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...hands of radical governments. Says Francois Heisbourg, a former adviser to the Defense Ministry: "This country could probably be making several billion dollars a year more if it were willing to sell to just anybody." Paris claims to sell no weapons to South Africa, and direct deals with Libya, Chile and Iran have been ended...
...archaeologists, tiny Easter Island, located in the Pacific more than 2,000 miles west of mainland Chile, is a treasure. Its giant brooding stone figures, fashioned centuries ago, look stoically out to sea, their purpose an age-old mystery. For the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, there is a different attraction: NASA would like to use Easter Island as a possible emergency landing site for the space shuttle. Under a plan proposed to Chile, which owns the 45.5-sq.-mi. speck, NASA would spend an estimated $11 million to lengthen the 8,500-ft. local runway by about half...
...Spirits, however, both setting and time frame are abundantly clear, despite Allende's refusal to name explicitly the nation in which her tale unfolds. It doesn't take long even for the casual student of South American history to realize that Allende is writing about her native Chile--the nation from which she has been excited since...
Political undertones notwithstanding, The House of the Spirits is essentially a family saga encompassing four generations. The country is unnamed, though the character called the Candidate and later the President is manifestly Salvador Allende. Similarly, the Poet, whose verse everyone in the book seems to have memorized, is clearly Chile's late Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. Ghostly happenings are commonplace in the great house of the "spirits" belonging to the Truebas. Eccentrics abound in that household. Rosa the Beautiful, for example, possesses a head of green hair that hangs "like a botanical mantle" down to her waist. Nicolas Trueba moves...
...antic narrative is carried along by Allende's natural sense of fun until her characters reach the 1970s. At this juncture the Truebas are drawn into the violent confrontations between oligarchs and socialists that have afflicted modern Chile. The author here begins to exercise her skills as a journalist as she evokes the turbulent events she witnessed during the Marxists' electrifying rise and precipitous fall. Not surprisingly, magic subsides and realism takes over. Allende deftly turns her characters into archetypes of Latin America's left and right...