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Later, the Drug Enforcement Administration people may be joined by U.S. military advisers. Under a plan promoted by William Bennett, director of national drug-control policy, the advisers are to train Peruvian soldiers in the art of "low-intensity" warfare against the Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas who control the Upper Huallaga. The insurgents finance their rebellion in part with fees from coca growers and refiners in the valley; U.S. intelligence reports say that lately they have directly gone into the coca-refining business...
...over that bloodbath led to the downfall of the infamous Gang of Four, headed by Mao's wife Jiang Qing, and the ascendance to power two years later of Deng. Unable to accept the new world crying out from the streets, Deng appears to have reverted to a hoary Maoist maxim: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." With devastating carnage, Deng proved he could unleash the firepower. But now that his regime is riding the military tiger, can it dismount without being torn to pieces...
...central Junin department. It was a thriving agricultural concern then, boasting up to 130,000 head of livestock, 800 workers who sold 10,000 liters of milk a day, and 170 administrative and technical advisers. A column of guerrillas armed with machine guns, members of the 5,000-strong Maoist revolutionary group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), marched in to destroy everything and starve anyone who did not cooperate with them. The rebels killed or took most of the animals, executed one director and three administrators of the co-op, and destroyed tractors, before disappearing into the countryside. Today the cooperative...
...consequences of U.S. intervention in Kampuchea have made a mockery of American intentions before, and they could do so again. The emergence of Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge was partly a result of misguided American policy 20 years ago. Richard Nixon's secret bombing of Kampuchea in 1969 and the CIA's support for a coup by a feckless military junta the following spring contributed to the chaos in which the Khmer Rouge thrived. In 1975 Pol Pot seized power and unleashed a holocaust...
Newspaper newsrooms are often unhappy places, but few are regularly likened to Stalinist Russia or Maoist China. Such were the favored metaphors among staffers of the New York Times under the iron grip of the paper's former executive editor A.M. Rosenthal. With a hair-trigger temper and skin as thin as a sheet of newsprint, Rosenthal was known to be convivial one moment, then, at the slightest miscue, fly into a rage. Those who unquestioningly did his bidding thrived; many of those who crossed him made their careers outside the hallowed offices at Times Square...