Stars Protest Central America Policy

A group of celebrities and experts, including television stars like I used and singe, Jackson Browne, staged a protest last might at a Dotchester theater against the Reagan. Administration's policy in Central America.

Last nights protest at the Stated Theater reinforced efforts by liberated Massachusetts activist groups to publicize the issue through a non-binding referendum on the Nov. 6 ballot.

About a quarter of the state's representative districts, including Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown and Brookline, will be vote on a proposition to sense military aid to EI Salvador, Honduras, and Guatamala and to withdraw support from the Nicaraguan "centers,"

Last night town meetingdemowaspart of the city, nation the tour organized by the Committee for Concern for Central America, a group of entertainers and former government officials who have Reagan Administration's policies there.

The program ranged from "M*A*S*H's Mike Farrell describing the fates of political prisoners in Salvador, to actress Susan Apse in reacting a story about a sadistic Latin American colonel who serve human eats as in aid dinner treat to his guests.

Among the local sponsors of last might's event was the Central America Referendum Campaign, the group that succeeded to getting the referendum on the Nov 6 ballot.

The opposition to the campaign State Son Edward P Katz Whitman said yesterday and others like it are manipulative. He said the questions are phrased in misleader ship ways, making use of "unstated assumptions."

However, Jeb Brugmann, the director of the Cambridge Commission on Nuclear Disarmament and again use that argument to prevent [the public] from getting involved.

"Getting involve was the major them of last night's rally.

Brown and that glutton and involvement in the region is essential since the politicians of both parties and the press provide a distorted picture of the issue in Central America.

Farrell called Reagan's policy "jack-booted brutish mentality" and desired military aid to EI Salvador.

"What I found there galls me," he said, referring to the human rights abuses by the Salvadoran military.