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...Poland are both examples of movements that include the vast majority of the people, that are the result of institutionalized opression, and that have faced bloody suppression. Both attempt to move their nations towards the same goal-an economy and a political democracy controlled by the people. Both must contend not only with repressive domestic regimes, but with big brother governments willing to support the repression for their own ends. If the parallels between foreign policies of the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. are recognized, it could erode some of the consensus for our actions abroad...
American aid to the country continues; American officers--50 of them, about ten per cent of all officers in the Salvadoran military--continue to train troops, and many sources continue to contend that American Green Berets and special forces troops really run the show. Certainly, the counter-insurgency techniques resemble those used in Vietnam. The latest U.S. policy statements, in late summer, indicated support for Duarte's 1982 election plan, and opposition to negotiations with the rebels, the course so many European nations have advised. How valid elections can be held when public opponents of exploitation are routinely murdered...
Students of history find themselves confronting a rift among modern historians. Many, following the school of the great English historian Arnold Toynbee, attempt to systematize history, fitting it into a series of patterns and cycles with scientific elegance. Others, like Sir Charles Oman, contend that the human record is illogical, that history is a series of happenings with no inevitability about it. As Leon Trotsky once observed, cause in history "refracts itself through a natural selection of accidents...
WORCESTER--After her team's 81-57 lambasting at the hands of the Holy Cross Crusaders last night, Harvard's women's basketball coach Carole Kleinfelder realizes what must be stressed if the Crimson hopes to contend for the Ivy League title: fundamentals...
...Middies should throw a 2-3 set offense at the Crimson defense, and will defend against the Harvard attack with a 1-2-2 zone that may extend into a modified full court zone press. That D will have to contend with an offense that has found a dangerous new weapon in the scoring power of Calvin Dixon, junior point guard extraordinaire...