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...QUESTIONS are exactly what Arbatov and and other high-ranking officials of the Soviet government must be forced to answer when they come to places like Harvard. The list of ongoing wrongs for which the Soviet regime must be held accountable goes on and on; Afghanistan's million-plus dead only top the list. And Arbatov was allowed to brush it all aside last week in the name of "relevance...
Indeed, only weeks after the first residents returned home in late January, the fragile peace was shattered. Army troops tangled with a guerrilla unit on the outskirts of town, leaving three rebels dead. The troops then advanced into Tenancingo firing M-16 rifles and grenade launchers. The soldiers searched homes, detained and interrogated inhabitants, and killed at least one unarmed civilian. A postmortem by directors of the Tenancingo project and human rights officials blamed both sides for the breakdown: the guerrillas for breaching the agreement by maintaining a near constant presence in the town, the army for treating the civilians...
...animal, even less part of a savage beast. It's green and rough, like the bark of a tree." Starving, Velasco manages to capture a small gull: "It's easy to say that after five days of hunger you can eat anything." He cannot stomach the sight of the dead, bleeding bird, torn apart by his own hands. He experiences alternating highs and lows, sometimes throbbing with the will to survive, then praying for an end to his punishment. His "days of solitude" convince him "that it would be harder for me to die than to go on living...
Then, having paid tribute to the dead, the politicians went into town to assert the continued resurrection of the opposition movement. As the leaders took the podium at the local Y.M.C.A., 3,000 supporters squeezed into the tiny gymnasium. Perhaps 50,000 others gathered outside in the streets. Some sat on curbsides, some mounted rooftops, some climbed onto telephone booths or trees to hear the call for nonviolent resistance. "Let them back us, imprison us or put us under house arrest," declared Kim Young Sam. "This is the way Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. won victory." Throughout the four...
...past has made an impression on Montgomery. The city's air reverberates with dead glories and brags, old rhetoric, old songs gusting out of the tribal ^ memory. The state capitol amounts to a sort of truculent shrine. A memorial to the Confederate dead stands on its grounds. "When this historic shaft shall crumbling lie," begins a grandiloquent inscription carved in the stone, "In ages hence, in woman's heart will be/ A folded flag, a thrilling page unrolled,/ A deathless song of southern chivalry...