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Prowling around in a baggy blue boiler suit, Ann the chef looks more suited to Cultural Revolution-era China than a luxury retreat. But the only ideology to which she demonstrates allegiance is that she must do all she can to please guests at the Tanjong Jara beach resort. Many resorts rely on predictable hotel kitchens. Not this one. Often eschewing menus altogether, chef Ann herself comes to each dinner table and informs you what the kitchen has fresh that day. Maybe red snapper or barramundi. Perhaps green prawns, a range of vegetables, even locally reared venison. Once you select...
HERE in Lima it is still easy to find pirated tapes of Chilean folksinger Victor Jara. Author of lyrics like "Liberate our people from the dominion of the exploiter," he was one of the thousands forced by the Chilean army into the Santiago soccer stadium during the 1973 overthrow of Socialist Salvador Allende. In the stadium with his guitar, Jara began to sing some of his most popular songs; the waiting crowd joined in. The soldiers grabbed him, pulled away his guitar, and chopped off his hands--challenging him to "Try playing now" before killing him. The crowd watched, then...
...before the plebiscite ended in three deaths and 846 arrests; a Chilean music festival three months ago banned a Peruvian singer whose song, "Don't Make Love to Me" had a chorus of "No, no, no, no, no." In Peru--where lack of censorship allows the sale of Victor Jara's music--Chile's neighbors and exiles voted with speeches, conferences, and wishes. They, for now, are safe. But in Chile, with Pinochet conscious of the strong opposition, terror grows...
...Phil Ochs in a gold lame suit never made it, and after a few too many deaths -- the Kennedys, King, Malcolm and Medgar Evers, Allende and Jara--Ochs lost the ability even to try. He pulled himself out of John Train with enough time left to see a few friends. Then, years after he died, he hung himself. In the end, Eliot leaves him with Citizen Kane's epitaph: "it's become a very clear picture. He was the most honest man who ever lived, with a streak of crookedness a yard wide. He was a liberal and reactionary...
...telephone contacts occured only a short time after Townley arrived in the U.S. with an official passport falsely identifying him as Juan Williams Rose. He entered the country with Armando Fernandez Larios, a Chilean army captain whose official passport identified him as Alejandro Romeral Jara...