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...community, among others, more than 200 demonstrators took over University Hall, forcibly evicting administrators who refused in leave. Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 subsequently used Cambridge police to exict the students, a move which further polarized the community. In protest, student activists died to strike classes. Less than one-fourth of the student body attended classes until a week later when 5000 students voted to suspend the strike...
Jebsen claims that an American military presence is needed to provide stability in Central America. But what kind of stability is this? As Jebsen says, right-wine death squads are murdering hundreds of innocent civilians each month. He goes on to point out that the leftist gugerillas control one-fourth of El Salvador and are growing stronger. According to Jebsen, these are reasons to leave American troops in El Salvador. He says that without American support the government that is providing all this stability would collapse. He suggests that this would result in "Marxist domination" of El Salvador...
...Only one-fourth of the student body attends classes...
...COURSE, despite these reforms, the situation in El Salvador remains bad. Right-wing death squads murder hundreds of civilians a month. Left-wing insurgents are groing in strength; they control one-fourth of the country and have brought the economy to a standstill with their constant attacks on the country's infrastructure...
...night program, set up for drug abusers who work during the day, 40% of those treated are women, almost all of them cocaine consumers. Says Kevin McEneaney, Phoenix House's senior vice president: "This is an almost unheard-of statistic. Traditionally, women have made up one-fourth to one-third of treatment-clinic populations...