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...that marks a break from the past. And that may reflect the fact that a country that has viewed war with deep suspicion for the past half century is now beginning to send men into combat in faraway lands. "This would not have been possible ten years ago," says Joachin Castan, author of the 2007 biography of the flying ace, Der Rote Baron. "It is now possible to ask the question in Germany, 'Can there be a war hero?'" (The film was shot in English and will probably be released outside of Germany sometime in the next year...
...more classic guerrilla methods. When faced with superior firepower, they retreat; when the army moves on, they regroup in their old haunts. Last week, however, the army claimed a major victory over the elusive rebels. A military spokesman contended that one of the country's most important guerrilla commanders, Joachin Villalobos, of the group known as the People's Revolutionary Army, had been shot and perhaps killed in eastern El Salvador. Rebel spokesmen issued denials...
...anti-American rhetoric, the junta proved flexible enough to allay most of Washington's fears. The junta appointed a 15-member Cabinet dominated by moderates, which satisfied American insistence that the new regime should represent all shades of Nicaraguan political opinion. Among its members are Corporate Lawyer Joachin Cuadra Chamorro, Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim, who was rector of the National University, and Cesar Amador Khull, a former officer of the Inter-American Development Bank. There are only two hard-core radicals: a Sandinista commander, Tomás Borge Martinez, who was appointed Interior Minister, and the Rev. Ernesto...
...Where the Bread and Puppet Theater leaves off, El Teatro Campesino (the Farm Workers' Theater) begins. It does not simply point out evil but demands immediate action to eradicate it. An example of contemporary folk art, the Teatro has traveled the dusty roads of California's San Joachin Valley for three years, giving artistic moral support to the strike of César Chávez's Mexican-American grape pickers. The players encourage a revivalist atmosphere of hand clapping and shouting. "We like to make noise," says Director Valdez, who studied drama at San Jose State...
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