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...material discovered in Senzani's apartment provided new insight into the fissures dividing the Brigades. Since the killing of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978, the group has split into two factions: the "militarists" who espouse the killing and kidnaping of all perceived enemies, and the "propagandists" who contend that terrorist tactics-including killing-must actually undermine state institutions. The dichotomy is believed to run through the five major Brigades columns, in Rome, Turin, Milan, Genoa and the Veneto area...
...government gained an insight into the scope and sophistication of the insurgency by staging a series of raids on about 30 clandestine guerrilla "safe" houses in and around Guatemala City, most operated by the country's second largest guerrilla organization, the Revolutionary Organization of the People in Arms (ORPA). In the houses, the military discovered everything from quantities of arms to bomb factories to enterprises devoted to turning out fake police and military uniforms and even fake license plates. At one location the army also found the body of U.S. Businessman Clifford Bevens, 56, who was kidnaped in December...
...created a new position in the Development Office and selected Thomas Stephenson, a top-ranking public relations executive, to fill the post. University officials hoped Stephenson, a 40-year employee of the DuPont Corporation and a veteran of many corporate gift-giving decisions, would be able to bring unique insight to his new coordinating task. As director of corporations, he was given responsibility for coordinating the Harvard Campaign's corporate solicitation strategy...
...character. As the three of them sit about Arthur's office, playing with "I think that you think so" lines, we are left to wonder whether Mamet wants to make us seriously believe that writers behave in this childishly parasitic way. On the other hand, perhaps this is an insight to the current pall over the entire profession, as best exemplified by the work itself...
...went the opposite route of most anthropologists," Moore said. "I didn't look for the simplest society." The Chagga are good subjects for research, she said, because in the early 1900s a missionary documented their early history, which provides an insight into the more recent changes in their culture...