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...while, Meinhof cranked out ideological justifications for the mayhem. For those with memories of the Third Reich, the incidents and propaganda had a chilling familiarity. Substantial segments of the European left began to praise the gang's actions as justified retaliations against the excesses of capitalism. The praise increased the gang's arrogance-and may have contributed to its fatal carelessness. Once the West German federal police set up special squads to cope with the terrorists. they found their quarries easy prey. In 1972 Baader blundered into police hands by racing up to a clandestine bomb factory...
Among the more practiced perpetrators of mayhem on the English language are members of the U.S. intelligence community. Already they have flattened the phrase communications intelligence (the fruits of electronic surveillance or code breaking) into "comint" and reshaped human intelligence (information from spies) into "humint...
What triggers this immunological mayhem remains one of medicine's major puzzles. Some doctors suspect that a tendency toward lupus may be inherited. At the University of California in San Francisco, researchers found that in mice, at least, lupus appeared to be aggravated by female hormones and controlled by male hormones. Other scientists think that the disease may be triggered by viruses. Possibly all these elements may be involved in lupus. Says N.Y.U.'s Dr. Gerald Weissmann: "If I knew what causes lupus, I'd be in Stockholm...
Frightening enough when they are alone or in pairs, youths in a gang are a formidable engine of mayhem. Today's urban gangs commit roughly 25% of the juvenile crime, and they are better organized than ever, more heavily armed and less queasy about the blood they spill...
WIZARDS, the new animated feature by Ralph Bakshi (Fritz, the Cat), falls between a visionary epic and the conventional mayhem of Saturday-morning TV. Neither a kiddie cartoon nor an adult entertainment, the film is a whats it. Set in A.D. 2,000,000, it projects a world left over from a nuclear holocaust...