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...riot. "Professional criminals will be hired to carry out specific selective jobs" like provoking a shooting that will "cause the death of one or more people who would become martyrs for the cause." A guerrilla commander stationed in a tower or tree should give the signal to begin the mayhem, the manual instructs. "Shock troops" armed with "knives, razors, chains, clubs and bludgeons" will "march slightly behind the innocent and gullible participants...
...knees and crossing himself at the moment of victory. "I've been given a lot of chances in my life, and I wasn't going to go without thanking somebody for it." Gorski left the silver medal to Nelson Vails, 24, who learned to ride delivering messages in the mayhem of Manhattan traffic. "If I had to lose, I'm glad it was to somebody like Gorski," he said generously...
Well, sort of. Actually, the multiple calamities-340 in all-were fictional, dreamed up for Torchlight III, the third in a series of dry runs of the Olympic-security coordinating system. But for the law-enforcement authorities who went through the exercise last month, the hypothetical mayhem was serious business. Its aim: to give security agencies, ranging from the FBI to the Fullerton, Calif., police department, practice in operating as a unit before the July 28 opening of the 23rd Olympic Games...
Though Ivan IV liked to deliver his mayhem personally, much of it was meted out by the oprichniki, his 6,000-member guard of thugs who terrorized the country for seven years until the Tsar abolished the group. In a fit of contrition late in his life, Ivan made a list of more than 3,000 opponents he had executed. He sent the names, along with generous sums, to monasteries for memorial prayers to be recited...
Sendero's biggest opportunity for mayhem and disruption will come when Belaúnde's successor is selected in a two-stage election next spring. The continuing violence, combined with the economic crisis, threaten to weaken further Belaúnde's center-right Popular Action Party, which was badly defeated by leftists in last November's municipal elections. Yet even with the economy collapsing around him and bombs going off regularly, Belaúnde's remains ever optimistic. "I have great faith in the future of Peru," he says. Still, for the architect of Peruvian...