Sep. 30. 1986: Mordechai Vanunu is kidnapped in Rome by Israeli secret police. Vanunu, who leaked details of Israel's illegal nuclear weapons program to the London Times, is convicted in a secret Israeli military court and has spent the last 11 years in solitary confinement. Your U.S. tax dollars at work. 1991: CIA-sponsored military coup in Haiti ends rule of elected Pres. Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Three years of state-sponsored murder, rape, and theft follow, before the U.S.-- confident that surviving Haitians got the message--restores a tamer, World-Bank approved version of democracy.

Oct. 1. 1946: Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal rejects defense of "following orders" for crimes against humanity. 1964: Univ. of Calif.- Berkeley police try to arrest a student passing out literature for the Congress Of Racial Equality, inadvertently starting the Free Speech Movement. 1965: An attempted court against Indonesian strongman Sukarno (still in power as a U.S. client) precipitates the state's systematic extermination of more than 400,000 suspected Communists and other leftists.

Oct. 2. 1869: Mohandas Gandhi born, India. 1990: 30 Native American protestors delay old growth tree cutting on sacred Mount Graham, Arizona; seven arrested.

Oct. 5. 1877: Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph, after months in which his starving band eluded federal troops, surrenders. At Eagle Creek in Bear Paw Mountains, Oregon. 1968: Seattle police kill Black Panther member Welton "Butch" Armstead during an arrest for suspicion of car theft. 1994: Italy becomes the 54th country to abolish the death penalty.

Oct. 6. 1845: First co-op store in U.S. opens in Boston, Mass. The idea of a member-owned, not-for-profit community mercantile bears no, repeat no resemblence to modern-day Group Health, REI, or PCC. 1966: California makes LSD possession a felony. 1970: About 200 bicyclists stage a "bike-in" in downtown Seattle to protest automobiles. 1979: Over 1,000 arrested at Seabrook, New Hamp., nuclear power plant construction site.