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Christopher S. Forman '83, president of the Conservative Club, said yesterday that although none of the clubs sponsored the demonstration, most of the participants were members of the clubs. "It was a non-partisan group counter-demonstration, and there was no intent to disrupt the talk," Forman said
...days before proportional representation, before the Progressive Era, Cambridge selected its leaders by wards. Non-partisan conventions would nominate candidates for each of the five wards; the top vote-getters would win one of the ten seats. In its December 3rd issue, the Chronicle reported the proceedings of the nominating process under the headlines "POLITICAL!" "Charles River Railroad vs. The People...League Made with the Prohibitionists...
...students, who are affiliated with the Harvard/Radcliffe Committee on El Salvador, will also ask seniors to show their concrete concern by donating money to a Central American refugee fund administered by the American Friends Services Committee (AFSC), a non-partisan Quaker group...
...Salvador Legal Aid Commission--a non-partisan organization established with the support of San Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero (assassinated last year for his criticisms of the government)--states that the most recent "cleanup" offensive occured last month. According to their reports, 798 persons were killed in El Salvador between March 7 and March 13, 681 of whom were peasants attacked by government planes and helicopters in Chalatenango and Morazon. Since the offensive began, the government has periodically closed off the area to church groups and the press...
...reliable are these reports from nuns and human rights organizations? Are they really, as Mathis claims, "probably the creation of people trying to discredit the El Salvadorean government"? Most of these groups and individuals are non-partisan and far from leftist. They are simply concerned with violations of human life and rights, and the more outspoken members are often persecuted by security forces for their disclosures and condemnations...