Word: novoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Metaphysical Anxiety. Under the firm baton of New York City Opera Director Julius Rudel, the singers projected their parts with clarity and polish while threading their way through Ming Cho Lee's surrealistic settings. Mexican Tenor Salvador Novoa eloquently voiced the pain and weakness of the Duke, and statuesque Joanna Simon, as the courtesan, sang her seduction aria in a lustrous mezzo-soprano...
...Army General Alberto Ruiz Novoa, 48, Colombia's war minister and its most compelling public figure (TIME, Dec. 11). Commander of Colombia's small force in the Korean War, he established a reputation as a reformer in uniform after Valencia brought him into the Cabinet in 1962. At the time, the country was plagued by poverty-fed badlands banditry that had been going on unabated for more than a decade. Ruiz Novoa initiated a program of civic action by the army to help peasants improve their lot. He also reorganized Colombia's army into what is today...
Lately, rumors have been going around Bogota that Ruiz Novoa was planning a coup-though he vehemently denied it. The opportunity was supposed to be a general strike called by the unions to protest a broad new sales tax. But the strike, attempted two weeks ago, fizzled completely, and Valencia used the occasion to fire his contentious war minister, charging that Ruiz Novoa's policies were splitting the armed forces. Into his place went General Gabriel Rebeiz Pizarro, 49, second man in the military hierarchy and the one who made the charges against his boss to Valencia...
...People? Few Colombians believe that they have heard the last from the ousted general. After he was cashiered, a group of officers pleaded with him to lead a coup against the government. Ruiz Novoa turned them down with a lecture on democracy. Colombia's Social Christian Democrats have offered to make him their candidate in the 1966 presidential elections, and other anti-government parties are talking of a Ruiz Novoa coalition. He has not yet chosen his political affiliation, but that is only a formality he seems certain to fulfill. Wrote the general in a letter to a friend...
...Watchful Military. The only real power base in Colombia today is the military, and it still seems solidly behind the President. Valencia's war minister, able, astute Major General Alberto Ruiz Novoa, 47, who commanded the Colombian contingent during the Korean War, insists that the armed forces will adhere to their traditional role as "defenders of civilian rule...