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Much of the credit goes to the pragmatic Socialist government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Marquez, 44, who is now in his fifth year in office. Gonzalez has offered generous investment incentives to both domestic and foreign companies. These subsidies often include grants amounting to as much as 30% of a firm's capital outlays, as well as tax breaks that increase with the number of Spanish workers hired. Under the government's direction, many once sclerotic state-owned companies are selling off parts of their operations or forming joint ventures with private firms. Most important, by leading his country...
When Felipe Gonzalez Marquez's Socialists swept to power in 1982, a jubilant crowd of 4,000 supporters held a raucous celebration outside the party's election headquarters in Madrid. Fearing a violent rightist reaction, Gonzalez urged his supporters to keep cool, saying, "We don't want any saviors with machine guns." Some went to bed that night fearing that the army might try to seize power...
...AFFAIR: THE CASE OF ALFRED DREYFUS, Jean-Denis Bredin LESS THAN ONE, Joseph Brodsky RAIN OR SHINE, Cyra McFadden THE STORY OF A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR, Gabriel Garcia Marquez THE TENDER PASSION, Peter Gay WISEGUY, Nicholas Pileggi
...intriguing ambience, the central story, recalled by Velasco through the medium of Garcia Marquez, needs no enhancing; the interest commandeered by catastrophes at sea is at least as old as the Odyssey. After eight months of repairs in Mobile, the destroyer Caldas prepares to sail home to Cartagena. The sailors bid farewell to onshore companions. "Our girlfriends wept," Velasco remembers, "and drank whiskey at a dollar and a half a bottle." This attention to specifics serves him well during what is to follow and gets him into trouble later on. For the Caldas does not run into a storm...
...difficult to distinguish the contributions of Velasco, who was 20 at the time of his adventure and called Fatso by his crew mates, from those of Garcia Marquez. When the simple sailor remarks upon his "indefatigable desire to live," the presence of the aspiring author who had read his Faulkner and Hemingway seems self-evident. But these literary touches only add zest to an already astounding saga. Those who care about the career of Garcia Marquez will find much of interest here. And so will readers who want to know how it feels to be at the mercy of nature...