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Unlike other Latin American terrorists, Uruguay's leftist guerrillas have cultivated a romantic image. Styling themselves the Tupamaros, after an 18th century Inca chief who led a revolt against Spain, they confined their activities mostly to robbing banks and tried to avoid bloodshed. That benign image was shattered earlier this month when they emulated the tactics of other Latin American insurrectionists by kidnaping three foreign officials. In return for the hostages' lives, the terrorists demanded the release...
...Peking as "the front paw of India's revolution," the Mao-quoting Naxalites pose a fifth-column threat in any new Sino-Indian conflict. They have already staked a violent claim to the allegiance of the docile peasants. In 1967 they masterminded a short-lived but bloody tribal revolt at the foot of the Himalayas near Nepal in the region of Naxalbari-from which the group takes its name. For six weeks bands of peasants armed with guns, spears and knives roamed the countryside, brutally killing "class enemies"-usually wealthy landlords and moneylenders...
Police suppressed the Naxalbari revolt, only to have the Naxalites start another uprising 400 miles away in the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh state. There, in 15 months of guerrilla warfare, 31 "class enemies" were cruelly executed. The Naxalites hung their victims' heads from poles, and used their blood to scrawl Maoist slogans. The uprising was finally brought under control by last spring, when 2,000 police were brought in and a land-reform and development program was started. Although the Srikakulam Naxalite leadership was wiped out-with 70 cadres killed-Naxalite groups had spread by then to eleven...
...battling "the whole of modern life"?what they regard as meaningless work, abuse of the environment, the dwindling opportunities for adolescent self-definition at a time when puberty arrives earlier than ever. In recent testimony before Congress, France's Journalist-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber argued that the revolt of the young is aimed at the "excesses of economic competition" and cannot be "eradicated by the elders in a fit of blind rage." Businessmen themselves, he said, "know the sincerity of their children's concern. They get it at the breakfast table...
Died. Louis E. Lomax, 47, black newsman (Chicago's American) and author (The Negro Revolt, When the Word Is Given) known for his evenhanded approach to race, who came down hard on black extremists and white segregationists; in an auto crash; near Santa Rosa...