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...artist in dyspeptic old age. Francisco Pradilla's tempestuous 1877 painting of a grieving Queen Juana la Loca is perhaps the most striking of the exhibition's vast historical works. Their general heaviness is relieved in the last two galleries by the delightful impressionistic works of Mariano Fortuny and Joaquín Sorolla, including the latter's sun-dappled Young Boys on the Beach. The show also boasts a dozen drawings by Goya, including the phantasmagoric Winged Bull, which the museum bought at auction last year for $2.6 million...
...RETIRED. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, 69, as the Pope's chief spokesman, after more than 20 years as the unflappable public face of the Vatican; in Vatican City. A confidant of John Paul II, the Spanish-born former journalist-the first non-cleric to take the job-modernized the Vatican's information service and helped move the Holy See into the Internet...
...week, few insiders consider it likely. "If John Paul was going to resign, it would have already happened," says longtime Rome-based Jesuit priest Keith Pecklers. "He identifies with the mystery of Christ's suffering." Keeping the world updated last week on the Pope's latest health scare was Joaquín Navarro-Valls. A former psychiatrist and journalist, the 68-year-old Spaniard has been the papal spokesman since 1984 and is in constant contact with the Holy Father. Though some veteran Vatican watchers complain that Navarro-Valls spins the world about the Pope's physical condition - he insisted...
...past, the guerrillas have made offers of their own to negotiate; when they agreed to the La Palma meeting, said Zamora, it was in recognition of "domestic pressure. We know that if we separate from the people, it means we lose the war." Even so, one important guerrilla commander, Joaquín Villalobos, head of a faction known as the People's Revolutionary Army, was unable to attend. The reason: difficulties in traveling from his remote stronghold in the department of Moraz...
...bring an end to years of bickering. Instead, it created a new crisis around the leadership of the two most powerful rebel organizations: the 3,000-member Popular Liberation Forces (F.P.L.), led by Salvador Cayetano Carpio, and the 4,000-member People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), headed by Joaquín Villalobos. The guerrillas insist that the struggle has been resolved. So, in a way, it has: Carpio died under mysterious circumstances last year at 63, and his group has suffered a splintering of its forces. Villalobos, 32, has emerged as first among equals in the revolutionary hierarchy...