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Died. Héctor Garcia Godoy, 49, Dominican diplomat and politician, a candidate for President in the May 16 elections in his troubled Caribbean nation; of a heart attack; in Santo Domingo. A moderate leftist, Garcia Godoy rose to prominence in 1965 as provisional President following a bitter civil war and subsequent U.S. military occupation. Though received with suspicion by both the right and the left, he proved an able conciliator and for ten months kept the country together until it was possible to hold free elections...
Last year's three alternating second basemen. Bill Cheery, John Ballentyne, and Chico Garcia, all failed to come out for the team this spring. Their absence should not hurt the team, for they were expected to play behind two sophomores anyway, Vince McGugan and Roxbury Latin's Tim Bilodeau...
...Gabriel Garcia Márquez spent the first eight years of his life in Aracataca, a steamy banana town not far from the Colombian coast. "Nothing interesting has happened to me since," he has said. His experiences there were eventually transformed into a tenderly comic novel, just published in the U.S. after three years of enormous success in Latin America. It has survived export triumphantly. In a beautiful translation, surrealism and innocence blend to form a wholly individual style. Like rum calentano, the story goes down easily, leaving a rich, sweet burning flavor behind...
...Garcia Márquez's women are magnificent. Stern, stoic, preserved by duty and the dynastic urge, they struggle to keep their men sane. The primal mother Ursula, even at the age of 100, is so sure of her ways that no one realizes she is blind...
...range and length, the book is satisfyingly cohesive where it might be sprawling. The key to this unity is Garcia Márquez's treatment of time. Consider the superb opening sentence: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." Such compression of time makes the novel taut with a sense of fate. Atavistic dictates of blood must be followed. Premonitions invariably come true. A series of coded predictions, written when Macondo was still young, are deciphered only when every prediction...