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Most of those who disappeared, the desaparecidos, were abducted by plainclothesmen claiming to be members of the Argentine security forces. The evidence is overwhelming that many, if not most, of those seized were tortured, murdered, and their bodies dumped in secret graves. The ferocity of the antiterrorist campaign made Argentina...
For years, publishers and literary agents assumed that Americans were terminally exhausted on Viet Nam; books on the subject would not move. A buried ?and elitist?corollary of that theory held that since the nation's best and brightest sat out the war under the protection of draft exemptions...
Most of the 4,000 men and women from 23 countries boarding planes bound for Israel carried an oddly shaped parcel. As airport security guards soon discovered, the packages contained rocks, some as small as a fist, some the size of a tombstone, all inscribed with the names of victims...
Khomeini suggested that Banisadr could retain the presidency if he apologized for urging the Islamic country to "resist the dictatorship" of Islamic hardliners. "I am sorry that [he and his supporters] have dug their own graves," Khomeini told clergymen massed near his home in north Tehran. "I did not want...
Beneath the deft mimicry is the cultural critic's remove from his subject and his audience. This is not new. All humor is a detached analysis, an autopsy of the society's dreams and demons. As the sit-down iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche put it, "A joke is an...