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...guerrilla groups hope to disrupt the balloting, with the aim of making the election meaningless. Spray-paint signs in the guerrilla colors of black and red warn Salvadorans that "whoever votes will be killed." Last week José Rodriguez Ruiz, a leader of one of the five major Salvadoran rebel groups, spelled out the guerrillas' broad strategy: "We are going to attack the cities better each time, especially San Salvador...
...cruel. And it was necessary. For Nixon's own appointees to turn on him was not the best way to end a presidency. Yet he had left them no other choice. Nobody is less likely to rebel than a President's Cabinet. At meetings with Presidents, the normal tendency of senior Cabinet officers is deference, occasionally bordering on obsequiousness. If Nixon's Cabinet officers felt impelled to say what they did, they must have felt that they had been deceived on Watergate; if they felt free to say it, their judgment must have been that Nixon...
...Dostoyevsky of the silver screen, and will go to any convoluted lengths to get a strained or totally phony argument going. In this case, the great mogul (played with a flashy show of menacing teeth by Klaus Kinski) wishes to bump off the revolutionary (Armand Assante) and hires the rebel leader's old Harvard roommate to do the job. This character (Ray Sharkey) pretends to go along with the scheme because he is a victim both of existential ennui and of a sudden obsessional letch for the financier's wife. Much show-biz Big Think ensues...
...Angolans have good reason for wanting to rid themselves of the Cubans. The impoverished Luanda government must pay the troops in precious hard currency. Moreover, the Cubans have not succeeded in stamping out the resistance of Jonas Savimbi, a South African-backed rebel whose forces roam free in much of southern Angola. Dos Santos evidently believes a Cuban withdrawal will bring in significant Western economic aid to exploit Angola's vast mineral resources. But any withdrawal of the Cubans would leave open to question the fate of Savimbi and his antigovernment forces. Says one U.S. analyst: "There are many...
...lands. If not preoccupied with some trangression of life or liberty, they catalogue the struggle of popular liberation movements against repression, violence, poverty and hunger. Unusual was an account several weeks ago of Soviet politician Mikhail Suslov's funeral in Moscow. Not quite the enlivening task of trailing rebel guerillas through the hills of EI Salvador or Afghanistan, reporting the ceremony required little more than a simple, off-hand description of the event and a brief account of the man's history...