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Wilson was a forceful man of letters, not numbers. That may explain why the only Wilsons in David Burnham's blistering critique of the Internal Revenue Service are "James," a Supreme Court Justice who in 1794 rendered the decision that allowed President Washington to put down an armed tax revolt by Appalachian moonshiners; "Frank," an IRS investigator who helped nail Al Capone; and "Bob," a Republican Congressman tied to a tax ruling for ITT during the Nixon Administration. Nonetheless, Edmund remains half-right. Nightmares about the Soviets may have receded, but Americans have yet to lose their fear of filing...
...them into housing complexes. Delighted at Ceausescu's fall, the Hungarians still wonder if the new government will treat them fairly. Case in point: the handling of Laszlo Tokes, the dissident Hungarian clergyman in the town of Timisoara whose harassment by Ceausescu's forces in December helped spark the revolt that eventually toppled the regime. Although Tokes was later named to the ruling National Salvation Front, he is still being guarded by the army in a remote northern village. Ostensibly it is for his own safety, but Tokes's father claims that the real reason is to prevent him from...
...Garcia Marquez and Carlos Fuentes. "Most Latin songs are about the guy who betrayed his best friend, or the women who left him, or saying let's party," explains Blades, who opted instead to paint an expressionist canvas that included blessed sinners and murdered priests, the cry of political revolt and the stifled silence between lovers. In Ojos de Perro Azul (Eyes of a Blue Dog), from the album Agua de Luna (Moon Water), Blades drew inspiration for words and music from the stories of his friend Garcia Marquez...
...grasp the potency of the ethnic antagonisms in Azerbaijan became shockingly apparent as festering tensions between Armenians and Azerbaijanis erupted into the worst known outbreak of violence in the Soviet Union since World War II. But what began as an ethnic blood feud quickly turned into a popular revolt against Soviet rule...
...When the revolt erupted, many Securitate members slipped into an elaborate network of tunnels, whose existence was a well-guarded secret. The underground passageways link security headquarters, Communist Party headquarters, the presidential palace in central Bucharest and other key government buildings. The tunnels made it possible for Securitate members to escape the initial onslaught by soldiers and armed civilians and then regroup to attack the revolutionary forces. Securitate assaults in Bucharest and elsewhere in the country were carried out with arms and ammunition stored in caches secretly assembled outside the force's official camps...