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...even as foreign as it used to be: though more than 25% of the legion are still German, an estimated 20% are French, while Italians, Spaniards, Yugoslavs and others form a polyglot minority. After nine long years of dull garrison duty in Corsica, New Caledonia and France, all that matters to the 1,000 legionnaires in Chad is that they are at war once again. TIME Correspondent James Wilde spent five days in the field with them. His report...
...colonies on Chad's border-Niger, the Central African Republic and Cameroun. Backed mainly by the Saras, who account for just 17% of the population, Tombalbaye's one-party dictatorship was near collapse when he asked for French troops under a defense pact with Paris. The French garrison at Fort-Lamy was increased to 2,000 infantry, marines and air force men, but the legionnaires have handled most of the fighting. Since April, they claim to have lost three men while slaying some 1,500 rebels...
...they tend to disregard history that does not serve their needs, they are antihistorical. Thus, when Staughton Lynd, in Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism, combs American history to establish a tradition of radicals who shared his vision of a noncapitalist, decentralized society, he plucks out Tom Paine, Lloyd Garrison and Henry David Thoreau as fellow ideologues. This is not history but polemics...
Even as the colonels reshuffled Torrijos' Cabinet, rival Guardia officers prepared to bring their chief back. Next day, word came from Mexico City: 'Torrijos is returning." On that signal, 14 truckloads of Guardsmen roared out of a garrison at outlying Tocumen Airport. Some fanned out over the country, others sped into Panama City and pulled up at the dingy, Victorian Guardia headquarters. After a bit of harmless shooting, Sanjur and Silvera were led off to jail...
...advocacy of the conspiracy theory of government, Z provides echo chambers of horror. The series of stop motion pictures of the Deputy's death revives involuntary memories of the Zapruder film. The coincidence of alleged complicities recalls the farther shores of Jim Garrison's New Orleans fantasies. But essentially Z is grinding its ax not for politicians but for politics. Tyranny is always better organized than freedom; beneath the idea of order-in Eastern Europe, says the film, as well as in Greece-truly anarchic forces are loosed upon the world. The Greek letter Z is a symbol...