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...heart attack; in Washington, B.C. Born in Spain, Sanjuán moved to Cuba in the early 1920s. After establishing the Havana Philharmonic, he led it for nine years, then conducted music in the U.S. and Europe, becoming an American citizen in 1947. His compositions, including Castilla and Liturgia Negra, emphasized the African rhythms inherent in Cuban music...
...Chile in 1970, Neruda served as Chile's Ambassador to France from March 1971 until last February. With royalties from the millions of copies of his books sold round the world, he was able to buy homes in Santiago, Valparaiso and the beach resort area of Isla Negra. Yet for all his bourgeois tastes, Neruda remained a convinced if not always convincing Marxist. He was a friend of Allende's and perhaps his leading propagandist...
...Lives. No one knows why Cruz became a bandit; he came from a peaceful peasant family in the department of Tolima, started out as a hardworking laborer, then suddenly turned up three years ago as Sangre Negra. On March 20, 1961, he burned a hacienda and chopped three men to ribbons with a machete. Seven months later, he and his gang ambushed two police trucks, killing eight policemen. Three months after that, Sangre Negra halted a bus, lined up 17 passengers, slaughtered them all. He kidnaped children, carried off women to be raped and murdered, boldly shot it out with...
...Sangre Negra's own brother, Felipe, 32, who did him in. Hearing that his outlaw kin was coming to kill him, or so he said, Felipe went to the police in the small town of El Cairo, then joined the posse sent to track his brother down. They found Sangre Negra and three of his men terrorizing a farm family a short way out of town. In a blazing 25-minute gunfight, one of the bandits was killed. But when the posse rushed the farmhouse, Sangre Negra and the others were gone. Two days later reinforcements killed...
Cortege of Survivors. A helicopter carried the body to army headquarters at Ibagué, where 25,000 people passed by the litter to stare and make sure that Sangre Negra was really dead. The corpse was then helicoptered to four other mountain towns for display. At last, he was buried in an unmarked grave. Soldiers acted as pallbearers, and the survivors of the Totarito massacre marched behind in a bitter cortege...