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...ANTONIO IN LOVE by Giuseppe Berto. 302 pages. Knopf...
...Antonio, a poor young man from a village near Venice, inherits a pittance and decides that it is time to fall in love. He picks Maria, a pretty, aloof-looking virgin. She turns out to be as eager to fall in love as he is, but she is far more direct and decisive. Antonio is troubled: How could the pure madonna of his fantasy tolerate his touching her? He is still trying to come to terms with this conundrum when Maria's rich parents callously separate the lovers. Antonio suffers extravagantly, even as he falls into the arms...
...Moscow's allied capitals followed dutifully. So similar was the pattern of visible and intelligence-monitored Soviet activity to what preceded the invasion of Czechoslovakia that an alarmed President Lyndon Johnson spoke out. Though he did not specifically cite Rumania in an otherwise routine speech before a San Antonio milk producers' convention, he made his meaning clear. "There are rumors," he said, "that this action [against Czechoslovakia] might be repeated elsewhere in the days ahead in Eastern Europe. We cannot and we must not return in the year 1968 to a world of unbridled aggression...
...money and better work conditions, staged a brief "ticket strike" last year, deliberately cut the number of summonses issued for minor traffic violations by 50%. Slowdowns also occur when workers phone in sick in large numbers, a ruse used over the past 18 months by Philadelphia street cleaners, San Antonio garbagemen and Des Moines firemen...
Barrientos' troubles began two weeks ago, when his Minister of Government, Antonio Arguedas, fled abruptly to Chile. There he admitted giving the diary to Castro so that Fidel could be the first to publish it. Describing himself as a "Marxist," Arguedas said he had airmailed the diary to a Castro mail drop in Paris to demonstrate "my position as a revolutionary and friend of the Cuban revolution...