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...tyranny. Reason and understanding are superior to the illusion of the effectiveness of force." That advice from the rostrum in the House of Representatives, directed at the Reagan Administration's policies in Central America, came not from a Democratic Congressman but from Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, leader of a nation sandwiched between the U.S. and Central America, with a capital city nearly as populous as all of the isthmus' tiny republics put together...
...after the polls had closed, the electoral experiment began to slide into the kind of political violence and chaos that torments the rest of Central America. As the National Tabulating Board laboriously hand-tallied several hundred thousand votes and inexplicably delayed announcing even partial results, supporters of Arnulfo Arias Madrid, 82, took to the streets to protest what they claimed was a clumsy attempt by his opponents to steal the election...
...alleged masterminds of the drug ring lived in different countries. Gaetano Badalamenti, arrested in Madrid last week, was the Sicilian connection. Badalamenti was described as one of the heads of the worldwide Mafia. His "big cheese" in the U.S. was Salvatore Catalano, purportedly a leader of the Bonanno crime family...
Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado visited Brasilia last week to confer with his Brazilian counterpart, Joào Figueiredo. The two leaders had some blunt words for their creditors. Figueiredo complained of high interest rates that "threaten to perpetuate our foreign debt problems." De la Madrid said, with much justification, that Latin America could not boost exports enough to pay its debts if creditor countries erected "ever increasing protectionist measures" against imports from the developing nations. The day before De la Madrid spoke, the Reagan Administration announced a cutback in the number of products allowed to enter...
...listener in mind of Richard Strauss's dictum that only the audience should sweat at a concert, never the conductor. In the first section of Debussy's Iberia, Celibidache's unerring grasp of detail evokes a Spanish haze that shimmers like the heat off a Madrid sidewalk in midsummer. The cool, nocturnal redolence of the slow movement, Les parfums de la nuit, hangs suspended in the air until dispersed by the boisterousness of the finale...