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...same time, Dozier's abductors issued a ten-page communiqué that provided details of his interrogation by a "people's court." In the transcript, the presiding officer explains to Dozier why he was captured: "Your military career is the story of American aggression against the battle for liberation and revolution in Southeast Asia and against the proletariat struggle in Europe...
...about with sandbags, grenades and machine guns. The war cry would be perfect at a Cambridge tenants' union meeting, but would 150 teenagers take on an armored National Guard division over a real estate dispute? That is, after all, the kind of thing that can ruin a kid's transcript...
Perfect because the oppression in El Salvador is so obvious, the regime so gross and unsophisticated. Three U.S. Congressmen visited the country to see for themselves; their conversations with Salvadoran refugees were reported to the House in March of last year. One transcript read like this: "If people were caught in the village, they (the Salvadoran army) would kill them. Women and children alike. She said that with pregnant women they would cut open the stomachs and take the babies out...She said they would flee and they would give their children cold tortillas and a little bit of sugar...
...evidence against Tafoya included a transcript of a telephone conversation in which he asked a Wilson associate whether he knew of "anyone who should quit breathing-permanently." The prosecution contended that this was an offer by Tafoya to become a hired killer...
...remarks to a group of editors on the possibility of nuclear war had been taken out of context by those not present at the lunch, he seemed startled when Bill Plante of CBS suggested otherwise: "Mr. President, in your exchange with the editors-I happen to have the transcript-I'd like to read what you said." That was not Reagan's only uncomfortable moment. A press corps professionally conditioned never to clap or boo gave way to spontaneous laughter when Reagan asserted: "There is no animus, personal animus, and there is no bickering or backstabbing going...