Word: handbook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, be prepared. Entitled Security Rules and Work Methods, the loose-leaf document of 20 typewritten pages was among the most valuable finds uncovered late last month by police who raided a Red Brigades apartment hideout at Via Gradoli 96 in Rome (TIME, May 1). As a survival handbook for Italy's underground terrorists, the document provides a fascinating glimpse into how the Red Brigades seek to use respectability as a cover for their nihilistic actions...
...buying a "safe" house, use of automobiles, work methods, appointments, contact with relatives, personal care and what to do in case of arrest. Ringing a kind of middle-class change on Mao's dictum that guerrillas should mix with the people as fish swim in water, the handbook conveys a portrait of an organization that is both rigorously disciplined and shrewd...
...leader of the huge Communist-dominated C.G.T. (General Confederation of Labor), Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais, and Robert Fabre, head of the Left Radical Party that had been allied with the Socialists and Communists in the elections. Séguy's "demands" came straight out of the handbook of inflation: across-the-board salary increases, including a 37% hike in the minimum wage to $520 a month, and increases in pensions and other social benefits. Marchais spent an hour with Giscard, pleading, he said, on behalf of "millions of workers who have reached the limit of their endurance." Afterward...
This attitude didn't preclude sports as an activity for men. In a South House handbook, Grant Segal '76 praised the Quad as a ballfield, writing, "the House you've been told has no one but tea drinkers and folk dancers is the best House for sports. To a man whose masculinity depends on his jockdom, saying he is the star of a Radcliffe team won't solve his problem. (But then, nothing will. If, man or woman, you're with good sports and teammates, then South House is your place...
...HANDBOOK FOR SCHOLARS...