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Puzo works hard to make his story back-lot mythic. Spartacus led his slave army out of the Cammarata hills to fight the Romans. A skeleton dug out of the rocky soil is said to have belonged to one of Hannibal's elephants. The novel's hero, Turi Guiliano, is a Latin Robin Hood who can recite the Song of Roland and the basic guerrilla manual with matching ease. When he is not slipping into Montelepre for his mother's cooking and the attractions of a young widow, Turi muses under starry skies: "He no longer doubted...
...sparsely attended "emergency demonstration" yesterday, members of Spartacus Youth League (SYL) carried placards and made speeches denouncing United States foreign policy in Nicaragua...
...those who feels that the Communist Party should absolutely be banned in the United States. And when I see posters scattered around Cambridge, which indicate that Harvard halls are being used for meetings of the "Spartacus Youth League," I wonder who on earth can give permission for this kind of thing...
Just this week, a new socialist discussion group was born when D. Joseph Menn '87 received approval for a Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Forum Says Menn, "I think there is only one serious left voice on campus--the Spartacus Youth League. And so I wanted to bring more groups from the Left here, give people an opportunity to hear more views." Menn says he plans a first forum on "the Socialist Left and Democratic elections" for the weekend before the national election...
Says Thomas N. Crean '86 of the Spartacus Youth League, a Marxist revolutionary group: "We feel that there is no fundamental difference between the candidates. Both represent certain class interests--those of the capitalist class. The alternative is to build a workers party, because a bipartisan class struggle can only be defeated through class struggle. We're for a workers' party to build a workers' government...