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First among its attractions, The Abduction is by Mozart--and everybody likes Mozart. There are some fine arias in it, notably "Marten aller Arten" for the principal soprano Constanze, and an intricately melodic quartet in which the principal tenors question the fidelity of the women who have been held in captivity by amorous Turks...
...Figueroa decided that it was time to get rid of the meddlesome may or. When Salto walked into his city hall office at high noon one day three weeks ago, he was greeted by a delegation from Viedma: Figueroa's Un dersecretary of Government, Provincial Police Chief Antonio Aller and a no tary public who, Salto was told, had just been sworn in as the new mayor...
Within minutes 5,000 citizens were converging on city hall, wielding sticks, hoes and shovels. They burst into Sal-to's second-floor office and unceremoniously tossed the new "mayor," the Undersecretary and Top Cop Aller out of a window. Aller wound up in a flower bed. Figueroa's defenestrated deputies fled to a nearby police station and finally pledged that Salto would remain mayor after all. Half the city's people danced in the streets until 3 a.m., celebrating their victory...
...proved short-lived. When Cipolenos awoke after the weekend, they found city hall ringed by 200 heavily armed policemen who had been trucked in from other towns overnight by the enraged Chief Aller. Salto managed to escape, but Aller jailed his 19-year-old son and declared himself "interim mayor...
Carrero is a complicated man; he is not a liberal, but he has not opposed the liberalizing measures of recent years. Nonetheless, he agreed with Gonzalez-Aller that drastic measures had indeed become necessary...