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...been hiding in the clannish fold of South America's German immigrant communities. Brazil is home to more than 3.6 million ethnic Germans; in many areas, the German language is still more prevalent than Portuguese, and towns bear names such as Blumenau, Frederico Westphalen and Novo Hamburgo. Near the Chilean city of Parral, 300 Germans have set up a closed community called Colonia Dignidad. Protected by a high fence, the colony observes its own laws and has been reported to shelter at least two former ranking Nazis...
...Chilean Composer and Musicologist Juan Allende-Blin reconstructed and orchestrated about 400 bars of the opera. Debussy's brooding music is spheres apart from the pastoral beauties of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun or the nautical tone painting of La Mer. Indeed, in its consummate wedding of text to music, the work Usher most closely resembles is Debussy's only completed opera, the shadowy symbolist drama Pelleas et Melisande. The tormented Roderick Usher, Poe's unhappy protagonist, is depicted in agonized music that is drenched by the misery in the man's soul. Debussy intended Usher to last...
...Chilean government is expected to approve NASA's proposal, despite opposition from a number of Chileans. In a letter to a Santiago newspaper, members of an environmental group, the League for Nature and Peace, warned against "the great ecological damage that such a venture will bring to Easter Island." But David Garrett, NASA spokesman for Space Flight, insists that if the project is approved, NASA will "abide by all Chilean environmental- protection requirements...
...unabashed leftist, Swanson is an intelligent and highly intelligible radical in an age which no longer deals kindly with the breed. Since graduating from Harvard in 1974, he has traveled in the Third World and written extensively about his findings. And whether writing on slain Chilean leader Salvador Allende, Spanish democracy or, most recently, the growing crisis in South Africa, he has never waivered in his impassioned attacks on the victimization of the poor by the rich, the Third World by the superpowers...
...Chilean military aircraft take them on to Lieut. Marsh Base in Antarctica for a spot of penguin watching. Looking for something really different? For $751 you can fly from Paris to Tamanrasset, an Algerian town at the edge of the Sahara. From there you travel by Land Rover on a two-week trek into the desert. You can ride a camel too, but beware of scorpions...