Word: manual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reads like a cross between a driver's manual and a guide for revolutionary Boy Scouts. Among other things, it contains admonitions to drive carefully, be courteous to neighbors and, of 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...
Written in a businesslike style, free of the usual Marxist rhetoric, the manual contains instructions grouped under seven headings: renting or 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...
...manual specifies, for example, that an apartment or house to be rented or bought must be "'modest, clean, neat and completely furnished. It must appear from the outside as a decent house−curtains, an entrance light, a doormat and a nameplate." It should be situated on a street where it is "easy for a militant to keep watch over and to observe any police surveillance: that is, if possible, it should not be near bars, public buildings, shops, institutes, warehouses, etc." Purchases of food and other necessities should be made far away from the neighborhood of the hideout...
...smallest details." If, for example, a Brigatisto pretends to be an artisan, he "must leave home every day before 8 in the morning and not return before 12:30 in the afternoon, leave again at 2 p.m. and return home at 7 p.m. or later." As the manual puts it: "The role assumed must be carefully studied, so that any irregularities in one's behavior can be explained." Militants should never write down phone numbers, even in code. But do, says the handbook, "always carry your side...
...compiling a 600-page instructor's manual, running teaching seminars, and taping the performance of every new section leader, Moore has tried to maintain teaching quality in the course...