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Aztec dancer Raul Ruiz, a third-year student at the Medical School, defined the concept behind the festivities in more mystical terms, going back to the idea that the festival blurs the line between life and death...
Still, the anti-U.S. sentiment in Bonn last week wasn't universal. Declared Meg McDonald, Australian Ambassador for the Environment: "We think it's better to do what's realistic... than have unrealistic targets which are never reached." And although Raul Estrada-Oyuela of Argentina, chairman of the Bonn session, criticized the U.S. position as "very modest," he was "impressed by the fact that Clinton chose to make the offer himself. That is encouraging." Estrada-Oyuela warned other representatives against reacting impulsively and said the measures proposed by the U.S. would have to be analyzed carefully before action could...
...another room upstairs, a rebel shot Supreme Court Justice Carlos Giusti Acuna. Giusti died on the way to the hospital of a heart attack. During a fierce fire fight in which Lieut. Raul Jimenez Salazar was killed, another hostage, Agriculture Minister Rodolfo Munante Sanguinetti, had a close call. A guerrilla dashed into the room where he was hiding with several others and raised his rifle. But he did not pull the trigger. "He just left without shooting or lobbing a grenade at us," Munante recalled. "I got the impression the boy suddenly felt bad about what he and the rebels...
...Want to Talk About It (1993), his finest late role. He worked with ambitious auteurs from Altman to Zurlini; he lent his bankability to obscure projects. In his last year he starred with Chiara in Three Lives and Only One Death, an elaborate jape by the Paris-based Chilean Raul Ruiz, and appeared with fellow icon Jeanne Moreau in a sweet vignette--a poignant farewell kiss--in Antonioni's Beyond the Clouds...
...sentence has not yet been handed down, but he is likely to face life imprisonment. Rumors are still flying about the extent to which Garcia Abrego managed to exploit a corrupt Mexican government to build a $2 billion a year drug business. Despite rumored links between Garcia Abrego and Raul Salinas, brother of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas, the trial testimony highlighted only corruption among certain low-level police officials. The DEA believes that Garcia Abrego is behind the transformation of Mexico from a smalltime marijuana supplier to a clearinghouse for huge cocaine shipments. But prosecutors referred to Garcia Abrego...