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...dozen Harvard students joined ranks Saturday afternoon with more than 200 bedraggled opponents of continued U.S. aid to El Salvador in a four-mile protest march through Boston...
Shouting "Stop the bombing, stop the war, U.S. out of El Salvador," and "Money for education, not for war," the protesters braved sporadic rainfall as they proceeded from the Boston Common into the North End and back again...
Organizers said the event raised $15,000 for the groups involved, as well as heightening community consciousness about El Salvador. Similar marches were scheduled nationwide to galvanize support for a 50 percent cut in U.S. aid to El Salvador...
...Allende is here!" shouted the thousands who gathered to witness the reburial of a former President. In a government-sanctioned ceremony, the remains of Salvador Allende Gossens were moved from a family plot to Santiago's central cemetery, alongside Chile's other past presidents. A Marxist who tried to introduce radical reform, Allende died, reputedly a suicide, as troops stormed the presidential palace during a 1973 coup that led to 16 years of military rule. Current President Patricio Aylwin, who supported Allende's ouster but quickly tired of rule by the generals, was faint in his praise of Allende...
...without making some damningly racist assumptions. And rectifying the injustices of our grandfathers is no easy task, least of all in a country made up of refugees and immigrants and minorities of one, many of whom have lived through the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge, the unending atrocities of El Salvador. Sympathy cannot be legislated any more than kindness...