Word: juan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adventure traverses a course charted by Don Juan and Carlos Castaneda; by now it should be no more challenging than a walk around the block. Instead, Poet Neil Claremon, in his first novel, manages to trap the solar energy of his landscape; the shadowy Indian existence is thrown against the brilliant screen of another reality that hovers, shimmers and then vanishes the way it came. Claremon is a bit of a necromancer himself, easily summoning up the spirits of B. Traven, Garcia Lorca and-unhappily -Ernest Hemingway. It is in echoing Papa's Spanish style that the novelist makes...
...taxi from San Juan takes almost three hours to reach St. Vincent. As the islands slide by, embedded in their wrinkled sheet of sapphire, you run over your limited skills and lubberly sailing experience and watch your confidence begin to ebb. Bareboating is a cheap way to sail, but it is not for everyone-if only because a prospective skipper needs to show some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang...
While driving through the Buenos Aires suburb of La Lucila last September, Juan and Jorge Born, members of one of Argentina's richest families, were abducted by left-wing Montonero guerrillas. As a trainload of commuters watched in horror, the Montoneros, posing as policemen and telephone workers, forced the Borns' limousine into a side street, shot and killed their chauffeur and a business associate who was riding with them, and seized the brothers. Both were executives in the family-owned Bunge y Born, the largest privately owned firm in Argentina (grain, metals, Pharmaceuticals, textiles...
Last week, after months of rumors that negotiations were under way, the Montoneros released Jorge Born, 41, at a railway station near the capital. Juan, 40, had been quietly released several months ago, apparently because his abductors feared for his health, but the news had been withheld so as not to endanger Jorge. Reported size of the Borns' ransom, perhaps the largest ever paid: $60 million...
Threats of Upheaval. Ironically, many of the economic measures now being taken could have been imposed with far less turmoil two years ago, when the government under newly installed President Juan Perón enjoyed immense popularity. Now, badly weakened and without the unifying prestige of el Líder, the government may not be able to withstand the growing political pressures. One ominous possibility for the future is a military coup. Until recently, most people remained confident that the armed forces would stay out of politics, mainly because taking power would require the armed forces to shoulder the blame...