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...drug lords seem to be getting the message. An authorized spokesman for one of the cartels told TIME that Escobar, Gacha and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, don of the Cali cartel, recognize Barco's inflexibility and are waiting for his term to expire next August. Says the source: "They'll try to reason with the next President." But "reason" is surely a euphemism for "control." Through intermediaries, the narcos are putting money behind candidates for President, Congress and mayors of key cities. After election day, the bill will come...
...unique harmonies. Maria Bethania, 43, first achieved prominence in 1965, when she substituted for the ailing star of a Rio musical. Her dark, husky voice shares a certain androgynous quality with those of some of Brazil's other top performers. Bethania's brother, Veloso, 47, is -- along with Gilberto Gil -- one of the main exponents of tropicalismo, the buoyant music of the student generation that emerged during a period of military dictatorship after 1964. That style advocated the rights of blacks, reintroduced strong Afro-Brazilian rhythms and made prominent use of electric guitars. Veloso projects intimacy in personal, deeply reflective...
Hondurans contend that the contras are made in the U.S.A., so they are a Yanqui problem. "They were armed, trained and encouraged by the U.S.," says Gilberto Goldstein, an opposition assemblyman. "If the U.S. has no further use for them, it should at least take care of them. The problem shouldn't be dumped on us." Officially, Washington has no plans to deal with the contras if funding is irrevocably halted. But a U.S. official in the region says, "We have assured the Hondurans that we will take care of the problem when and if it arises...
...describing it as the beginning of a new campaign for the "conquest of peace, bread, work and liberty." More Americans will be killed, they declared, if the Reagan Administration's "interventionist policy" continues. The guerrillas claimed to have killed or wounded 600 Salvadorans, including the brigade's commander, Colonel Gilberto Rubio. In truth, the number of dead and wounded was probably no more than 130, and Rubio had escaped with a slight injury to his hand...
...book production. His early lists emphasized Russian authors, but he also published Thomas Mann, T.S. Eliot, André Gide, D.H. Lawrence and Franz Kafka, among other eminent Europeans, and such U.S. writers as Willa Gather, H.L. Mencken, John Hersey and Samuel Eliot Morison, and Latin Americans Jorge Amado and Gilberto Freyre...