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Like their big brothers in Washington, the Harvard administration doesn't care at all about "free speech." They try to crush students who mobilize against the architects of an anticommunist bloodbath in Central America because when they look at EI Salvador and Nicaragua, they see the possibility of the Russian Revolution happening all over again. They see the overthrow of capitalism, the ripping away of their markets, their profits, an end to the despotic rule of the landlords, bosses, military, and the specter of workers and peasants taking power--as was done in 1917 in Russia under the leadership...
...nations of Central America, have been going on since January 1983. The U.S. has grave reservations about the treaty as it stands. Among other flaws, say U.S. diplomats, the document would require the U.S. to halt military aid to El Salvador immediately, without stopping Soviet and Cuban assistance to Nicaragua. The Contadora nations, on the other hand, evidently feel that the U.S. is stalling. "We cannot clearly understand the opposition of the U.S. to the Contadora draft treaty," Mexican Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor told TIME editors last week. "I don't think we can go on forever negotiating...
...according to a confidential internal document leaked to the U.S. embassy in Managua, intend "to introduce our electoral campaign into the U.S. electoral campaign." Whatever the Nicaraguan motives, TIME has learned that the anti-Sandinista rebels known as contrasindeed have plans to launch a series of attacks in Nicaragua within the next two weeks. According to contra spokesmen, the offensive would be the first in which the various rebel groups strike simultaneously, forcing the Sandinistas to spread their defenses more thinly than in the past...
...Sandinista Directorate Member Bayardo Arce Castano apparently agreed in Rio to postpone the balloting until Jan. 13. But the deal fell apart, according to some of those at the Rio gathering, when the Sandinistas refused to allow Cruz a three-day delay to consult with his allies in Nicaragua...
...left-of-center Committee on Central America, which opposes United State involvement in Nicaragua and El Salvador, has also seen its membership increase to 50 from just 15 last year, said spokesman Eva Harris...