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After excursions into fiction (Made in America) and exotic subculture (King of the Gypsies), Author Peter Maas has returned to his most substantial theme: intractable loner vs. corrupt organization. In Serpico (1973), a singleminded narcotics agent challenged the authorities and won. The heroine of Maas' new nonfiction drama triumphs over a stained bureaucracy, headed by the Tennessee Governor's office, that sells pardons to murderers and rapists...
...remark echoed the confusion of many Guatemalans. Since he took over-at God's direction, as he put it-Ríos Montt has made far-reaching changes in the brutal and corrupt government that he inherited from his predecessor, General Fernando Romeo Lucas García. The country is now flooded with blue-and-white posters bearing a favorite Ríos Montt slogan, I DO NOT ROB, I DO NOT LIE, I DO NOT ABUSE. Under the President's moralizing eye, corruption has all but dried up. Government-sanctioned death squads that used to roam...
...that is merely preliminary, however, to the real battle between the Rebel Alliance and the corrupt Empire, and to the contest of wills between Luke, the last of the Jedis, and the black-caped, black-masked Darth Vader. Yoda, the 900-year-old Jedi master from The Empire Strikes Back, reappears to confirm what Luke feared most: Darth Vader is indeed his father, a former Jedi knight who was seduced by the evil Emperor and turned to the "dark" side of the Force, to hate rather than to love. Luke will never be a real Jedi, Yoda says, until...
...Protocols of the Elders of Zion made chilling reading, a description of a conspiracy at the highest levels of Judaism to dominate the world by stealth. Where and when they met is not made clear. But according to the document, the elders carefully laid out a perverse plan: "Corrupt the young generation by subversive education, dominate people through their vices, destroy family life, undermine respect for religion, encourage luxury, amuse people to prevent them from thinking. Poison the spirit by destructive theories, weaken human bodies by inoculation with microbes, foment international hatreds and prepare for universal bankruptcy and concentration...
...language and ideas in the Protocols, however, were taken directly from a French satire published in 1864, Dialogue aux enfers entre Montesquieu et Machiavel (Dialogue in Hell Between Montesquieu and Machiavelli). The conversation reveals Machiavelli (a thinly disguised stand-in for Napoleon III) as a cynical mastermind of corrupt power and how to attain it. The Russian forgers simply adapted his sentiments to fit the imaginary elders...