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...national university was closed by the Salvadoran government in 1980 because of its support of the guerilla opponents of the Jose Napoleon Duarte government which still holds power. El Salvador's military destroyed buildings, burned libraries and sold the university's equipment before allowing it to reopen in 1984, said Calvin...
Allowing the establishment of final clubs was a move that any social psychologist would have applauded; historians also. In 1815, the exhausted leaders of Europe dispensed with a similar threat to their society by "enthroning" Napoleon on the small island of Elba, and allowing him to reign there...
Though the supply of Nicaraguan arms to the rebels in El Salvador has allegedly tapered off somewhat in the past four years, Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte insisted in an interview with TIME last week that the Sandinistas are still providing the rebels with support as well as sanctuary. Said he: "There is no doubt that there is a whole centralization of the guerrillas' efforts in Nicaragua." In Guatemala, the Sandinistas have helped leftist guerrillas make a modest comeback after their insurgency was nearly exterminated by a massive campaign launched by the Guatemalan military...
...Like Napoleon, some of the deposed might enjoy the "company of people of my own fortune." Instead of shuffling these men around uncomfortably, it may be time to consolidate the arrangements, to establish a home for them, a sort of Island of the Lost Big Boys, a Club Med for the undone...
...dayrooms of mental hospitals are famously filled with Napoleons. The Dry Tortugas might be the same sort of place. If, like Napoleon, the Big Boys consulted Paradise Lost, they would find there the words that Satan uttered: "Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell." Most dictators are not so self-aware...