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...million voted by the House subcommittee last week will be used as partial payment for a U.S. Army plan to restructure the Salvadoran forces through training of crack infantry troops and aggressive junior officers. American advisers hope that the newly appointed Defense Minister, Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, will be better than his predecessor in adopting sophisticated tactics and strengthening morale...
Garcia was succeeded by Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, 44, formerly head of the 3,000-man Salvadoran National Guard, some of whose members are charged with murdering four U.S. churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980. The new Defense Minister is expected to turn control of the war effort over to qualified regional military commanders. Says a U.S. military official in San Salvador: "Vides Casanova understands that this war is being fought in the minds of the people and not over a particular piece of ground." A renewed Salvadoran government offensive against the guerrillas is expected within the next eight weeks...
...coach behind them, humanity rides (or anyway a curious cross section of it). The passengers include weary, white-clad Casanova (Marcello Mastroianni), who now spends his time fending off women rather than seducing them; Tom Paine (Harvey Keitel), pamphleteer of the American rebellion; and the journalist Restif de la Bretonne (Jean-Louis Barrault), to name just the historical personages aboard. Among the fictional creations are a lady-in-waiting to the Queen (Hanna Schygulla), Her Majesty's snippy homosexual hairdresser, a widow in need of consolation, a judge, an arms manufacturer and an aging opera singer heading...
Beefy, none too tall and often clad in blue jeans and tennis shoes, Flea Market Merchant Giovanni Vigliotto seemed an unlikely Casanova. Yet in a Phoenix courtroom, Vigliotto submitted a list of 105 women from 18 states and nine foreign countries he claims to have wooed and wed over the past 20 years, some of them more than once and all without benefit of intervening divorces. A jury of eight men and four women, impressed with his stamina but not his style, last week convicted Vigliotto on charges of bigamy and fraud in his marriage to Patricia Ann Gardiner...
...characters come onstage wearing labels but seldom baring lives. The personal relationships are uninvolving since they never seem more than cocktail-party deep, and Julia is a cotton-candy Casanova. Doleful of mien, downcast of eye, Guide's put-upon wife (Karen Akers) sits with cool rigidity on her cube for what seems like hours. Only when she abandons Guido with a torchy kiss-off number, Be On Your Own, does her pent-up rage kindle some semblance of warmth...