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Since the first communiqué, the A.A.A. has reportedly expanded its enemies' list to include a former Roman Catholic bishop, an army general, a union leader, several politicians, lawyers, entertainers, university professors and journalists. The threats have already caused a mini-diaspora. University Rectors Rodolfo Puiggrós and Raul Laguzzi have taken asylum in Mexico. Folk Singer Horacio Guarany fled to Venezuela last week. Actress Nacha Guevara left for Peru as did Comedian Norman Briski. Although it has not been directly linked to the A.A.A., the murder of General Prats has put Argentina's large community...
...illegal. Now they also have outlived their usefulness." Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union George Kennan disapproves of covert operations as "improper and undesirable." But he also disapproves for pragmatic reasons: "The fact that we can't keep them secret is reason enough to desist." U.C.L.A. Soviet Specialist Roman Kolkowicz argues: "The track record is deplorable. By and large, these operations have been a series of disasters." Adds Eugene Skolnikoff, director of M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies: "The resulting scandals provide grist for attacks on the U.S., retroactively validate charges?true or false?that the U.S. makes a habit...
...strategic gains. Moreover, public discontent with Thieu's tautly run regime has been fueled by inflation, which is currently running at a staggering 70% a year. As a result, Thieu, for the first time since the ceasefire, now faces a disparate but potentially volatile opposition from militant Roman Catholics and Buddhists, as well as from the normally docile Saigon press...
Land Deals. The opposition first surfaced a fortnight ago in the shattered former imperial capital of Hue, where 5,000 civilians gathered in front of the city's Roman Catholic cathedral to protest government corruption. The complaint was familiar enough, but the specifics were startlingly new. In a document that quickly circulated throughout the country, priests charged that Thieu had profited handsomely from housing and land deals, that his wife Nguyen Thi Mai had taken a rake-off from running a hospital that admits mostly well-to-do patients, and that his brother-in-law Nguyen Xuan Nguyen...
...young writer should be allowed a book like this one. Still it is a notable disappointment. Three years ago, McHale published two exhilarating novels in quick succession: Principato and Farragan's Retreat. In both he revealed wild comic gusto, a youthful, vengeful rage at certain vagaries of the Roman Catholic Church, and a visceral knowledge of middle-class Irish and Italians around Philadelphia and the Jersey shore. McHale was never a stylist; he made up in energy what he lacked in elegance...