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...What a vicious circle he is in. A white god sends him out to kill guerrillas fighting for his people, some of them are his people, and when he feels there is something wrong, he has only to go to that same god again. I wonder how many of them feel the contradiction this strongly. The army has been the source of the best leadership (both Turicos and Yon Sosa were U. S,-trained), but most are not close to such a flip-flop. For most young Indian men, the Army offers the only opportunity for dignity and a relatively...
Wars of the frogs are not uncommon in Malaysia, and zoologists theorize that they are battles for mating grounds. To superstitious Malaysians, however, they are portents of national disaster. Soon after a particularly vicious frog war in the early 1940s, the Japanese invaded and occupied Malaya. The country's twelve-year struggle against Communist terrorists began after frogs warred in Kedah in 1948. Two weeks before violent race riots erupted in Kuala Lumpur in early 1969, there had been a huge frog battle near Penang. Thus when the latest frog fight broke out at Sungei Siput in November, local...
...daring act was the work of Uruguay's Tupamaros, the most vicious and successful of Latin America's urban terrorists. They take their name from an Inca chieftain who was executed in Peru 200 years ago for leading a revolt against the Spaniards. For more than five months, the Tupamaros have been holding two other diplomatic hostages: U.S. Agronomist Claude Fly and Brazilian Consul Aloysio Mares Dias Gomide. Last year they murdered Daniel Mitrione, a U.S. AID official, after Uruguayan President Jorge Pacheco Areco refused to ransom him for 160 prisoners, including many Tupamaros...
...them built before 1900. Now stripped of most rights, he often arrives in chains and becomes a number. His head sheared, he is led to a bare cage dominated by a toilet. In many states his cellmate may represent any kind of human misbehavior?a docile forger, a vicious killer, an aggressive homosexual...
...particularly vicious assassination, presumably perpetrated by Naxalites, occurred last week. Dr. Gopal Sen, 58-year-old vice chancellor of Calcutta's Jadavpur University, a center of Naxalite unrest, was pounced upon by a group of young men as he took his evening walk, bludgeoned with steel bars and stabbed four times. He was scheduled to have retired from his university post the following...