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When a band of Argentine officers revolted last Easter, President Raul Alfonsin rushed to the Campo de Mayo army garrison near Buenos Aires and talked the mutineers into surrendering. Faced last week with another rebellion of disgruntled soldiers in the northeastern city of Monte Caseros, Alfonsin chose not to waste any more words. Instead he sent 2,000 loyalist troops to crush the rebels at a local army base, ending a three-day uprising that had spread to several other units...
This has created a heady climate of creative liberation. Spiegelman's New York City-based Raw magazine publishes some of the more outre work in graphic narrative, including the psychotic and hilarious misadventures of a couple of pen-and-ink Easter Island profiles named Amy and Jordan, chronicled by Mark Beyer. Pantheon has just issued a collection of their tribulations in book form, aptly titled Agony (173 pages; $7.95). Out on the West Coast, the work of the brothers Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez appears in books bearing the title of the comic in which they originated, Love and Rockets...
Simon spent the Korean War as an Army private in West Germany, interrogating East German defectors. A diary he briefly kept during this period tends toward the prosaic: "Attended Easter Service in downtown Stuttgart. Went away very much uninspired." Back in Troy, he mounted an uphill campaign for state representative in 1954 "to show that you could beat the system." By dint of his innate friendliness and the hard work of shaking 30,000 hands, he succeeded...
...staffer: "She was close in but never inside." Some House members regard her as a bit of a flake. She signs her congressional mail with a smile symbol and is still taunted from time to time for having donned a bunny suit in China, to entertain children during Easter...
...like before Easter...