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...three of their colleagues to death in dark alleys as part of a deliberate campaign of terror. Heavy guard details have trailed diplomats in Montevideo since July, when Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas shed their Robin Hood image and wantonly murdered a political hostage. Canada was still tense following the brutal murder by fanatic Quebec separatists of a government official; a small band of terrorists, trying to blackmail the government, succeeded in frightening the entire country and forcing the suspension of some civil liberties...
...Dominican Republic, it is brutal business as usual. Since conservative President Joaquin Balaguer was elected to a second term last May, there have been at least 60 political killings, by both the left and the right. Most of the radical M.P.D. (Dominican Popular Movement) leaders have been killed or have escaped to Cuba. That has left the field open to so-called "clandestine commandos," M.P.D. dropouts and bandits who have been known to shoot a policeman just...
...have crushed the rural-based guerrillas who once owned the mountainous northeast, but now the survivors are operating in Guatemala City. As many as 500 F.A.R. (Rebel Armed Forces) terrorists specialize in kidnaping and assassinations. The 1968 murder of U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein by F.A.R. terrorists was the brutal inaugural of the diplomatic kidnapings in Latin America. Last April, when the government balked at freeing 24 jailed terrorists in return for the kidnaped West German Ambassador, Karl von Spreti, the F.A.R. proved itself ready to kill again...
...extraordinary young man, of great expectations" (here Truffaut smiles slightly, perhaps at his literary joke, perhaps from the knowledge that the actual boy, contrary to the ending's implication, progressed no further in his learning). "Tomorrow we will begin our lessons again." The doctor's housekeeper, reacting to this brutal act of incomprehension on the doctor's part, leads the boy upstairs; and Truffaut irises in on the boy's face, leaving him, after the first great social injustice, precisely at the beginning of The Four Hundred Blows...
Nixon, speaking Saturday in Baltimore, "categorically" rejected the Commission's findings as being "morally bankrupt." He said that the "warped brutal portrayal of sex in books, plays, magazines, and movies, if not halted and reversed, could poison the well-springs of American and Western culture and civilization...