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...latest incidents came shortly before last week's election, when guerrillas kidnaped Government Information Chief Baltasar Morales and Supreme Court President Romeo de León, killing Morales' son and his chauffeur in a blaze of pistol fire. Contacting the Guatemalan Red Cross, the guerrillas said that the pair would be released after Peralta gave an accounting of the fate of 28 leftists arrested two months ago. None has been heard from, and there is a strong suspicion that some or all of the 28 were executed without a trial...
...studious sister. She pals around with Roberto and his friends, hitching rides on the bumpers of trolleys, playing in the streets. But at about 14 she runs off and marries a rat, who alternately leaves her and comes back, finally leaving her with four children. Then she meets Baltasar, whom she does not love, but who accepts temporary responsibility for the children. At the time of the interviews, she too is miserable, and with her whole family, living on the generosity of Jesus...
...BALTASAR A. CRUZ-VIDAL...
...order to keep his creative faculties unsullied by routine, Weaver leaves management of his cluttered office to two young assistants-La Verne N. Laseau and A. Marsden Thompson. Rather a diligent extrovert in his writings, he assumes such pen-names as Fargan Hathway, makes a point of quoting Baltasar y Morales Gracián, a 17th Century Spanish Jesuit. Buck Weaver's screwiest activities are occasional booklets he prints at his own expense. He justifies them as outlets for his inhibitions, as surface rashes on his emotional ego. Sample paragraph based on Olive Schreiner story of the "Hunter...
...Aguilar knew. He had once made a study of the lute and its literature. He was further aware that Johann Sebastian Bach had written for it, that Georg Friedrich Handel as late as 1720 had made a part for it in his Esther. He remembered, too, that a Granadan. Baltasar Ramirez, had been the greatest lute virtuoso in 16th Century Europe; that the art of lute playing had supposedly died in 1790 with the German Christian Gottlieb Scheidler. Hence he listened with a peculiar appreciation to the music of the blind man. He went home, spoke enthusiastically of its sweetness...