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Britain's most versatile man of letters was once the fledgling rebel with a cause. When Michael Frayn was a schoolboy in the late 1940s, he and a friend "discovered the revolutionary tradition. We ran an unofficial Marxist cell, and I described myself as a Communist." Frayn's widowed father...
After ordering three jet fighters under his command to buzz the capital, Vargas flew to an air base in his home province of Manabí, some 150 miles to the southwest, and began a five-day rebellion. "Better to die like a man than live like a coward," he declared. The...
An ecstatic Vargas promptly flew to the port city of Guayaquil. Said he: "I am at your orders, Mr. President." The general was placed in custody and then held at the Mariscal Sucre Air Base outside the capital. The government, meanwhile, was vague about whether Piñeiros and Albuja had...
He did, however, declare that the U.S. wholeheartedly backed President José Napoleón Duarte's recent offer to meet with Salvadoran rebels if the Sandinista government in Nicaragua would in turn hold talks with the contras. If that should happen, declared Habib, the Reagan Administration would be prepared to resume...
"The world's longest-running erotic stage musical," as it is now billed, has changed little since those Pleistocene days, and today's critics would probably make the same judgments as their predecessors. "With all my heart, I recommend staying away from the slick and repulsive come-on called Oh...