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...comparatively small size of the Los Angeles police force made matters worse. "Let's forget Chief Gates. You should talk about the number of < police," argues Rex Applegate, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and a leading riot-control specialist. "L.A. has about 8,000. New York City can field 30,000 officers and can flood a riot with blue uniforms." This manpower shortage was compounded when police commanders failed to declare a tactical alert soon enough, which would have deployed additional officers to the initial trouble spots...
Recently, however, there have been stirrings of counterrevolution. Again the early warning signs are in Latin America. In February an obscure Venezuelan army officer, Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias, came within a hairbreadth of toppling President Carlos Andres Perez. Three weeks ago, President Alberto Fujimori of Peru pulled off an auto-golpe, or self-coup, and in effect imposed martial...
...against that backdrop that so many Venezuelans, otherwise a sophisticated people, could hail as a hero a banana-republic primitive like Colonel Chavez...
Formally known as Victim Souls of the Unborn Christ-Child, the Lambs were founded in 1988 by the Rev. Norman Weslin, a Roman Catholic priest who retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel. His guiding principle ^ is the "mystical theology of the victim soul," meaning that Christ has often acted through seemingly insignificant persons or groups, like the Lambs. The Lambs' membership, mostly Roman Catholic, is divided into three groups: about 30 full-time activists, who travel around the country from clinic to clinic and jail to jail; 250 part-timers, who go on active duty...
...Kassar has many passports and identities. Most important, he was part of the covert network run by U.S. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. During the Iran- contra hearings, it was revealed that al-Kassar was given $1.5 million to purchase weapons. Questioned about al-Kassar, former U.S. National Security Adviser John Poindexter said, "When you're buying arms, you often have to deal with people you might not want to go to dinner with...