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...skills on the battlefield have been overshadowed by the deterioration of El Salvador's army. Perpetually plagued by inept commanders and a "9t05" fighting mentality, the military improved over the summer but faltered once the rebel offensive began. The poor performance has prompted Defense Minister Carlos Eugenic Vides Casanova to shuffle his corps of colonels, but the troops suffer from battle fatigue as much as bad orders. Says a State Department analyst: "The army did not so much go back to their barracks as just run out of steam...
...this label that sticks to me," Marcello Mastroiami, 59, told a French newspaper unhappily. But it is hard to look so damnably dashing and avoid being considered a lady-killer. In truth, the Italian actor has lately been playing against type, most notably as an aged and mellowed Casanova in La Nuit de Varennes. And in The General of the Dead Army, a burlesque, Grand Guignol black comedy, which opened recently in Paris, Mastroianni plays the flamboyant General Ariosto, who does not so much get the woman as argue with her over possession of the remains of her late husband...
During his tour, Weinberger met with Salvadoran Defense Minister Carlos Eugenic Vides Casanova, whose U.S.-trained troops had not seen much fighting lately. They soon did. At roughly the same time as Weinberger's visit, a force of between 500 to 600 leftist insurgents suddenly ended a two-month lull in the country's civil war by attacking the center of San Miguel, El Salvador's third largest city. After killing at least 20 members of the local garrison and wounding more than 100 in a seven-hour siege, the rebels began to withdraw as dawn approached...
...commitment to those goals, the Administration last week sent off Special Envoy Richard Stone on a twelve-day, ten-nation "listening" tour of Central America. On his first stop, in El Salvador, Stone met with Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, Defense Minister Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, and the country's archbishop, Arturo Rivera y Damas. Stone will also visit Nicaragua; it will be the first high-level U.S. visit to the revolutionary Sandinista government since Enders met with Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra there in 1981. Among other things, the Stone visit is intended to emphasize...
Most of the film's talk and entertainment takes place in a carriage which plunges through the countryside on its escape from Paris, Filling this carriage are a scandalous/novelist/social historian/pornographer named Restif de la Bretonne (Jean-Louis Barrault); an aging but still engaging Casanova (Marcello Mastroianni); the dry English essayist Thomas Paine (Harvey Keitel); a sumptious Comtesse Sophie de la Borde, lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette (Hanna Schygulla); and various peripheral caricatures of the aristocracy. The wit, the life-blood of an era contained in one carriage, offer the potential for a rich entertainment, but the result...