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...Viva Zapata, Friday and Saturday, March...
...battle with Federates; in the Sierra Madre del Sur above Acapulco. In a seven-year campaign of bank robberies, kidnapings, and slayings, Cabañ⅞as, a Communist, won the sympathy of the dirt-poor marijuana growers of Guerrero state and acquired a mystique reminiscent of Emiliano Zapata...
...than detracts from their claim to respectability. Thus it is quite possible, if an independent Palestinian state is ever established, that statues of Arafat will some day be erected in the plazas of Nablus, like the plaques and statues of Eamon de Valéra in Ireland and Emiliano Zapata in Mexico. The fact that the leader of the P.L.O. appeared at the U.N. showed that it is already becoming respectable in the eyes of much of the world. "Respectability depends on whose side you're on," says Oxford Historian Alastair Buchan. "To the Turks, Lawrence of Arabia...
...overnight divide them up into the plots that decades earlier their parents and grandparents farmed. In Bolivia peasants farming in the countryside set up blockades in the nation's highways and throw stones at army troops in protest of arbitrary price rises instituted by the military government. Like Emiliano Zapata, who 60 years ago helped fuel the Mexican Revolution by fighting to recover land which for centuries had belonged to his village, the unintegrated masses remain a constant threat to the impersonal process of industrial growth...
Then there's the John-Stennis-Debating-The-Civil-Rights-Bill type of seminar, where each student seems intent on leading a filibuster. In one course I took in the Department of G******* a student seemed fixated on the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. Whether the day's discussion focused on the plight of agricultural laborers in Brazil, the trade union movement in Argentina, or the economic infrastructure of Venezuela, this loquacious student would ask how it compared with Zapata's noble effort in the Mexican mountains, and then proceed with an interminable, well-documented response. I took to letting...