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...seaside villa in Honolulu. Then, as is their custom, more than 1,000 members of the ragtag group drifted into the nearby Manila Hotel, the onetime playground of Imelda Marcos, for drinks. This time, however, they were joined by two truckloads of armed soldiers. The next thing they knew, Arturo Tolentino, Marcos' vice-presidential running mate in last February's elections, was reading out a letter from Marcos asking him to take over as the country's "Acting President," and was having himself sworn...
...centerpiece of the 1986 Biennale is called "Art and Alchemy." It was curated (if that is the word) by Arturo Schwarz, an Italian art dealer whose purplish prose has long been one of the hazards of Marcel Duchamp scholarship. Alchemy sought to change base metals into gold and silver. More broadly, it embraced astrology and occult religion, being founded on the picture of a fourelement universe (air, water, fire and earth) proposed by Empedocles in the 5th century B.C. There was an early link between alchemy, technology and art, since ancient glassblowers and metalworkers were always trying to make base...
News Desks: Suzanne Davis, Frances Fiorino, Tam Martinides Gray, Susan Lynd, David Richardson, Diana Tollerson, Jean R. White, Arturo Yaez, Jacalyn McConnell, Pamela H. Thompson, Ann Drury Wellford Administration: Emily Friedrich, Linda D. Vartoogian...
...loyal to Marcos who offered Filipinos from $5 to $10 to attend. The following day, 93 of the 177 elected members of the 200-seat National Assembly abolished by Aquino held a session in which they declared that they were reopening the defunct parliament. Marcos' vice- presidential running mate, Arturo Tolentino, had been proclaimed vice president during the Rizal Park rally and vowed to take his oath "within six months," thus becoming acting President in Marcos' absence. The accelerating agitation brought a warning from Enrile that Marcos loyalists and forces of the left were out to overthrow the Aquino government...
...contras to shed their "cia-imposed leadership." He says that it is resented by the combat troops, considered "hostile to democracy" and is damaging to the unity of the various contra factions. He believes that if the contras unite under a common political banner, with such respected democrats as Arturo Cruz and Alfonso Robelo at the top, Nicaraguans and Americans will support the rebels as a legitimate democratic resistance force...