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...vanguard of this new attack is a national coalition of 60 lawyers and 700 scientists called the Environmental Defense Fund. Financed mainly by $10-a-year dues from 25,000 supporters, E.D.F. operates out of East Setauket, N.Y., and has branches in Washington, D.C., and Berkeley, Calif. Its philosophy is summarized by William Butler, a lawyer in the Washington office: "Environmentalists have cried wolf too often. We don't make a legal move unless scientists are sure of their ground...
WONDERLAND by Joyce Carol Oates. 512 pages. Vanguard...
Often during a revolution, the vanguard do not possess a homogeneous ideology--there are too many tendencies which result in purges later on. Furthermore, this leads the leadership to improvise their economic and political programs from year to year. The people's organizations are often not large enough to assure a true independence. While at the same time they demand the confidence of the people, they do not provide them with the essential means by which they can control the decisions affecting their own lives. This process inevitably leads to a bureaucracy of technocrats in whom are vested the expertise...
Forsyth may be in the vanguard of a rather queasy-making literary trend. Readers do, inevitably, identify with the assassin, and what he has, briefly, in his telescopic sights is a heroic and honored chief of state. General de Gaulle is dead, of course. Earlier this year, though, Harper & Row issued Who Killed Enoch Powell?, a thriller-mystery predicated on the murder of a British Member of Parliament, notoriously disliked as a racist, but very much alive. What titles will come next? Ho, Sweet Homicide? Tell Them Willy Brandt Was Here? Sunset on the Pedernales...
...time is used as a way of exerting diplomatic leverage. As such, its rationale can be precarious. Two recent examples: > After the assassination last month of a Chilean opposition leader, former Vice President Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, the killers were identified as members of the extreme leftist Organized Vanguard of the People. But Communist and Socialist politicians, as well as several pro-government newspapers, accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of being behind the murder. Defense Minister Alejandro Rios Valdivia did not specifically blame the CIA, but he told the Chilean Senate that "hidden interests far beyond our borders...