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McGill said, "The real evil that the CIA has let loose on us is that by engaging in these sort of activities without formal guidelines, they have raised a level of paranoid suspicion in all the universities...
...hours in a blurry continuum of beer, pot, sex and leftist war cries. But the frenetic "mobilizing" and hedonism was itself a clue to Marshall's own eventual disillusionment with radicalism. He had broken with S.D.S. in 1969 when it was taken over by the hate-filled and paranoid Weatherman. He says now, "The cultural thing really freaked me: destroy the family, destroy monogamy. They wanted to destroy the specialness of all personal relationships. I knew Mark [Rudd] and Bernardine [Dohrn]. I saw them go over the edge...
Kabul is waiting for something to happen-riots, guerrilla action, a tightening of curfew, the replacement of Moscow's puppet party boss Babrak Karmal, army or police mutiny, perhaps an even more overt Soviet takeover. However ill founded, however paranoid, the constant rumors have a reality of their own in shaping the war psychosis of the occupied city. The men seen in the streets with guns, the façade of power, are Afghans. The real occupiers, the Soviets, are invisible, except for their helicopters, the jet contrails, the daily barrage of Pravda-phrased media propaganda, the Cyrillic script...
Instead of dismissing Solzhenitsyn again as a paranoid alarmist, we Americans must open our eyes, harden our bodies and brace ourselves for confrontation...
...politics," Judy Blumberg's brother told me, and at first I thought he had to be paranoid...