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...DEMOCRACY BE BORN WHILE BULLETS ARE flying? Cambodia may find out May 23-25, the date set for U.N.-sponsored elections for a national assembly. The Vietnam-installed government and three guerrilla groups, including the Khmer Rouge, agreed to the timetable, but there was no guarantee that the warring factions would put aside their ethnic hatred long enough to vote. Both the government and the Khmer Rouge have been accused of killing off enemies in a series of massacres. According to U.N. peacekeepers, a Khmer Rouge soldier confessed that he and other guerrillas slaughtered a group of 15 Vietnamese living...
Stern and his groupies keep popping up, guerrilla-like, across the media landscape. Appearing with Jay Leno on the Tonight show during Leno's flap with < Arsenio Hall, Stern threw fuel on the flames by trashing Hall (a "moron") as well as former Johnny Carson cronies Doc Severinsen and Ed McMahon ("two of the biggest loads on two feet"). At her press conference last spring, Bill Clinton's alleged ex-girlfriend Gennifer Flowers was taken aback when a Stern reporter asked whether Clinton used a condom. When Today's Katie Couric opened the phone lines during a June appearance...
...lost because, in sending troops 8,000 miles from home, its government committed three errors: it exaggerated the threat posed by a monolithic, expansionist Red Menace; it overestimated the popular support and staying power of its corrupt ally in Saigon; and it underestimated the inherent advantage a guerrilla force has in fighting on and for its own territory. In short, America was thinking globally and acting locally, but getting it wrong both ways...
...believe in our capacity to organize, not in the government's goodwill," says Valerio Grefa, leader of the Indians of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Similar sentiments have stirred tribes from Mexico to Chile and have even inspired some armed guerrilla movements that make the struggle for Indian rights part of their ideology. After initial anger and confusion, governments have begun to respond. In Peru, Amazonian Indians have reclaimed 5 million acres of traditional lands, using $1.3 million in assistance from Denmark. Colombia's 60 Indian tribes have won title to more than 2.5 million acres...
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND THEIR U.S. PATRONS repeatedly denied it. But when a team of forensic anthropologists excavated nearly 60 of several hundred battered skeletons from around a demolished church in what was once an F.M.L.N. guerrilla stronghold, they found convincing evidence of what some journalists and human-rights activists have said for years: as many as 800 civilians, most of them women and children, were mutilated, burned and < murdered in and around the remote northeastern town of El Mozote in 1981, by soldiers from the Salvadoran army's U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion...