Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noisiest, to be sure-in a rather fluid Puerto Rican terrorist community. Although its size is difficult even to guess at-estimates range between a few dozen members to hundreds-the community is said to be run by separate "central committees" in Puerto Rico and on the U.S. mainland. On the island, says José, terrorist cells tend to have half a dozen or more members. But for security reasons mainland cells are smaller. "The danger here is greater," José explains. "The police have good technology and budgets for informers. You have to work more secluded...
...contrasts with the mainland school are marked. At Southie High, the students are quick to report, athletic activity begins and ends with football. Yet out on Thomson's Island, every morning the group devotes an hour to "initiative games" that take place in the open air. These specially designed athletic activities--with names like "The Regain" and "The High Wire Tension Traverse"--are designed to help the group learn to solve problems together, to aid in building a cohesive sense of trust among the students...
...journals. The various historic sites on the island--first settled in 1627, the island served as a British encampment during the Revolutionary War--provide resources for social investigations. In homework assignments, Thomson staffers ask students to apply what they have learned on the island to investigations of their own mainland communities...
Wiseman reveals that the Zonians, for all their manic patriotic ardor, are a rootless and unhappy lot; their crime and child-abuse rates are well above the mainland rates. Canal Zone thus becomes a study in how Americanism when isolated and left to feed on itself can become a desperate form of mass escapism-and, as such, it is an ingenious cautionary tale. -Frank Rich
...China Tangle With conservatives leading the opposition to the Panama treaty as a "giveaway," the timing could not have been worse for discussion of another prickly issue: the U.S. defense treaty with Taiwan. Yet Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's visit to mainland China last week inevitably focused attention on Peking's insistence that the U.S. abrogate the treaty and thereby abandon another long-held position. To be sure, no one knew in May, when Vance's trip was scheduled, that it would coincide with the Panama debate; moreover, the Administration had been sharply criticized by Asian...