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...police surveillance. Spanish Interior Ministry officials said the couple were carrying arms in their car. Múgica and Olarra are accused of numerous attacks and killings in Spain. Olarra is thought to have become ETA's military leader after the arrest in France of his predecessor, Francisco Javier García Gaztelu, in February last year. C.I.S. Wasted Time AIDS is spreading faster in the countries of the former Soviet Union than anywhere else, and time has been lost in combatting the disease because the magnitude of the epidemic was underestimated, according to a U.N. report. Young people...
Torrijos, who had wrested power from the ruling Arias family in 1968, was a showman, a strongman and a dreamer, an irresistible combination for Greene. The general was also a friend of Tito's, an admirer of Gabriel GarcÍa Márquez's novels and a lover of numerous mistresses. "How could one fail," writes Greene with pointed sincerity, "to like this man?" The general had remained in power be cause of what Greene acknowledges was "a streak of cynical wisdom." Torrijos liked to announce, "I don't want to enter into history. I want...
ERENDIRA The dreamscape of a Gabriel García Márquez story is like the vision of a Chagall on peyote. Violence and magic live there, in a desert village that holds the secret to every folktale and human atrocity. There a rose can glow in the dark, an orange open to reveal a diamond in its center, a paper butterfly take flight and land against a wall, fresh and flat as new paint. In a dark, lush corner of the Garcia Marquez canvas one can see Erendira (pronounced Eh-ren-de-ra) and her dotty grandmother. They live...
...began in 1971 to form clandestine left-wing groups to foster his own version of "armed struggle"; the units eventually specialized in kidnaping and urban terror. Villalobos created a major scandal in revolutionary circles in 1975 when he ordered the execution of a well-known Communist poet, Roque Dalton García, on trumped-up charges of being an agent of both the CIA and Cuba. In reality, Dalton was Villalobos' chief political rival. The killing led to bitter internal fights and schisms...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez. The 1982 Nobel laureate mixes imagination and fact into a suspenseful novella of honor and revenge in a Colombian town...