Abimael Guzman, a professor at a provincial uni- versity in Ayacucho, high in the Andes, the Shining Path took up arms in 1980. Its leaders scorn both the Soviet Union and China, and receive no aid from either. The group is responsible for some 2,500 terrorist at- tacks nationwide-on factories, power plants, embassies-and 615 deaths. It enjoys growing popularity in the mountains around Ayacu- cho; the number of active terrorists has jumped from just two or three hundred in 1980 to perhaps 3,000...
The Philippines's David A. Rosenberg, in Problems of corn- munism (Sept.-Oct. 1984), Superinten- New Communists dent of Documents, U.S. Government
Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.
In 1981, President Ferdinand Marcos ended 10 years of martial law in the Philippines. During that decade, argues Rosenberg, a Middlebury College political scientist, Marcos managed through incompetence and bad judgment to rub old scars raw.
Marcos's iron-handed rule (he retains extraordinary powers) has str...
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