Word: alfredo
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...clear case of like-mindedness. Against a backdrop of growing concern in Congress over the Administration's Central American policy, El Salvador's provisional President, Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, on his first official trip to Washington, and President Reagan emerged from two hours of White House meetings last week to issue none-too-subtle pitches aimed straight at Capitol Hill. Both Presidents stressed support for Salvadoran democracy, land reform and human rights-prime congressional priorities...
...sign of its commitment to those goals, the Administration last week sent off Special Envoy Richard Stone on a twelve-day, ten-nation "listening" tour of Central America. On his first stop, in El Salvador, Stone met with Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, Defense Minister Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, and the country's archbishop, Arturo Rivera y Damas. Stone will also visit Nicaragua; it will be the first high-level U.S. visit to the revolutionary Sandinista government since Enders met with Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra there in 1981. Among other things, the Stone visit is intended...
...Salvadoran government could engage in talks but still fend off the guerrillas' previously stated demands to reorganize the government to include them, in effect canceling the results of last year's elections, in which they had refused to participate. The Administration has backed the government of Alvaro Alfredo Magafta Borja in its resistance to such "power sharing," and has suggested limiting any dialogue to a discussion of the ground rules under which both sides could participate in elections...
...screen lies in respecting the musical source but exploit ing the film medium's restless, inquiring mobility. As both a film maker (Romeo and Juliet, The Champ, Endless Love and an experienced opera director, Zeffirelli understands both genres. In Soprano Teresa Stratas (Violetta) and Tenor Placido Domingo (Alfredo), he has chosen two exceptionally convincing singing actors. But film also demands motion, sweep and scope, so at intense moments the camera breaks free of its traditional front-row-center moorings and begins to roam. As counterpoint to Alfredo's second-act aria, in which he ardently-if prematurely-credits...
...Domingo in the first act, it is clear that he is the one who is really lost. Even with a full beard and tousled head of auburn hair. Domingo cannot disguise the fact that he is at least 15 years too old for the callow hero, but he makes Alfredo into an unusually impetuous, even violent personality. As Alfredo's father, veteran Baritone Cornell MacNeil is the picture of implacable bourgeois respectability...