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Chayes describes the assassination as "a demonstration of the absurdist view of life." The sudden killing of a President graced with youth, education, and charm meant "nothing in the world can be stable," he comments...
Ironically, many of the new security measures were about to be put into effect anyway. The clampdown was prompted by an incident in October 1982, when an overwrought Israeli youth was seized in the crowded House of Representatives gallery while attempting to detonate a homemade bomb concealed under his shirt...
Nicaragua's youth has become the focus of an increasingly tense struggle between zealots in the ruling Sandinista movement and those less eager to support the Marxist-led revolution. The trouble has been building since the government announced that all men between the ages of 17 and 22 would be required to register for armed service. Those who refused ran the risk of being imprisoned for up to two years, while anyone who employed an unregistered man was liable to heavy fines. Nonetheless, only 100,000 people, half of those eligible, signed...
...large part, it thus fell to the 25,000-strong "Sandinista Youth" to improve the statistics. Searching restaurants, pouncing on moviegoers and stopping public buses, they assaulted recalcitrant males, verbally and sometimes physically, to boost registration. Meanwhile, pro-Sandinista professors threatened unregistered students with expulsion from school. Said a nervous student: "If I disagreed with them [the Sandinista Youth], I would be lynched. If not lynched, I would be denounced as a counterrevolutionary...
...John Reeds (Class of '10) who fight imperialist war by fighting the capitalist system that breeds war. John us in the fight for a socialist future--now--before the Harvard-trained war criminals in power engulf all of our futures in a nuclear holocaust. Tom Crean '86 Spartacus Youth League...