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...doctorate in political science from Venezuela's Central University, where he taught civil law and was law school dean in the 1950s. He suffered a painful lesson in political repression in 1956 when he was imprisoned for opposing General Marcos Péréz Jiménez. After the Péréz Jiménez dictatorship was overthrown, Aguilar became Minister of Justice under the new Democratic Action government...
Good thing: half a mile offshore MacCready spotted a sinister shape that he took to be a large shark. By the last quarter-mile, Allen said, "my legs started to get useless." He had developed painful cramps, but pedaled on. Finally, as Cap Gris-Nez loomed, he said to himself: "Doggone, I'm going to make...
...Chancellor's appearances with fugal imitations in the orchestra.) This part, and others that used to be done by the late Martyn Green, have been for a quarter century the province of John Reed, who remains a lively and comical performer, despite the excessive doffing and donning of pince-nez. The nightmare number is the greatest of all the G. &. S. patter songs; and Reed, in the encore, increases the headlong tempo beyond what one would think the limit of possibility. At the end of the evening, however, I see no excuse for Reed's electing to change the single...
...Ethiopia and the civil war in Rhodesia. The students seemed confounded. "You are asking us to perform a great abstraction," complained Álvarez. "No, I'm not," said Solarz, "I'm just asking for your personal opinions." "Our opinion is free, open and democratic," explained Jiménez, "but it must coincide with the foreign policy of the revolutionary Cuban government...
Solarz pressed on: "Do you believe Cuba should send its troops into Rhodesia?" Jiménez answered lamely: "We are only modest students who have a certain level of information." Embarrassed silence greeted the Congressman when he asked if the Eritrean secessionists, whom Cuba used to support but now opposes, were counterrevolutionaries. Esteban Morales, one of the four professors present, tried to rescue his uncomfortable students with a little dialectical gobbledygook. "I consider that the analysis of this question," said Morales, "depends on a logical assessment of the concrete situation, and to evaluate, one must ask how to advance...