pentagon official. Marcos may try to buy time by entering into negotiations with Enrile and Ramos. Even in that...
...operations that aroused strong opposition from the watchdog committees; one example was an attempt to destabilize the Marxist government of Suriname in South America. More generally, for good or ill, the CIA seems unable to keep any sizable operation truly secret anymore: ! U.S. bankrolling of the contra rebels in Nicaragua leaked out swiftly, and the Administration and Congress are now debating quite overtly the amount and type of "covert" aid to be extended to guerrillas battling the Marxist government of Angola. Even so, Congress remains suspicious that Casey is being evasive or misleading, while the CIA suspects the legislators...