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LAST BOOKS READ: How to Get a Teenage Boy and What to Do With Him When You Get Him, and A Handbook of Day Care for Infants under...
Patria y Libertad has joined the right-wing National Party in something called Proteco (community protection). Their handbook reads like a guide, if not an outright incitement, to civil war. It provides for block chiefs, first aid and surgical facilities, alarm systems and arms caches. "Neither waste nor unduly save your ammunition," the handbook advises. "Concentrate your fire on whoever seems in command or carries the most dangerous weapons. Try to surround your enemies, firing without pity...
...book deals with such contemporary problems as air and water pollution, rising taxes and the modern pressures that pull families apart. There is also a healthy effort to confront a certain moral complexity. "A Scout is true to his family, Scout leaders, friends, school and nation," states the Handbook. "But what if some friends take your sister's bike? They strip it and sell the parts. Where does your loyalty lie?" In the age of rip-off and radical capitalism, such a dilemma is not uncommon. In reply, the Handbook, unfortunately, takes the tone of Pollyanna rather than...
...plans to de-emphasize the military aspects of Scouting, uniformed Scouts now have the option of wearing a beret, which gives them a dashing Special Forces look, or a billed forage cap for that nostalgic Afrika Korps touch. There is as yet no official Boy Scout headband, although the Handbook has nothing against "the cut of your hair," as long as it is clean...
...other areas, the older Handbook provided more specific and useful information than the new edition. Many of the camping, woodcraft, water and first-aid skills have been dropped or oversimplified. Instead, the accent is on generalizations about leadership training, participatory democracy, and something called "personal communications skills." Fortunately, all the old down-to-earth lore can still be found in the Merit Badge pamphlets and, for $1.95, in the Boy scout Fieldbook. It is "the best value around," says none other than The Whole Earth Catalogue. ∎R.Z. Sheppard