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...Salvador's capital was transformed into a tableau of horror: exploding hand bombs, wild gunfire, terrified crowds stampeding in panic. Before it was over, 35 people had been killed; 185 others had been hospitalized with serious injuries. "It was pure savagery against defenseless, humble people," lamented a mourner, Bishop Eamon Casey of Galway, Ireland. "There is something vile in this land. Very, very vile...
...funeral took place in a church only 100 yards from the site of the accident and was attended by 1,500 mourners, including both Catholics and Protestants. The majority of them were women. In his homily at the Requiem Mass, Father James Kelly told the congregation: "A broken heart was the cause of Anne's death. In truth she died four years ago." An even more tragic truth is that Mrs. Maguire's suffering was not at all exceptional. "There are hundreds of Mrs. Maguires in Northern Ireland whom you never hear about," said one mourner. "They...
...time to make merry, no place for the mourner...
...lacks only one component-truth. As two newly reissued volumes show, Camus was not a mourner of the human condition but its celebrant. The two-volume Notebooks (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $3.95 each) follow the writer from 1935 to 1951 and neatly cleave the legend from the man. In the process they show why his formal works are as pertinent as the day they were written, a world...
...citizens of Vitoria carried the coffins of the slain through their streets last week, one mourner warned darkly, "We want to know who is responsible for these things. It is not enough to have some resignations." As if to underline the widespread anger, Basque leftists and separatists vowed to continue work stoppages this week. Juan Carlos will not find it easy to appease that anger and to keep at bay those who feel the need to reimpose the old days of order and discipline...