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...Know The General is an account of four visits, none longer than three weeks, which Greene made between 1976 and 1980 Though the General was Greene's host, the writer spent most of his time visiting the far corners of the country accompanied only by the fascinating Chuchu, a Marxist math professor who was Torrijos' bodyguard But Greene's travel writing falters Characters float in and out without explanation and personal relationships are never resolved. Greene's major preoccupation while in Panama, if we may judge from the repeated mention it receives, is the search for a good rum punch...
...bones as thin and brittle as dead twigs produced controversy as well as compassion. The Rev. Charles Elliott, a British relief official who until last month was the director of Christian Aid, claimed that the U.S. and Britain had withheld assistance with the intention of destabilizing Ethiopia's Marxist government. M. Peter McPherson, U.S. administrator of the Agency for International Development, denied such charges and instead blamed the Soviet Union for its "callous indifference" to the plight of its African ally. The Soviets, said McPherson, have provided Ethiopia with some $3 billion worth of weapons but only...
...first time since the Marxist-led Sandinista government came to power in 1979, prisoners were exchanged with one of the three major guerrilla groups that oppose the regime. In a village on Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, Misurasata, an armed resistance movement of Miskito Indians, freed two Sandinistas and their bodyguard, who had been captured by the Miskitos in September. The next day, the Sandinistas released three Miskitos held as subversives. Said Brooklyn Rivera, a Misurasata leader who helped arrange the exchange: "The Sandinistas have learned that we are not counterrevolutionaries. Rather, we are Indians fighting for the just rights...
...reservation had been made for "Mr.Smith," but when the passenger arrived at the Manchester airport for the early-morning flight to Paris, he was recognized as Arthur Scargill, Marxist leader of the British mineworkers union. Scargill, the London Sunday Times reported, had been on his way to a secret meeting with a Libyan official described by French intelligence as a liaison between the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and international terrorists. A mineworkers' executive later went to Tripoli and met with Gaddafi...
...awakes is an ugly contrast to the splendid dining-room where he was entertained the previous evening; the other saying that the names have been made up for the firing squads; he must shoot first if he does not want to be shot." Reviewing the work of a Marxist critic, Waugh pounced with feigned humility: "His thesis, if I do not misunderstand him, is that the class struggle is the only topic worth a writer's attention; his difficulty that this means relegating to insignificance almost the whole of the world's literature...