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...film has the world littered with 256 "scanners," people who telepathically link with another person's nervous system. Darryl Revok (Lawrence Dane), a bad scanner, tries to form an underground league of scanners who will overthrow the U.S. government and establish "a civilization that will be the envy of the world." Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack), a good scanner, is abducted by Dr. Paul Ruth (Patrick McGoohan) so that he can be trained to search out and destroy Revok. Mutant takeover of the world is hardly an original idea, but the main plot pales when compared to the staggering number...
Written by Leverett House senior Bernadette Ward, the play is set in Nicaragua during 1979, when Sandinista rebels struggled to overthrow the dictatorial Somoza regime. Ward tries to dramatize the revolution's impact on a single village and its stock characters: the boyish revolutionaries, the Catholic priest, the young lovers, the disgruntled town elders. But the Guardia National remains off-stage; the abuses and injustice that spawned the revolution appear only as a background for the exploration of the tension between the revolutionaries and the traditions of the church and village...
Since their "final offensive" last January was blunted by the Salvadoran military and by lack of popular support, the guerrillas have made no headway in their struggle to overthrow the civilian-military junta that first took power in October 1979. Indeed, the guerrillas' attempts to wreck the nation's economy by cutting town water supplies and blowing up bridges have cost them the support of many people. The town of Usulutan (pop. 41,000) is without water, and San Miguel (pop. 113,000) has neither electricity nor water...
...Posted to Málaga, in southern Spain, he ordered his men to break up a government-authorized leftist demonstration on the ground that "no one is allowed to demonstrate here, because Spain is in mourning [over terrorism]." After his arrest in 1978 for participating in a plot to overthrow the government, he sent a revealing open letter to King Juan Carlos in which he urged: "What we need, Sir, is a good and agile antiterrorist law. We must silence those apologists for this bloody farce [terrorism], even if they are parliamentarians...
Benigno S. Aquino Jr., a Phillipine opposition leader who is currently a fellow at the Center for International Affairs, has been formally charged with conspiring with 86 other persons to overthrow the Phillipine government, Returns reported yesterday...