Arms and the Citizens

As the Reagan administration busies itself with supplying military hardware to assorted repressive right-wing regimes in Latin America (Guatemala, Argentina, the lot of them), the publication of Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, by Jacobo Timerman (Knopf) could not be more timely. Not that it is likely to influence Administration policy but it will be widely read and, if we are dealing with people who have a smidgeon of conscience, it might abort some military ...