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...race. The Sandinistas' leading rival now is the Independent Liberal Party, which advocates a mixed economy at home and strict nonalignment. Some Nicaraguans view the Liberals, not the Coordinadora, as the true voice of democracy in the country, but others consider the party's presidential candidate, Virgilio Godoy Reyes, 50, a former Labor Minister, too close to the Sandinistas...
Dartmouth coach Tom Griffith inserted his young second line of freshmen John Godoy and Steve Brooks, sophomore Steve Jonas and senior Bruce Hutchinson, which kept Harvard on the defensive. Brooks finished off a pretty play at 31:19 and Harvard suddenly found itself trailing...
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...
Outside his party, Balaguer has another potential rival in Career Diplomat Hector Garcia-Godoy, now Ambassador to the U.S., who as provisional President helped guide the Dominican Republic back to peace after the 1965 civil war. He also faces a rightist challenge by former General Elias Wessin y Wessin, a major instigator of the coup that backfired into war and brought U.S. intervention. Wessin recently returned from three years in exile to lead an ultraconservative party...
...sovereign, King Charles IV, to immortalize the royal family. The shimmering panorama that Goya created has been called his supreme tour de force. With devastating candor, he laid bare the indolence of the King, the shallow depravity of Queen Maria Luisa (whose intrigues on behalf of her lover Godoy had reduced the Bourbon court to its final debility), and the self-centered vacuity of their relations. In imitation of Velasquez' 1656 portrayal of the royal maids of honor, Las Meninas, Goya painted himself into the picture as a prim, critical observer at his easel on the left...