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...Reds apparently assumed that President Raúl Leoni would respond mildly. After all, other recent terrorist incidents had led him to send out a few additional street patrols, and not much else. But this time, Leoni's army demanded action. Going on nationwide television, the President abruptly placed the country under a form of martial law, announced that he was putting the full force of the military into a war on subversion. Said he: "My government is determined to eliminate the treacherous conspiracy of those who are trying to carry out their adventurers' plans with Fidel Castro...
...ordered the army's elite anti-guerrilla units to sweep the countryside. At the town of San José de Guaribe, 90 miles southeast of Caracas, an army patrol flushed a FALN force and killed a rebel leader known as Comandante Behuma, who only recently has returned from terrorist training in Cuba...
...needn't have. The 1960 bestseller (The Centurions) by Jean Larteguy described with a certain politico-military sophistication how French colonels, beaten in Indo-China, applied terrorist tactics to the struggle for Algeria. From this epic theme, Director Mark Robson has derived one of those big bad action pictures in which the explosions look frighteningly real but unfortunately don't kill off the actors fast enough...
Kamensky's exposure and murder are engineered by Vassili Chubinov, himself a revolutionary and terrorist-and, to be sure, a traitor as well. Chubinov is surely the most appealing anarchist ever conceived. Even his ungainly figure is sketched with sympathy, down to his very overcoat, "hanging on the door in obvious deformity, so badly cut that it did not even fit the air." To him, conspiracy is "a game he happened to enjoy ... his kind...
Communist parties in the free world also bitterly denounced the events in Peking. The Japanese Reds, reportedly ordered by Mao himself to risk their cherished legality by initiating a campaign of terrorist attacks, responded by purging pro-Peking leaders and tearing down pictures of Mao. The French Communist newspaper l'Humanité said the new wave is "stirring disquiet and stupefaction in our ranks." Asked a Spanish Communist spokesman: "What winds of madness are these, sullying the authentic Chinese revolution...