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...Friendship University in Moscow. The time was October 1968. Upset by the bloody university riots in Mexico City that month, which claimed at least 34 lives, six Mexican students studying at Lumumba University on Soviet scholarships got together and decided to form a clandestine organization. They named it Movimiento de Acción Revolucionaria (MAR) and called the guerrilla unit the 2 de Octubre, the date of the massacre. Fabricio Gómez Souza, one of the students, made contact with the North Korean embassy in Moscow and arranged to visit Pyongyang. There he received the North Koreans' assurance...
...most troubled area is the province of Cautín, 400 miles south of Santiago in the heart of Chile's farming belt. Often at the instigation of the radical group M.I.R. (for Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionario), peasants have occupied at least 350 farms, some too small to be legally expropriated. Many of the raiders are impoverished Mapuche Indians who have lived in squalid villages since their tribe was conquered by the Chileans in 1881 and are all too eager to settle a score with the "huincas" (white men). Allende dispatched agriculture Minister Jacques Chonchol to the province...
Stoned to Death. The government's reticence in dealing with Toro's brazen band of revolutionaries may be related to the approach of national elections in September. Toro and his followers belong to the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionario, a radical organization that enjoys the support of no more than 3% of Chile's electorate. But the radicals are symptomatic of a mood of unease that could turn Chile into the hemisphere's first country with a freely elected Communist government...
Curious Islanders. It was a swinging caper. Led by Maria Cristina Verrier, 27, a ye-ye blonde playwright who is a kind of cross between the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and the Dodge Rebellion, 18 members of the Movimiento Nueva Argentina climbed aboard a night flight from Buenos Aires to Rio Gallegos in Argentina's far south. Shortly before the DC-4 was due to land, they pulled pistols and burp guns out of their suit cases, ordered the pilot to change course for Port Stanley, capital of the Falk land Islands. If all went according to plan, they figured...
...Solis Ruiz, 52, Minister of the Movimiento Nacional, Spain's bureaucracy-clogged official party, and boss of its labor syndicates. His jowls are heavy and blue, his head is bald, and his speech is thick with the accents of Andalusia, but Pepe Solis is probably the sharpest practicing politician in the land. The father...