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Intended for the American backed Anti-Sandinista rebels in Nicauragua, this nifty manual contains all the techniques a tyroterrorist could ever want to know, from choosing your next assassination to blackmailing people into turning stoolie. The guiding theme is that a policy of infiltration and "implied terror" can force the populace to switch its allegiance from the ruling government to the rebels...
What are the contras supposed to do with their American supplied weapons except blow up things and kill people? What else does CIA training entail? This manual simply spells out the common sense measures that groups from the Boers to the Rhmer Rouge have taken to mount effective insurrections. But aided by a lack of press coverage of that region Reagan has been able to play down the real consequences of his policies, making the contras sound like cartoon GI Joes fighting for truth and justice with guns that only kill Commies. The matter-of-fact Macchiavellianism...
...group of Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venzuela. Rather than budge the Nicaraguan junta, Reagan's policies have succeeded only in winning sympathy for the Sandinistas, no easy trick given the regime's lengthening track-record of repression and economic failure. The current furor over the publication of a CIA manual for political terrorism, assassination, and psychological terror only underscores the moral turpitude of the Reagan Administration, and takes the pressure of the Sandanistas to behave...
...NIMH interviewers questioned nearly 10,000 people living in and around Baltimore, St. Louis and New Haven. The responses were fed into computers and checked against criteria for 13 or more mental disorders listed in the American Psychiatric Association's latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Other sections of the survey, covering 2,500 institutionalized patients and some 6,000 people in Los Angeles and Durham, N.C., are expected to be released next year...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III noted in his 1972 study of the arts at Harvard, the notion of a "university" is based on ancient Greek ideals, "in which reason and verbal discourse were far more important than manual skills and creative imagination...