Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctors who spoke did not witness the scene of greatest human rights violations--the battle zone. Here the human rights rectification by the U.S. becomes particularly farcical. Government troops are pursuing a "Scorched Earth" policy, destroying all life--animal, plant and human--in a region suspected to be supporting rebel fighters. This horrible tactic was introduced to El Salvador by American advisors and first implemented in January 1982, a month after the U.S. undersecretary of defense signed the new U.S. military stategy for El Salvador...
...have been unthinkable. Now, without any great public outcry, it has become a reality. Reagan recently stated that in no sense was the government "speaking of participation in combat by American forces." But Silva confirms that in February an American advisor, Sgt. Jay T. Stanley, was wounded during a rebel offensive in the Usulutan region. This incident of an American combat casualty was reported, but later omitted by both Time and Newsweek in recent features on El Salvador. Congress has complained not about the unethically of starting another Vietnam, but about the high cost and "lack of tangible effects." With...
...military brass has taken to Spinney's findings like ducks to buckshot. "He is a lousy systems analyst," says Under Secretary of Defense Richard DeLauer, who oversees the purchase and development of weapons. "His work is purely historical," Weinberger told Congress last month. Neither man has met the rebel. In fact, a week after dismissing Spinney's latest study, Weinberger turned to DeLauer at a staff meeting and asked, "Spinney's work is historical...
Spinney's boss was the now legendary Colonel John Boyd, a rebel so fierce in his beliefs that he was sometimes called "the mad colonel." Boyd organized the so-called Fighter Mafia, a group of officers who insisted that the service ought to develop a lightweight, fairly simple, relatively inexpensive combat plane. Boyd taught Spinney that the cost and complexity of weapons are no accurate guide to their performance in combat. But clear thinking like Boyd's was rare in the Air Force bureaucracy. Tired of running into intellectual brick walls-and afraid that some of his superiors...
...that there are no exciting scenes at all. Picrre (Sandor Soth), a sort of Jimmy Dean rebel, seizes the microphone during a Party leader's speech at the school and shouts "Long live the idiots!" Later, Pierre leads a race through the halls, ripping down photographs from the walls, "Jailhouse Rock" playing in the background. Just before running into the totalitarian Vice Headmaster, he throws himself through a closed window...