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Prior to Monday night's meeting, six Councillors spoke at a vigil outside City Hall protesting the bombing of Cambridge's sister city in El Salvador, San Jose las Flores. Helicopter units of the El Salvadoran army attacked the village on April 27, according to David Grosser, chairman of the Cambridge-El Salvador Sister City Project...
Dozens of settlers waving an Israeli flag later held a nighttime vigil about a half a mile from Beita, and said they would build a new settlement in the area. Army officials said the settlers left after several hours at the urging of troops who surrounded the village...
Outside yesterday's meeting, almost 100 students, including members of the Black Student Union and a campus Hispanic group, held a silent vigil in favor of the change. Many students held posters with the name of a book and an author not included in the program's core list of 15 books, Katz said...
...President Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev begin to hash out the final details in Washington this week, representatives from several area disarmament organizations, including the Coalition for Nuclear Test Ban, Mobility for Survival, and Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility appeared in force at this candlelight vigil and march for peace...
...Geneva, Shultz and Shevardnadze agreed on verification procedures that once seemed unattainable. Among other things, U.S. inspectors will mount an on-the-scene, round-the-clock vigil at a Soviet missile-assembly plant near the Ural Mountains to see what goes in and comes out; Soviet watchdogs will do the same at a U.S. plant in Magna, Utah. With that issue settled, Reagan and Gorbachev on Tuesday afternoon can stage the grand signing ceremony for the INF (intermediate nuclear forces) treaty that is the ostensible reason for the summit...