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There were more than enough rumors and full-blown theories last week to tantalize those who were curious about President Francois Mitterrand's motive in expelling Soviet officials from France. Perhaps the most intriguing hypothesis centered on the unsolved murder of a top French intelligence officer two months ago. One morning last...
Founded in the early 1970s, Sendero Luminoso claims as many as 1,000 members, most of them peasants and students from the mountains. Their eccentric ideology is mingled with a curious form of messianic tribalism. The Senderistas use Inca slingshots, for example, to fling dynamite sticks at targets. The guerrillas' atavistic tactics have evoked a similar response from the Andean villagers. When eight journalists were killed near Ayacucho in January, a government commission concluded that villagers had perpetrated the crime using Senderista methods. The bodies of the newsmen were carefully stripped, washed and turned face down, while their clothes...
...tadpoles in the swell of his celebrity. He, ah, played Stanford White in the movie Ragtime. He had something or other to do with Gary Gilmore. "I've read a lot about him, although I've never read his works," says Freshman Susan Bernfield. "I was curious...
...that we had enemies on campus, specifically a group called the EROTC (Enemies of ROTC), formed to "keep ROTC off campus." Having been repeatedly labeled "Khaki-clad killers" and compared to the likes of Charles Manson, we decided that we might listen to their justifications for such slanderous remarks. Curious as to why serving our country was such a terrible crime, we decided to attend their organizational meeting on April 7 in Emerson...
Cocaine is no longer just a curious upper-class kink. During the past two years or so, the number of Americans who have used the drug climbed from 15 million to 20 million and is rising still: every day some 5,000 neophytes sniff a line of coke for the first time. They cannot be written off as crazy kids: Government studies find that those in their late 20s and 30s constitute the fastest-growing proportion of users and, as of 1982, a majority of people who had tried cocaine were over 26. Nor does it seem that cocaine...