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...Sandinistas, called on five friendly Latin American nations to mediate a ceasefire; the front itself refused to deal directly with Somoza and demanded that he and his family leave the country. It further proposed-when Somoza is gone-a provisional democratic junta and offered three possible "representatives": Industrialist Alfonso Robelo Callejas, 38, Lawyer-Writer Sergio Ramirez Mercado, 36, and Lawyer Rafael Córdova Rivas, 54, who had helped establish the foremost anti-Somoza political coalition, UDEL (Democratic Liberation Union...
...coup from either the left or the extreme right. Says Adolfo Calero, a prominent conservative politician: "The conservatives want it known that in Nicaragua there are democratic forces that represent the great majority of the people who have placed themselves in civil opposition to this government." Adds Alfonso Robelo Callejas, a wealthy industrialist: "We feel more than ever the urgency to get rid of Somoza and the government because his presence provokes such [terrorist] actions...
...that prepared the agenda for that 1968 conference was loaded with progressive and radical thinkers, among them a Peruvian priest, Gustavo Gutiérrez, who later wrote the influential A Theology of Liberation. But since 1972 the secretary-general of CELAM has been Bogotá's Auxiliary Bishop Alfonso López Trujillo, a staunch young conservative. With the Vatican's encouragement, López Trujillo cleaned out the secretariat, installing priests and laymen with considerably less enthusiasm for revolutionary political change...
...falls in love with a lady whom he has seen in church, and dashes out into the world, not even knowing her name. He eventually learns that she is Leonora (Shirley Verrett), but for an unforgivable amount of time it eludes him that she is the mistress of King Alfonso XI (Sherrill Milnes), even though a chap wearing a crown is always lurking about her or walking up and down the steps to a throne. There are also political complications in Leonora's life. Fernando is no match for all this. (Bad luck: he could have provided Lohengrin's Elsa...
...somnolence of Alfonso's court turned out to be hard on everyone. The orchestra, under Jesús López-Cobos, was at times embarrassingly inattentive. The Met's curtailed version of the court ballet was execrable, and Milnes, doubtless sick of climbing in and out of his throne, made the mistake of actually watching it instead of striking a rigid pose. One of the evening's genuinely endearing sights was his head turning with increasing confusion at botched patterns and fallen hats...