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...government policy of funding and militarily aiding the contras is clearly a powerful, destructive offensive move with sickening extensions and implications. One need only read excerpts from the recently exposed CIA manual that instructs the contras--among other things--in techniques of political assassination and kidnapping, to be further convinced of this...
Most of his quandaries arise from Latin American writers' love of verbal play. In A Manual for Manuel, Cortazar characterizes different types of secret policemen in a string of richly suggestive alliterative words, hormigon, hormigucho, etc. In English, a literal translation (big ant, big clumsy ant) would have been ungainly. Rabassa's solution: dominant, sycophant, miscreant...
...country is, quite simply, opposed to justice and liberation in Central America. The mining of the harbor, the CIA manual and the contra funding hurt American prestige and are ineffectual, as liberals claim. The point they miss is that all of these efforts, like Walter F. Mondale's proposed quarantine, are aimed at destroying a government that overthrew a U.S.-sponsored dictatorship which repressed its poverty stricken citizens...
...during the Cultural Revolution, "I was kicked out," he says, and sent to the countryside for physical labor. Hsiao was cultivating grain and rice with other intellectuals from about 5:30 a.m. till 6 or 8 p.m. for almost seven years. Since there was no reading or writing allowed, manual labor was his only activity...
Yang was unable to do manual work because of poor health, so she remained in Shanghai and was "borrowed by the Chinese translation publishing house." In 1973, Ching-Chang Hsiao returned from the countryside and was borrowed by the People's Publishing House as a specialist in Chinese classical language and literature...