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...Gabriel Garcia Márquez spearheads Latin American writing...
...later, my wife connected the iron, and the cord caught fire. There is no need to go on. It is enough to read the papers, and open one's eyes, in order to feel willing to shout along with the French college students: "Power to the imagination!" -Gabriel Garcia Márquez, commenting on art and life...
Under frescoed portraits of Diderot and Voltaire, luminaries ranging from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez to Novelists Norman Mailer and William Styron and Actress Sophia Loren debated such topics as state control of the arts and the unemployment crisis. In between they supped at the Foreign Ministry and lunched with Mitterrand. So dazzling was the cast that even the stars sometimes seemed overwhelmed. Said Film Director Francis Ford Coppola: "The people here are incredible. It's like a college-a very good college." The meeting, Italian Theater Director Giorgio Strehler concluded grandly in his summation, had provoked...
Much of the blame for the guerrillas' success is placed on Salvadoran Defense Minister José Guillermo Garcia. Ignoring U.S. military advice, Garcia has wasted the energies of the 22,000-man Salvadoran army on massive and fruitless sweep operations in the hinterlands, while allowing the guerrillas to exercise their mobility fully in economic sabotage and spectacular urban takeovers. Says a Western military analyst in El Salvador: "There has to be a complete shake-up over at the Salvadoran high command, and a lot of changes within about 60 days, or this thing is going to get a whole...
...significant psychological action." Not only had the guerrillas briefly occupied a major town, but they seemed to have underscored a growing incompetence on the part of the Salvadoran army. U.S. military advisers in El Salvador have repeatedly warned the country's Defense Minister, José Guillermo Garcia, to concentrate on defending economically vital Usulután, where they believe the Salvadoran conflict ultimately will be won or lost. Instead, Garcia had sent the cream of his 22,000-member army into the northeastern department of Morazán, a mountainous guerrilla stronghold that is both economically and militarily unimportant...