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...father, Vicente, was one of the early underground organizers of an agrarian trade union called the Peasant Unity Committee. His 16-year-old son was seized by security troops, flayed and publicly burned. In January 1980, when Vicente and some of his comrades occupied the Spanish embassy in Guatemala City to call attention to their grievances, police stormed the building. The embassy caught fire, and the demonstrators burned to death...
...does hold that title, Robert Teeter, has also gone underground. Teeter won't appear on the talk shows, says an aide, because "he's afraid of getting pounded." Republican National Committee chairman Rich Bond, who seemed to be everywhere last summer peddling his line "Those other people are not America" to anyone who stuck a microphone in his face, is also missing in action. With disaster looming, Bond has become fair game: last week former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont broke with tradition and openly began to lobby...
Pichardo argues that if animal sacrifices are outlawed, a faith that only recently went public will be driven underground again and will become far less subject to regulation. He declares, "People will never stop practicing their religion." No matter what the Justices think of the way they go about...
GIANT SPACE STATIONS IN THE SKY, underground cities on the moon, galactic empires that have forgotten the earth, interstellar war with telepathic ants, voyages to go boldly where no man has gone before. Such were the predictions about the glories of the space age. No wonder the failure of events to live up to the predetermined history bequeathed by science fiction has disappointed the baby boomers...
Once the transportation is ready, Mars will be a popular destination. According to scenarios worked out by a group of scientists who call themselves the Mars Underground, the first voyagers would be preceded by ferries carrying equipment for setting up a permanent base. Early visitors would face a hostile environment: a thin atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide, temperatures that , fluctuate from -10 degrees F to -190 degrees F and hurricane winds. People would live chiefly underground, grow vegetables in greenhouses, wear space suits and explore the countryside in dirigibles...