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Notes Classics in Politics: Turning the Tide Noam Chomsky 398 student. 19. NYT, Nov. 23, 1984; worse still, Calero added that “we are not killing civilians. We are fighting armed people and returning fire when fire is directed against us” from cooperatives—which, most surprisingly, have armed guards, justifying the massacre of civilians who are not civilians when contra soldiers, walking by to enjoy the scenery, are inexplicably fired upon by these terrorists. See the full-page ad supporting aid to the “democratic resistance” led by Calero in the NYT, June 2, 1985, signed by Martin Peretz and Leon Wieseltier of the New Republic, along with such regular apologists for US atrocities as Sidney Hook and John Silber and numerous other luminaries: Morris Abram, Hyman Bookbinder, Penn Kemble, Samuel Huntington, Seymour Martin Lipset, Michael Novak, Albert Shanker, Allen Weinstein, Ben Wattenberg, etc. 20. Boston Globe, Sept. 18, 1985. The Globe devoted 100 words to the priest’s report; the Times, none. 21. NYT, Sept. 15, 1985, datelined Honduras; Shirley Christian, “Anti- Sandinistas vow to cut abuses,” NYT, Washington, Aug. 24, 1985. Cruz cites scarcity of medical facilities and transportation as reasons for the “delicate thing.” 22. Jonathan Steele and Tony Jenkins, Manchester Guardian Weekly, Nov. 25, 1984. 23. Marian Wilkinson, National Times (Australia), Nov. 30, 1984; Gavin Macfadyen and Joanna Rollo, New Statesman (London), Aug. 31, 1984. 24. Orville Schell and Robert Bernstein, Wall St. Journal, April 23, 1985. 25. Editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 16, 1985; the editors are noted for the high moral sentiments eloquently proclaimed on suitable occasions. 26. Bill Keller, NYT, June 4, 1985. 27. Karl Marx, The Civil War in France (1871; International Publishers, 1941). 28. NYT, Nov. 23, 1984; Pamela Constable, Boston Globe, April 24, 1985; Cruz, Foreign Affairs, Summer, 1983; Cruz, op-ed, NYT, Dec. 6, 1984; Edgar Chamorro, In These Times, Sept. 4, 1985; Dennis Volman, CSM,
Notes Classics in Politics: Turning the Tide Noam Chomsky 399 Oct. 15, 1985. We return to the contra programs, as the functioning leadership sees them. 29. In These Times, Sept. 4, 1985; NYT, July 18, 1985; editorial, BG, Sept. 14, 1985; Latinamerica Press, Oct. 3, 1985, a Church-based publication in Peru. 30. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Dept. of State, Feb. 2, 1981, 427. 31. El Salvador: One Year of Repression, Legal Aid Service of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, World Council of Churches, 1981. 32. Country Reports, 1981, 427-8. 33. Alan Riding, NYT, Sept. 27, 1981. 34. Editorial, “Reform in El Salvador,” WP-MG Weekly, Feb. 22, 1981; NYT, Dec. 7, 1980. On the media suppression, see TNCW, 37, 389, 392, 429-30. For extensive documentation of the pervasive double standard, which is extraordinary in scale, see the references of note 2 in the Introduction, and Herman, Real Terror Network. 35. Reuters, NYT, Aug. 22, 1985. 36. “Recent Political Violence in El Salvador,” Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Oct. 5, 1984; Álvaro Magaña, March 1982. Cited by Central America Crisis Monitoring Team, In Contempt of Congress (Institute for Policy Studies, 1985). 37. Aryeh Neier, “Exporting Persecution,” Nation, Sept. 7, 1985. 38. McClintock, American Connection, II, 280, citing a Reuters report. See PEHR, I; TNCW, introduction. 39. Stephen Kinzer, NYT, June 30, 1985; Economist, July 27, 1985. 40. Barbara Crossette, NYT, July 8, 1985; as for the coup, the official claim of Communist Party involvement is dubious at best, a matter discussed in important forthcoming work by Peter Dale Scott. 41. Philip Windsor, The Listener (BBC, London), July 11, 1985. See Michael Vickery, Cambodia (South End, 1983), the major scholarly study of the period, widely and favorably reviewed in England, Australia and elsewhere but totally ignored in the press here because the conclusions—that the total population decline through 1978 (when the
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