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...town, La Romaine. It is hardly surprising that the Indians of St. Augustine, accustomed to a somewhat nomadic life in tents, were unhappy when hurled into the comparatively "civilized" French town where the already indigenous Indians were caught up in alcoholism and crime. So in the middle of a brutal Quebec winter, they left La Romaine and made their way back up the coast. Only four families survived that journey to pitch their tents near the narrow strip of riverbank where the government houses now squat. Three years ago, it was decided that tents were not, in fact, what...
...lawyer well known for serving as defense counsel to several alleged left-wing guerrillas, Frondizi was dragged from his home by the hair and shot in the back -"the way traitors are shot," his executioners explained. His son-in-law was also killed as he attempted to stop the brutal kidnaping...
...Organization for the Solidarity of Third World Students said in a leaflet that Saturday's showing of the film "attests once again to the well-known fact that Harvard University sanctions and participates in the brutal repression of Third World people on this campus and in the communities throughout the country and the world...
...this legacy from the past that presses on modernizing cities is a radical, not a reactionary one. In the brutal confrontation between old and new, the impoverished urban masses are rooted in traditions that translate into visions for the future. In Mexico, land-hungry paracaistas ("parachuters") in the cities pounce on haciendas and overnight divide them up into the plots that decades earlier their parents and grandparents farmed. In Bolivia peasants farming in the countryside set up blockades in the nation's highways and throw stones at army troops in protest of arbitrary price rises instituted by the military government...
...campaign was not intended to lead to a purge, and it was controlled-with "surgical precision," as a Canadian analyst put it-when it threatened to become too disruptive. Last August an article in the theoretical journal Red Flag blamed internal bickering and factionalism for the fall of the brutal, short-lived Chin dynasty of the 3rd century B.C. This subtle piece of historical allegory was written by one Lo Szu-ting; Sinologists regard him as a spokesman for Mao-if not Mao himself writing under a pen name. Since then, there has been scarcely a murmur from the radicals...