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...where the bathrooms were and how to make his way around the cavernous Russell Senate Office Building, Kerry got a tip from a Vietnam veteran that the Reagan Administration was illegally providing aid to the contra rebels, circumventing a congressional ban. Within weeks he was on a plane to Nicaragua with another freshman Senator, Tom Harkin, for a 36-hour fact-finding trip. Secretary of State George Shultz accused the rookies of being "used" by the Managua regime. "It was a very painful time for us," recalls Jonathan Winer, Kerry's general counsel at the time. But that...
Iken G. Joseph, a sophomore at Williams College, said he will take a 10-day trip to Nicaragua with a group of classmates next month to administer eye exams to that nation’s poor...
Barth finds some of this purpose in baseball. A four-year member of Harvard’s JV baseball team, Barth has spent his college summers, traveling Nicaragua, Mexico, and around the United States as part of the “Athletes in Action” Christian missionary program, playing baseball and sharing his faith with fellow athletes...
...result, 700,000 Ghanians lost access to HIV prevention services—including education, testing and counseling. Then there’s the case of condoms. When an NGO loses its funding, it also stops receiving condom donations from the U.S. government. Thousands of individuals from Nicaragua, Uganda and other nations must now do without...
Although Morse describes the task as “daunting,” the students’ careful planning paid off. “Everyone played a really huge role in making sure it happened,” says Morse. Once in Nicaragua, the group had discussions with an astonishing array of political figures, including Violeta Chamorro, Nicaragua’s first democratically elected president. Each night, the students would gather to discuss the day’s events and formulate questions for the following...