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Bouterse had stumbled into power in 1980. As a physical-education instructor fighting for the military's right to form a union, he managed almost inadvertently to overthrow the democratically elected, but divisive, government of Henk Arron. At first, the new regime was so diffident that it hung up a suggestion box soliciting advice on how to run the country, and Bouterse, its popular and athletic leader, even resolved to complete his high school education. Only much later was it discovered that one of his tutors had become his mistress and was schooling him in the writings of Lenin...
...worst outbreak of violence Chile had seen since the brutal overthrow of Marxist President Salvador Allende by the military regime of Augusto Pinochet 9½ years ago. It began last Wednesday as a peaceful Day of Protest over the country's desperate economic straits and quickly flared into widespread rioting. Three hundred police and militia fought about 1,500 protesters for control of downtown Santiago. By Thursday authorities had finally restored order, but at a tragic price: two civilians had been killed, 150 protesters were injured and 600 arrested...
...tone in which Democrats in Congress accuse Reagan of dishonesty in his Central America policies has lately been rising. The latest of accusations charges that he is violating the Boland Amendment, a law banning use of U.S. funds to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. "There are certainly a number of ways to interdict arms," dryly observed a House Intelligence Committee report last Friday, "but developing a sizable military force and deploying it in Nicaragua is one which strains credibility as an operation only to interdict arms...
...protest. The more radical--including the SDS and the man who ended Lowenstein's life with five bullets on March 14, 1980, Dennis Sweeney--denounced him as a reactionary trying to stem the leftward surges of the American student community. But Lowenstein could not support anyone who wanted to overthrow the established political system. Arthur Schlesinger '38 writes: He was sure that the energy released in the turbulence of the 1960s could be turned from destructive to constructive uses. A man of reason, he abhorred violence: a realist, he understood that violence sundered the bonds of humanity and defeated...
Moscow-Tehran relations have, in fact, long been characterized by mutual and mistrustful exploitation. The Soviets were far from enthusiastic in their support for Khomeini in the months just before his 1979 overthrow of the Shah. The reason, as a Tudeh member now in jail puts it, was that "Moscow perceived the clergy as incorrigible reactionaries." Those fears were well founded. Right-wing clergymen routinely reviled the Soviets as godless Communists, while Khomeini opposed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But Moscow wooed Tehran by offering assistance against the nettlesome Mujahedin guerrillas. In response, the mullahs invited KGB agents to Iran...