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...this is not to say that Les Sauvages has no charm. Somehow in the midst of the dizzying swirl of traffic and rain, perfume industrialists and mango trees, a few beautiful moments manage to emerge. When Nelly (the crazy blonde) and Martin (the former perfume magnate) are alone on the island, he calls her up on the phone that connects two straw huts to invite her to dinner and she insists that she is really much, much too busy. She is eating a peach and thumbing absentmindedly through an old magazine. When we discover that Martin is not just...
Somoza has accomplished that. Last November, in a clash with National Guard troops, the Sandinistas' secretary-general, Carlos Fonseca Amador, 40, was killed en route to a meeting, laid out under a mango tree and photographed; his fingertips were then sliced off for exact identification. Other ranking leaders of the leftist rebel movement have also been killed. Last month, in an unpublicized trial in Managua, 36 captured guerrillas and 74 of their compatriots who were tried in absentia drew sentences ranging from 18 months to 129 years in prison...
...Saint-Claude Hospital. A large poster in Basse-Terre announces that the Tivoli Cinema is showing Hell Is Empty. Yet in the town of Saint-Claude, halfway up the slopes, there remains one elderly couple that refuses to leave. Says Dorome Cherize, 61, as she munches on a mango: "I stay here till I die. If the mountain blows, the country disappears. I stay here...
...first major city to fall was Jessore. TIME'S William Stewart, who rode into the key railroad junction with the Indian troops, cabled: "Jessore, India's first strategic prize, fell as easily as a mango ripened by a long Bengal summer. It shows no damage from fighting. In fact, the Pakistani 9th Division headquarters had quit Jessore days before the Indian advance, and only four battalions were left to face the onslaught...
...Your mango groves are heady with fragrance, The air intoxicates like wine...