An intelligence source says the plan, during the 15 days that the Peruvian police have to interrogate the leader of Shining Path, Abimael Guzman, is to present an increasingly humiliated figure (he has already been shown flabbily buttoning up his trousers, without his shirt) every few days to the public in an attempt to break the myth of the unbeatable leader. The Economist September 19, 1992 Let Them Eat Cake! "Brazil has 140 million inhabitants," First Lady Rosane Collor told the newspaper Folha de SIo Paulo as her husband teetered on the verge of being impeached. "How many were in the streets? 500,000 people? And the rest? It was the simple, humble people who voted for the President. They weren't in the streets. The political parties, the elite, those with culture, with a certain intelligence, with a certain vision-they were in the streets." The New York Times Magazine November 8, 1992 Those Crazed Indians "In ancient Mayan civilization, basketball was a game played to the death by crazed, savage warriors who grabbed and scratched and kicked and clawed each other to the delight of thousands of delirious, bloodthirsty spectators. Although the game hasn't changed, the shoes have." Ad for Nike sneakers Sports Illustrated April 6, 1992 Down with the Goalie! Four sports journalists denounced death threats they had received by phone for publishing articles which criticized the athletes chosen to play for the Gua-temalan soccer team. The journalists said they would not let these threats prevent them from "continuing to denounce everything which menaces the suffering people of Guate-mala, especially soccer fans." La Tribuna (Tegucigalpa) August 3, 1992 Out of the Loop The Bush Administration is planning to expand anti-smuggling operations in several countries, officials said yesterday. An Administration official said half a dozen members of Congress were briefed on the plan late last week. "Unfortunately," the official said, "we haven't talked to the countries yet, and it's a bit awkward having it in the newspapers first." The New York Times June 2, 1992 File the Leaker! President Bush said today that he would like to dismiss the official who made public a confidential memo from William K. Reilly, the EPA administrator, suggesting revisions that might reverse the American position on an international treaty being considered at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. He added: "I'd like to find the leaker, and I'd like-to see the leaker filed-fired. Filed would be all right. No, but the reason is, it's very difficult to conduct government if somebody, in his or her infinite wisdom, can shape the wisdom by leaking documents." The New York Times June 7, 1992 Asking for Trouble Guatemalan government and military officials argued that counter-insurgency troops only responded energetically to the provocation of campesinos. The chief of the National Police said that it wasn't the police who attacked the campesinos, but rather it was the campesinos who gave their heads to be hit by the batons of the National Police. Inforpress Centroamericana July 30, 1992
