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...including Luis Pallais, publisher of Novedades. Somoza had never bothered to occupy the presidential offices, preferring more secure quarters in his bunker on the grounds of the nearby National Guard training center. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Managua, Miguel Obando y Bravo, and the bishops of León and Granada, who earlier in the month had demanded Somoza's resignation, immediately offered their services as mediators. So did the ambassadors of Costa Rica and Panama. They quickly reported back with the guerrillas' demands: 1) the release of 59 political prisoners; 2) $10 million; 3) repeated broadcasts over government radio...
...DOUBTFUL that the situation could remain the same for that long. Just last week, the Sandinistas launched another in a series of military offensives that began last October, engaging the National Guard in the villages of Granada, Rivas and Corinto. The Sandinista front has made a conscious effort to transcend their narrow revolutionary ideology and military approach, and instead enlist the support of all Somoza opponents in a pluralistic coalition. With the increasing political support of non-Socialist groups such as the Conservative Party and the "radical Christians," the Sandinista effort to topple the dictatorial Somoza regime appears bound...
...outs are Matisse's last resolution of two visions of nature that were woven into his birthright as a painter: the European heritage of symbols. One was the artificial paradise garden, whose chief example (for Matisse) was the Alhambra in Granada-nature tamed, formalized and patterned to the highest degree of artifice and comfort. A work like the Large Decoration with Masks, 1953, with its repeated gridwork of leaves and cloves, alludes directly to Arabic tilework. But the other prototype was the vision of the natural paradise, exemplified since the 18th century by Tahiti. Matisse had gone to Tahiti...
Richard Panek El Granada, Calif...
...Blow, Gabriel, Blow to the romantic experimental ballads Night and Day and Begin the Beguine. His polished lyrics have rarely been equaled-some scarcely need melody to support them: "Is it an earthquake/ or simply a shock?/ Is it the good turtle soup/ or merely the mock? . . . is it Granada I see/ or only Asbury Park...