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...father, Vicente, was one of the early underground organizers of an agrarian trade union called the Peasant Unity Committee. His 16-year-old son was seized by security troops, flayed and publicly burned. In January 1980, when Vicente and some of his comrades occupied the Spanish embassy in Guatemala City to call attention to their grievances, police stormed the building. The embassy caught fire, and the demonstrators burned to death...
...ideology as well as its centralized command, analysts expect his arrest to cause a severe setback that will put the force of 5,000 active militants on the defensive. But the guerrillas have vowed to pursue their bloody fight to destroy all of Peru's institutions and install a peasant-worker state. Last week they set off a bomb and killed a policeman to demonstrate their continued resolve. "Once a new central committee is formed," Guzman apparently told his captors, "the revolution will move ahead...
...compromise was a growing fear on both sides that continued bloodshed would severely damage the economy by frightening away tourists and foreign investors. It simply is not as easy for the military to maintain control of the affluent and educated Thailand of today as it was in the simpler peasant society that the nation was once, but will never be again...
Conference on Peasant Society and Culture in Eastern Europe--Through April 4. With 30 anthropology, ethnomuxicology, folklore and history scholars. Call the Ukranian Research Institute at 495-4053 for more information...
...authorization of $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels money to PBS and its member stations, was delayed early this month after conservative Senators railed against the alleged leftward tilt of the shows. Republican John McCain of Arizona blasted Maria's Story, the profile of a peasant woman who joined the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador, which aired last summer. Minority leader Robert Dole criticized PBS election commentators Bill Moyers and former Washington Post editor William Grieder -- "two excellent journalists who also / happen to be two excellent liberal Democrats...