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...prisoners who claim they were taken to Colonia Dignidad to be tortured. During the next two days a group that included a Chilean judge, Amnesty Attorney Maximo Pacheco, colony lawyers and representatives of the West German government was allowed inside the colony. According to Pacheco, the group identified four underground rooms that matched descriptions by DINA torture victims. The visitors had less luck with their request to interview Jurgen Szurgelies, 24, who was returned to the colony by local authorities after escaping last month. The West German embassy ; in Santiago has initiated a case in a Chilean court...
...intifadeh has given birth to a diffuse and decentralized underground of local popular committees and anonymous coordinators that has survived both the murder of al-Wazir and the arrest of nearly 5,000 Palestinians since December. Many of the local leaders are adherents of one P.L.O. faction or another, but they evidently do not take orders from anyone outside the occupied territories. Rather, decisions made within the occupied territories appear to be approved and ratified by the Palestinian leadership in exile...
Leaflets were distributed at West Bank mosques calling for more protests today, which underground Palestine Liberation Organization leaders have designated a "Day of Rage" to mark a week since the assassination...
...tendency to merge radical thought with pragmatic tactics is the key to success for any movement today. Radical tactics such as those used by the violent Weather Underground in the late 1960s and early 1970s ignored the need for public support and ultimately led to defeat. The use of non-violence, on the other hand, by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led to a groundswell of mass support, and subsequent victories such as the Voting Rights...
...Princeton chapter, like Harvard's, is not affiliated with the university and has no meeting house or living space. Whitney S. Terrell, president of the Princeton Zeta Psi, says the chapter is one of five or six "underground" fraternities at the school. He says his fraternity was begun five years ago and has around 40 members...