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Also ready to go to the barricades in support of the Nicaraguan government is U.S. Out of Central America, a socialist organization that publishes a newsletter, Central America Alert, and tries to unite its cause with those of antinuclear, civil rights and feminist operations. Another group, called Madre, the Spanish word for "mother," pairs U.S. day-care centers with schools in Nicaragua, setting up pen-pal relationships between the children. Meanwhile, American parents and teachers send money and medical supplies to their Nicaraguan counterparts...
...stroke, Gorbachev had taken the arms talks public and implied that a summit was linked to progress in Geneva. The warm words from Washington, it seemed, had only brought another Soviet negotiating gambit. Gorbachev had timed the announcement for maximum effect. It coincided with antinuclear demonstrations in Europe and came on the eve of a visit by a U.S. congressional delegation. It came, as well, just two days before the arrival of the Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, the one NATO country still deciding whether to install U.S. missiles. If the Dutch proceed, deployment would begin Nov. 1; Gorbachev...
Ellsberg is also concerned with the antinuclear movement and Central America. The onetime Rand Corp. analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg, 54, lives in Kensington, Calif., near Berkeley. He was a founder of the Mobilization for Survival, a coalition of antinuke groups, and in 1978 joined a sit-in to blockade the Rocky Flats nuclear installation in Colorado. Ellsberg is a traveling college lecturer, telling audiences that the undeclared war syndrome is recurring. "The time for a new Viet Nam seems certainly at hand," he says. "In Central America we are at about the 1961 stage of involvement...
Seven participants in last June's antinuclear protest of an AVCO Systems plant went to court last week on charges of trespassing. Cambridge resident Susan L. Redlich was among the seven, who are the first of O people arrested in the incident...
Moreover, U.S. policymakers are worried about the strides of antinuclear movements elsewhere. Japan officially forbids the entry of nuclear weapons into its ports but does not insist in practice that the policy be scrupulously followed. Beyond that, the U.S. fears that New Zealand's stand could refuel the antinuclear movement in Western Europe, where West German, British, Dutch and Belgian activists are trying to bar the continued deployment of U.S. medium-range cruise and Pershing II missiles...