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...middle ranks of the Communist Party and the government's security organization. Said one Eastern Europe expert: "Given the ease with which the group organized the rally and distributed leaflets, it is evident that the people behind the new movement are close to the police and power apparatus." One Bonn Foreign Ministry official, however, suspected a more elevated figure: "Mieczyslaw Moczar is back in the power structure. This could be his work...
...chapter, Wat and Simsa use code words when planning the school's curriculum, to disguise its purpose. Here, the language of death is couched in apparently harmless acronyms: CURMODEX for 'Curriculum in Modern Execution,' GENTO for 'General Torture,' HANAP and TINA for 'hanging apparatus' and 'guillotine', respectively. A proposed weekly schedule contains such course topics as CURMODEX, 'computing voltage (by both methods) and practice with simulator; PSYCH, 'torture at Christmas time' or 'importance of humor...
...Civil War, the paramilitary Guardia Civil was already a widely feared institution in Spain. Since its formation in 1844 during the Bourbon monarchy, the corps had been the efficient internal security force of the central government in Madrid. Under Franco, it became part of the dictatorship's apparatus of repression. For many Spaniards, the gray-green uniform and the black patent-leather cap remain symbols of reaction and oppression. Thus hardly anyone in Spain was surprised last week when the coup attempt turned out to be spearheaded by men from the corps's traffic division...
Epps offered the exclusive option to the agency because "HSA seemed the logical alternative" to HDNS, Howe said, adding that "because HSA already has a delivery system, more than any other group it has the apparatus" in place to begin delivery promptly...
...only among conservatives. Says one self-styled "committed liberal and unapologetic Democrat," Arizona's Governor Bruce Babbitt: "The federal system is in complete disarray." The Nation al Governors' Association last summer unanimously demanded that Congress and the President create a commission to diagnose the whole governmental apparatus and propose some sorting out of powers. An equally urgent plea for a realignment of powers came last summer from the Advisory C mission on Intergovernmental Relations, whose members include Congressmen, Governors, state legislators, mayors, county officials and private citizens...