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AUGUST 1968: U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein was gunned to death in Guatemala City when he tried to escape capture by guerrillas...
...branched-off source: our Grand-dad chimpanzee, our gorilla grandma, and the orang-patriarch. O.K. and granted. But sans sense, primates, and progeny of puny primates! Why bite one another now, though your ancestors might have? Répondez s'il vous plait! man hunting man! Ach, mein Gott! are human beings fools or what? In the interim . . . while I wait, and you tell, mach's nach, aber mach's besser, viz., carry on, boys, and continue like hell...
...period of his rapid rise he told a friend of mine in Appleton that he had first glimpsed the secret of political success by reading Mein Kampf. Hitler's technique, he said, rested on the skillful use of the big lie. Tell a whopper and keep on repeating it. In time people will come to believe it. Joseph McCarthy's big whopper was that the communists had taken over the State Department. Hitler's big lie had been that the Jews had almost destroyed Germany...
...discussed Mein Kamf, in which Adolph Hitler explained his use of "the big lie" as the secret of political success. He said SDS had begun propagating their "big lie" during this senior class's freshman year...
...beginning of 1970, eight such kidnapings or attempts have occurred in Latin America. All the victims but Von Spreti were freed, most after as many as 20 political prisoners had been released. But nobody is likely to forget Von Spreti's fate-or how U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein was gunned down on a Guatemala City street nearly two years ago as he tried to escape an ambush. Indeed, even as Guatemalans were searching for Von Spreti, U.S. Consul Curtis C. Cutter barely escaped from a similar bushwhacking in Porto Alegre, Brazil. When four masked men blocked his station...