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Forty weatherbeaten shacks and a grassy airstrip by a swampy river delta may not seem like much of a military stronghold. "But in the year-old guerrilla war along Nicaragua's southern border with Costa Rica, the jungle hamlet of San Juan del Norte has taken on a symbolic importance well beyond its dubious strategic value. After three days of pitched battle two weeks ago, contra guerrillas from the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) overwhelmed the Sandinista garrison in the town and scored their first major military victory. After a few uneasy days of quiet, Nicaraguan troops counterattacked last week...
...strength that are soon to begin along Nicaragua's northern border. As part of a coordinated offensive, some 6,000 CIA-backed contras were marching from their Honduran base camps into the Nicaraguan interior. Simultaneously a 200-man contra column moved from the south to occupy a strategic hamlet on Nicaragua's isolated Caribbean coast and gain a new military and political advantage after the most intense and sustained fighting of their hit-and-run guerrilla war. In addition, members of the southern invading force were making an extraordinary claim: that their operations were aided by American support...
...action," except for one chaste kiss, occurs offstage and is relayed to the audience as a Texas family's gossip. The play's teen-age sisters might be called Rosie and Gilda; they are as irrelevant to their small town's melodramas as Hamlet's foppish courtiers were to the royal carnage. Life is a soap opera they will be able to experience only vicariously...
...Nixon Administration. But Fo is examining something more sinister than Watergate ever was. Fo is thinking of a dark, sanctioned thuggery-the kind that kills-and of an endless manipulation of the record, the facts of the past dissolving and reforming themselves into new shapes, like that cloud that Hamlet and Polonius discussed. Certain psychological and moral circumstances, Fo knows, bring about an irrevocable extinction of the truth. -By Lance Morrow
...year. One of his favorite works of Shakespeare. Farrell describes Richard II as serious poetry that portrays an element of sadness. "It is not depressing sad, but the kind that makes you think." Filming Richard II also had practical advantages. Not as popular as other Shakespeare plays such as Hamlet or Macbeth, a production of it leaves more room for creativity and less room for comparison. Also, as a work of Shakespeare, Richard II is guaranteed an audience...