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...long siege. According to one senior officer, the Malvinas, as the islands are called in Spanish, were so heavily fortified that the British could never retake them. "If they intend to," he said, "it will be a butchery." In the island capital of Port Stanley, General Mario Benjamin Menendez, the newly appointed Argentine governor, was ensconced in the office vacated by Britain's Rex Hunt...
...DIED. Mario Praz, 85, protean scholar who ranged expertly through English literature, philology, art and antiquarianism; in Rome. Praz, who taught for 32 years at the University of Rome, wrote the highly acclaimed The Romantic Agony, a study of sadism in literature...
...much show business and too little fashion business," says Armani, 47, who preferred to present his collection to small groups of buyers. News that drifted out from these private sessions-plus the resplendent showing of a line of suedes and leathers in high-noon colors that Armani designed for Mario Valentino-was sufficient proof that he was still secure atop Stutz's Alps. His absence from the collections-the very term weighty with a self-seriousness completely at variance with Armani's stylings-rebounded loudly and probably widely, at least to Paris, where the French are strutting their...
...have come peacefully, without arms," protested one of the candidates. "I don't understand." Suddenly, a red tear-gas canister landed in the street, scattering the group of journalists who had accompanied the candidates. Sniper fire popped like firecrackers a block away. Finally, the three presidential candidates?Mario Sandoval Alarcón, Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre and Gustavo Anzueto Vielman?offered to go alone to present their grievances to the authorities. The candidates never made it to the presidential palace. Instead, they were taken to police headquarters and lectured by Police Chief General German Chupina for almost an hour...
...retains the foreign-reprint rights-traditionally a low-register gift to the author-on 75% of its contracts. Not every writer is applying for food stamps, of course. John Irving's Hotel New Hampshire brought $2.25 million; Albert Goldman's Elvis nailed down $1 million, and Mario Puzo sold a "prequel"-an antecedent-to The Godfather story for about $2 million...