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...Officials at three Western embassies in Caracas say Interior Minister Pedro Carreno has not signed a single transfer document for their nationals since President Hugo Chavez appointed him in January - and they're getting antsy. They said that at a recent meeting with ministry officials, representatives from every major embassy grumbled that they were in the same predicament The ministry did not respond to requests for comment...
...novel begins with what might have been a simple puzzle: three men have recently disappeared from the remote Andean village of Naccos, and Corporal Lituma and his adjutant, Tomas Carreno, want to find out what happened to them. The two protagonists are members of the Peruvian Civil Guard assigned to this village, where work is inching ahead on construction of a government-financed highway. Although the guardsmen are supposedly there as keepers of the peace, they know the mountain people regard them at best with mistrust. "To tell the truth, you have to be pretty dumb to join the Civil...
...hours later, Jerome Bohm reported excitedly: "Entirely unheralded, the finest woman pianist since Teresa Carreno* made her North American debut. ... It would scarcely be possible to imagine a more searching, tonally ravishing interpretation...
...Teresa Carreno, a Venezuelan, was the foremost woman pianist of the early igoos. *For Carnegie Hall, $565; manager's fee, $150; advertising, mailing and printing, $540; tax on 250 free tickets, $110; piano moving and tuning...
...Puerto Carreno, Colombia, the chief of a hostile Indian tribe sent his braves prowling under the fuselage of a giant trimotored Ford transport plane to steal the "big bird's eggs," so that the chief could hatch planes of his own to fight the white...