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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Even by the peculiar standards of contemporary terrorism, M-19 stands out as a bizarre and incoherent group. It began in 1970 as a rightist movement supporting former Military Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, who ruled Colombia from 1953 to 1957. The strongly nationalist organization gradually incorporated leftists; its current ranks, according to a U.S. intelligence report, include Castroite, Guevarist, Maoist and Trotskyite revolutionaries...
...January 1979 by the superior firepower of invading Vietnamese armies. Since then, from camps in remote jungle areas, they have carried on a bitter struggle against their ancient ethnic enemies. Last week the Khmer Rouge-perhaps the world's most secretive and xenophobic Marxists -allowed a small group of Western journalists, including TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, to visit one of their bases inside Cambodia. Anxious to placate world opinion, which was appalled by reports that they had slaughtered millions of their own people, the Khmer Rouge produced their most articulate leader, President and Premier Khieu Samphan...
...member of Mensa, a group of 33,000 people who have IQ scores in the top 2%, Graham first revealed his project last summer in an interview published in the Mensa Bulletin. He was seeking to place his Nobel sperm with bright women who were healthy, under 35 and preferably married to a sterile man. Two dozen wom en applied, and those who were chosen received physical descriptions of the anonymous Nobel donors-plus Graham's own assessments. "A very famous scientist," he wrote on the description of one of the five available mail-order fathers (to whom...
...punish a politician "with publicity even if an indictment is not warranted." For the sake of a good story, the press sometimes commits its own honor to shielding questionable collaborators. At least, the press should do a better job of alerting readers to the advantage someone, or some group, gains by a particular leak. Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister of Britain, thinks journalists are too rigid about protecting a source: "They regard themselves as having the privilege of the Roman Catholic priest. I did point out to one of them once that a priest may have to keep...
...price controls. On Wall Street, respected Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn last week called for a yearlong wage and price freeze and other inflation-fighting measures to stop "a slide toward national bankruptcy." Even in normally free-spending Congress, cries went up to fight inflation by slashing budgets. A bipartisan group of 44 Senators signed a petition calling for $26 billion in spending cuts next year...