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...Cordovan, Spain's foremost matador with a record of more than 2,000 bulls and an unforgettable style of frog jumps and other moves that brought the bulls-and the people-to their knees? In 1972, with no more whirls to conquer, El Cordobés, a.k.a. Manuel Benítez Pérez, retired as a millionaire to a cattle and pig farm. But the quiet palled, and, after testing the ring and his reflexes in a benefit performance last year, El Cordobés decided to retire from retirement. Last week's fight at Benidorm...
...Economics. In 1934 he bought a dormant Lima newspaper, La Prensa, and despite lengthy absences to serve in government, managed to build it into his nation's most influential paper. A fiscal conservative who staunchly opposed Communism, he was named Finance Minister and Prime Minister by President Manuel Prado in 1959 and during the next two years managed to cut Peru's inflation rate from 11% to 3% and erase the government's budget deficit. Resigning in 1961 after a futile bid for the presidency, Beltran continued editing La Prensa until 1974, when the military government expropriated...
...star witness was the cool, enigmatic, self-described leader of the assassination squad, Michael Vernon Townley, 36, an American who cooperated with the prosecution in return for a lenient sentence of three years and four months. Townley testified that Letelier's murder had been ordered by General Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, chief of the now defunct Chilean secret police, DINA. According to Townley, Contreras had demanded the killing because Letelier, a socialist, was considered a dangerous opponent of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's military regime...
Other critics contended that the call for evangelism was naive. Wrote Manuel Stephens Garcia, noted Mexico City political columnist: "When you speak of revolution, the problem of hatred and violence immediately emerges. But Brother John Paul, do you believe that the rich and powerful, who now as a hundred years ago imagine Latin America as their own private property, are going to yield their privileged position, their businesses, by a pacific process of civil, moral and spiritual conviction...
...anti-novel without a definable plot. Interspersed between chapters without numbers and of varying lengths, are news-clippings about the torture of Latin American revolutionaries and their terrorist endeavors. Cortazar builds the entire book around these visually super-imposed articles, which are being compiled for a scrapbook for Manuel, the child of a Screwery member. The collection serves as a guide to the beliefs of Manuel's parents...