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Shortly after his warm handshake with González at the royal palace (González, a nonpracticing Catholic, bowed but did not kiss the Pope's ring), John Paul II spoke at a Mass in Madrid's Plaza de Lima before more than a million cheering spectators, one of the largest crowds he has drawn in any of his 16 trips abroad. Standing beneath a 30-ft.-high cross on a podium draped in white and yellow papal bunting, the Pontiff put forward in exceptionally strong terms his conservative position on marriage and the family. The Socialists...
...Lima, where Vargas Llosa lives with his wife and three children, he is not only a cultural celebrity but a man who is expected to have the answers to public questions. This is both the blessing and the burden of many writers in Latin America and Europe, where literature and politics retain close ties. For an author in a poor An dean country with a large uneducated Indian population, the is sues and responsibilities are sharpened. "If you are a writer," says Vargas Llosa, "you are a privileged man in this kind of society." Many of his conservative countrymen have...
Aunt Julia is set in that same period of the 1950s, though Odria and his political procurers are not in sight. Instead, Vargas Llosa's Lima is a bright tangle of characters: Indians from the mountains and the edge of the Amazon busy filling up new slums; a middle class trying to keep its balance in an unstable economy; and the rich preserving the good life and marrying off their daughters in style. There are shocks and bizarre surprises, but the prevailing atmosphere of the novel is a melancholy gaiety...
...British fleet. There had even been speculation that the air force had been too badly crippled by losses to re-enter the fray. The British claimed to have downed about 70 aircraft. But according to U.S. sources, the Argentines had also received reinforcements: ten Peruvian Mirages flown from Lima early last week...
...Lima...