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...Villalobos caused a sizable scandal in Latin American leftist circles when he personally executed a well-known Communist poet, Roque Dalton Garcia, on trumped-up charges of being an agent of the CIA. In reality, Dalton was Villalobos' chief political rival. The killing led to bitter factional fights within the E.R.P. and to a breakaway movement. Villalobos' chief gestures of conciliation, on the other hand, have been toward his erstwhile enemy, the Salvadoran army. While some extremists want to purge the whole force in the event of a guerrilla victory, Villalobos has said that "those army sectors that...
This article appeared in the January 27, 1976 issue of the Crimson. Its author, Joseph W. Dalton '79, is now vacationing in Dreamland...
...STONES HAVE been around for so long that most people listening to them today either can't remember or never knew in the first place where these guys actually came from. As Dalton quickly proves, you can't understand the group unless you're aware of a history that goes back beyond "Brown Sugar," beyond "Honky Tonk Woman," into the murky period before "Satisfaction" was even an embryonic riff ringing from Keef's Stratocaster...
...TRACES the Stones' musical development through the 1960s and 1970s, Dalton also provides a revealing perspective on the private lives and individual psyches that made up the group. He lets Jagger and Jones speak for themselves on their power struggle early on and describes the brilliant efforts of producer Andrew Loog Oldham to package his charges as popular music's bad little mannish boys. And then, once those boys grew up, came the years totally clouded over by drugs, debauchery, and disillusionment, leading ultimately to Brian's death and the rebirth of the others. Struggling to reassert themselves, the Stones...
...question of age and ultimate aims inevitably dominates, for that has become the most prominent theme since the Stones hit middle age. Dalton succeeds, however, in placing the problem in perspective; it is not, as some critics now seem to imply, the only major concern that has plagued the group in recent years. They still think a lot about making good music, as they have on the current tour. The author quotes Jagger: "What I was doing when I was 18, I'm doing now.... I'm married and have children and all that, but I don't worry about...