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Emily Rose, a women's clothing store that served Central Square for 58 years, is gone. Holmes says it will preserve its sign. Surinam's Clothing, serving Central Square for the last 80 years, has been told to clear out by the end of the month. Anthony's Greek Market--another survivor of ethnic communities the "developers" are determined to bury in rubble--will be leveled. And our own Lucy Parsons Center, an independent radical bookstore and community center which has been at various locations in Central Square for most of our 25 years, faces eviction on April...
...began a series of amateurexplorations of the South American Surinam rainforest to do cultural studies among isolatedtribes of African back-ground...
...article told of a group of men charged with attempting a coup against a left-wing "strongman's" government in the small South American country of Surinam--a nation most people don't know exists. The article stated that "All 13 were charged with violations of the Neutrality Act, which bars Americans from involvement in attempts to overthrow other governments...
...ought to prosecute people whose motives for invading other nations are selfish or paranoid in the extreme--like the Surinam invasion party, which hoped to abscond with the contents of the national bank, or the neurotic commander in Doctor Strangelove who is convinced he is surrounded by Communist plots...
Furthermore, American "security interests" become dangerously elastic when Cold War dominoes are involved. The U.S. plotted to overthrow the Cuban dictatorship to keep Cuba from becoming a Soviet foothold; the CIA's Surinam caper, in turn, was intended to guard against the projected dangers of a Soviet or Cuban base in that country. The next logical step must be an overthrow on the basis of suspect pro-Surinam sympathies. And when it happens, it probably won't even make the papers...