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...game, though. He hadn't shown up at midfield, as the contract had specified. He had gone directly to DKE for a rendezvous with a pockmarked, greased-up Danish count called The Bag. The Bag was still the best drinker at Yale, and Champagne wanted to sharpen his skills, mano a mano, for a few hours...
...Republicans do not want the President to campaign; the Democrats would like nothing better. But both parties can at least agree on one thing: Nixon is a poor campaigner whose defects may well become more apparent if he is tempted into the sort of mano a mano "crisis" crusading that he has always professed to be his style. Last week as George McGovern took a brief breather to rethink his campaign strategy and assess his finances, the President defied advice and came out politicking-but only part way. He confined his campaigning to carefully screened groups-ethnics and the Republican...
...junk fans, it's a mano a mano for novelists who are all thumbs. Two of the greatest schlockmeisters in the history of solid waste have just published novels about the auto industry. Arthur Hailey's Wheels appeared at the beginning of the fall season (TIME, Oct. 11). Now comes Harold Robbins to gun down Hailey with-The Carburetors! No, with The Betsy...
...MANO BLANCA (White) Hand) which he organized in 1966 is the most important of the death squads. It is staffed principally by Army and police personnel, and under the control of MLN (Movement for National Liberation-the party of Armas and Arana). It has effectively dealt with thousands of students, professors, reporters, workers, peasants, and even a few loyal opposition candidates, not to mention the guerrilla FAR (Rebel Armed Forces). (CRV, "The Violent . . .," by 3. See also Commission on Human Rights, "Violeincia en Guatemala...
What does the "left terror" consist of They have kidnapped rich business man, killed some MLN politicians associated with MANO, killed two ambassadors (one, the above-mentioned Mein), machine gunned the U.S. military team chief Col. Weber (right after MANO had killed Miss Guatemala because she was a guerrilla's girl friend), bombed jeeps, bombed some American restaurants like "The Hawaii" and "The American Donut Shop," bombed the newspaper Presna Libre (Free Press), bombed Castillo Armas' tomb and tear gassed the Peace Corps offices. Now, I will not argue that this is just a "tactical question." Violence which strikes innocents...