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...example, there were the Ramona Para brigades. Ramona Para was a Chilean worker killed during an earlier period of social unrest, and the brigades were groups of Communists, mostly workers, who went around painting murals in the cheapest paint they could buy because that way it cost them less and because they didn't care if the murals faded; the next day the murals would already be a day old and new ones could always be painted anyway. The five other parties in Allende's Popular Unity coalition had brigades of their own to paint murals, but the Communists...
Confronted with student unrest and the threat of martial law, they came home three weeks early, noticeably skinnier, newly bearded and disappointed that they had not been allowed to finish their work...
Despite the recent wave of popular unrest, Indonesia is far better off than it was under dictatorial President Sukarno, whose government was overthrown eight years ago. Sukarno drove the country to the brink of bankruptcy; today it has a foreign exchange surplus of $500 million, an 8% growth rate and a 25% inflation rate (v. a crushing 635% in 1966). Jakarta's main thoroughfare, the Jalan M.H. Thamrin, is lined with modern hotels and high-rise office blocks...
...American named Miles Copeland, who says that he advises overseas U.S. firms on security problems. Copeland told the Times that there was "no doubt at all" that CIA agents were operating inside Britain's trade unions. CIA officials, he explained, believe that Britain's current labor unrest is motivated by a more sinister objective than better pay. The implication was that some known Marxist sympathizers within the more militant unions were out to topple the government...
...activism worries some of his supporters. One high Western diplomat, for example, fears that Bhumibol might tarnish his image as an individual above politics, and thus deprive the Thais of "the one thing they have going for them: the stability that the King provides." In that case, unrest and turmoil could mount and lead to a return of military rule. As one member of the constitutional-drafting committee puts it: "The military has the guns and planes. All we have to stop them is the constitution and our idealism." For the moment, at least, idealism in Thailand is ascending...