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...Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda (a 1971 Nobel laureate) once honored his colleague's work as "the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the Don Quixote of Cervantes." The Swedish Academy echoed that judgment when it awarded Colombian Author Gabriel García Márquez, 54, the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature last week. "His novels and short stories," reads the citation, combine the fantastic and the realistic "in a richly composed world of the imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts...
While OPIC has never lost money, it has paid off some hefty insurance claims. OPIC paid $316 million to ITT, Anaconda and 13 other U.S. firms whose property was expropriated in 1971 by Chile's Salvador Allende, but expects to recover the bulk of that from the present Chilean government. Firms driven out of Iran in 1979 have received an additional $14.5 million from OPIC, whose total liability to them could reach $40 million...
...center and a gallery shop. But even when it was only a converted 19th century farmhouse and hay barn, Weston welcomed outsiders. These visitors have led the brothers to worlds unexpectedly far from the priory's hill. In 1974 two papal volunteers, a native Vermonter and his Chilean-born wife, stopped at the priory en route to Mexico, where they established a farm cooperative. That acquaintance eventually took the entire Weston community to Mexico on two extended retreats. First the monks spent a week visiting poor urban centers or traveling by horse or burro along narrow footpaths to remote...
...military regime, and a younger group of prelates-perhaps as many as 20 of the country's 80 bishops-who are growing impatient for social change and a swift return to democracy. Archbishop Jaime Francisco de Nevares of Neuquen, in a poor region of Argentina along the Chilean border, is among the most vocal of the new activists. "We have a reputation for being moderate," he says acidly, charging that "Argentine bishops have not spoken out strongly enough against injustice" in the country. "Had we taken a stronger stand, much suffering could have been avoided." What might have worked...
...cosmos revolves around them, other characters occasionally appear in person or memory. There is Fenwick's twin brother Manfred, a more sinister CIA agent, recently drowned under suspicious circumstances. Manfred's son (by Susan's mother) is either in a Chilean prison or dead. Susan's twin sister Miriam pops up when the story needs her; she is still scarred from being raped by a motorcycle gang and tortured by the Shah's secret police in Iran. She and her current lover, a Vietnamese refugee, have an infant son named Edgar Allan...