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...first full-length novel since 1955, Budd Schulberg makes a bold attempt to invade the thoughts of an aging revolutionary. Justo Moreno Suaárez is the provisional President of a nation's revolutionary government. A former professor of political science, Moreno was a helpful hand in toppling the corrupt regime of President Zamora and aided the rise to power of Angel Bello, the people's hero. Bello rewards Moreno by making him a puppet president, whose essential task is to lend the revolution a respectable imprimatur...
Public Warning. Success has won Opus many enemies. It is attacked by old-guard Falangists as "liberal," by campus radicals as "reactionary," by labor leaders as an "economic elite." It is often accused of plotting to seize power after Franco dies, and Fray Justo Pérez de Urbel, abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Franco's Valley of the Fallen civil-war monument, recently warned it in a newspaper article to stop "playing politics...
...over the rebels and announced the death of the Castroites' leader. After days of searching, troops moved in on a gathering of guerillas at a sawmill near the town of San José de las Matas in the central mountains. When the shooting ended, Manuel Tavárez Justo, 35, avowed Marxist and admirer of Castro, was dead, along with 14 of his comrades. Five others were captured. At first, Tavárez Justo's death was called a suicide, but later the government said that he had been shot to death in a gunfight with the soldiers...
Signed by Cardona, Dr. Manuel de Varona, Dr. Antonio Maceo, Dr. Justo Carillo, Manuel Ray, and Carlos Havevia, the statement asserted that "you, the illustrious professors of Harvard, steeped in learning, should have explored the statistical facts in this situation before making such an irresponsible statement...
...Notably, handsome Lightweight Justo Antonio Suárez, who held rank equivalent to First Secretary of Embassy when he fought Billy Petrolle, the old "Fargo Express," in 1931. First Secretary Suarez lasted nine rounds...