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...black-tie banquet, but an outdoor barbecue lunch. In Colombia, Reagan's limousine ride to the presidential palace was a few blocks, hardly a motorcade at all. On Saturday in Honduras, Reagan's final, fleeting stop, he only visited the air force base in San Pedro Sula...
BORN. To Fernando Valenzuela, 21, Los Angeles Dodgers pitching marvel, and,Linda Valenzuela-Burgos, 21, a former schoolteacher: their first child, a son; in San Pedro, Calif. Name: Fernando Jr. Weight...
...week, Hondurans anxiously watched the stalemate in the northern industrial town of San Pedro Sula There, in the local Chamber of Commerce auditorium, leftist guerrillas held hostage scores of the country's leading businessmen and three top government officials. Outside, the army stood guard holding its fire, but working on the guerrillas' nerves during the long nights by banging garbage-can lids and throwing stones on the auditorium's tin roof. Whether they willed it or not, Hondurans were being drawn more deeply into the political turmoil that plagues so many countries in Central America...
...names creep into his serials, and characters from one story appear in the plots of others. This madness of art stands in pathetic contrast to the highly disciplined complexity of the novel. To Mario, who edits news bulletins at the radio station and writes arty stories on the side, Pedro Camacho is a cultural irony: "How could he be, at one and the same time, a parody of the writer and the only person in Peru who, by virtue of the time he devoted to his craft and the works he produced, was worthy of that name? Were all those...
...Aunt Julia and I watch in openmouthed amazement, by changing props and costumes Pedro Camacho transformed himself [into] an old lady, a beggar, a bigot, a cardinal... During this series of lightning-quick changes he kept talking, in a fervent tone of voice. 'And why shouldn't I have the right to become one with characters of my own creation, to resemble them? Who is there to stop me from having their noses, their hair, their frock coats as I describe them?' he said, exchanging a biretta for a meerschaum, the meerschaum for a duster...