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...first conceived of a career in the KGB. Tamara Stelmakova, now 70, still teaches at School 281, the secondary school specializing in chemistry that Volodya attended at 14. She remembers an ordinary boy who stood out mainly for his "beautiful" reports on "political information" in the mandatory Marxist ideology class. Volodya, she recalls, was "always speaking as if he knew what he was talking about," mesmerizing his audience with his smooth delivery. She recalls him as a well-mannered student with poor grades in chemistry, good grades in history and German, and "always an A in discipline...
...term "narcoterrorist" may be somewhat misleading in a country where leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, the armed forces and the government have all been linked at various points with drug barons. Today, to be sure, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia may have become the richest Marxist guerrilla faction in history by extracting some $100 million a year in "taxes" from drug producers and traffickers operating in the southern half of Colombia, which they control. (That must be a relief for Colombia's peasantry, of course, since it was the impoverished campesinos themselves who, along with assorted kidnap victims...
...Harvard students could not have been an attempt to divert attention from Buchanan's conservative message because his address was devoid of conservative issues. Whatever its merits, campaign finance reform, with adherents and detractors amongst both left and right, is not a conservative cause. Buchanan's new alliance with Marxist and extremist of the left, Lenora Fullani, who accompanied him to the ARCO Forum, is not a sign of moderation but rather of the completion of his metamorphism into prejudice-preaching populist. The only thing missing was his usual demagogic attachment of Jewish-sounding names to the Washington and Wall...
...trouble understanding their sentiments--his own life's question then, he says, was, "'How can I be a Marxist and still own a Jacuzzi...
JOEL KOVEL Marxist-studies professor PRIORITIES Ending global warming through industrial reform; universal health care LATEST BOOK Red Hunting in the Promised Land...