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...nonviolence, a policy that Carpio increasingly opposed. In 1970 he finally broke with the party over the issue of armed action, and began creating the F.P.L. Among the guerrilla commanders, Carpio is now considered to be the principal exponent of "prolonged popular warfare," the Latin American version of Maoist guerrilla strategy that calls for a sustained period of rural guerrilla warfare as the best road to revolutionary victory...
Bradford C. Mank '83, president of SASC, described the rebels as "pro-Maoist" and "hard-liners," saying they are not members of the major Salvadoran opposition group...
Nations have in this century attempted to foster a "national character." Nazi Germany and Maoist China are two examples. But the price people have paid for such "public spiritedness" has always been authoritarianism. Will acknowledged that danger but argued that just because some countries had taken the route of authoritarianism, it did not mean all regimes necessarily would. But Will's objection notwithstanding, the fact remains that no democratic, capitalist system has ever been founded on the principles he espouses...
Most important, Bangkok was helped by a falling-out in 1979 between Viet Nam and the Maoist Thai Communist Party. Hanoi expelled Thai guerrillas from their sanctuaries in Cambodia and Laos and confiscated their weapons and ammunition. The Thai Communists lost a second ally soon after when China sought support for Cambodia's Pol Pot regime from the five members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to which Thailand belongs. ASEAN in turn demanded that Peking minimize its relations with Southeast Asian Communist parties. As a result, it has sharply reduced its support of Thai insurgents...
Last December the Chinese leadership finally decided to break with the Maoist principle of national self-reliance and quietly appealed for help to the United Nations Disaster Relief Office (UNDRO). A team of UNDRO inspectors toured the affected areas in January. They were impressed with China's own emergency efforts; only 5,000 people have died so far. But they estimated that China would need 1.5 million tons of rice, wheat and other grains, along with medicine, clothing, blankets, seed, milk powder and additional necessities...