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...Waves' Alejo Mancisidore and Ashley Naumann clinched the victory at third doubles with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Zimmerman and John Tolmie...
...civil war of the early 1950's are written in a terse style, quite unlike the expensive prose of One Hundred Years of Solitude and other more recent works, Allende shows that writing about politics need not mean abandoning the enchanting style which has put such writers as Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, and Marie Vargas Llosa in a class of their...
...potential candidates so that somebody would run against him. Assemblyman Reuben Canoy told TIME that a supporter of Marcos' had offered the equivalent of $1.3 million to Canoy if he would challenge the President. Canoy turned the opportunity down. A longtime Marcos ally eventually surfaced as a candidate: Alejo Santos, 69, the fourth choice of the Nacionalista Party, which has generally supported the Marcos regime...
Feeling the lack of an autonomous American image, the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier has long looked for a way to rediscover the New World. Born in Cuba of French ancestry, and for years a political exile in Paris, he has always known how mistaken Europe and America were about each other. His unique perspective has influenced him, perhaps defensively, to explore in his writing the tensions between European assumptions and American reality...
...morning last week, in the little town of Sosúa (pop. 10,000) on the Dominican north coast. Dr. Alejo Martinez, 32, a physician, answered a knock on his door. Submachine guns chattered, and Martinez fell dead on the porch. About the same time, in downtown Sosúa, a telephone call sent an office clerk named Pedro Clisante, 28, put-putting away on his motorbike on an errand that would take him past a military post. As Clisante approached, a soldier blasted him off his bike. Two days earlier, near the provincial capital of Santiago, Epedio...