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Alienation and fear are a miniscule price to pay for increased dialogue and enlightenment about U.S. policy in Central America. Our original plan had been to follow up on interest generated by the draft cards with a teach-in Friday afternoon. Educational forums such as teach-ins are consistent with COCA's objective of educating the Harvard community...
COCA's other main objective is to work with the people of Central America for social and political change. Thus, when we learned on Thursday of the slayings of six Jesuit priests by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military, we postponed the teach-in. Although the draft cards were already sent, COCA felt it was more important to join in the nationwide effort to pressure Congress into calling for an immediate end to U.S. military aid to EI Salvador...
COCA's true (and successful) intentions were to stimulate discussion over escalating U.S. involvement in EI Salvador. We invite the Harvard community to join us for further discussion today in our teach-in at 11 a.m. on the steps of Memorial Church. Harvard-Radcliffe Committee on Central America
...police vehicles, two-way intercom systems so that trouble can be reported instantly, and cash awards to students who report problems. Along with the usual fire drills, some schools in Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland have scheduled "yellow-code alerts" for classes from kindergarten up. "We have to teach students to hit the deck when the bullets fly," explains one preparedness expert...
...name will not appear on the ballot. He must educate Brazilian voters to mark the box labeled Armando Correa, an evangelist who stepped aside for Santos as the candidate of the tiny Municipalist Party, which fields many evangelist candidates. That may prove a difficult lesson to teach in a country with a high degree of illiteracy...