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...TRIAL BEGINS (128 pp.)-Abram Tertz, translated by Max Hayward-Pantheon...
BORN FREE (220 pp.)-Joy Adamson -Pantheon...
...LEOPARD (319 pp.)-Giuseppe di Lampedusa-Pantheon...
True, in 1909 a resolution of the federal Senate pronounced Garcia an "Illustrious Hero of the War of Independence" and decreed that his remains be transferred from the cemetery to the Pantheon of Heroes in Caracas, resting place of Bolivar and the rest of Venezuela's great. In preparation, the people of Cumana put the bones in a small, carved mahogany urn. But it took five years for officials in Caracas to dispatch the warship Miranda to Cumana to get the urn, and then the Miranda was diverted instead to another part of the country to quell a rebellion...
...while the church was rebuilt, and still preserves it carefully in a belltower storage room, among tattered and dusty saints and icons. Last week Interior Minister Luis Augusto Dubuc promised Sucre that General Garcia's remains this year will at last find their ultimate resting place in the Pantheon, as Venezuela marks the 150th anniversary of its independence...