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...guerrillas have few illusions about maintaining supply lines without U.S. help, and they are eager to impress listeners with their needs. "We know what has been said about private aid to the contras," said a rebel calling himself Renato, who heads a 500-man unit that helps guard the supply line. "But when the American Government was not providing assistance, we suffered. People naturally saw us as losing...
While resumption of U.S. aid allowed the contras to return to the Bocay region, the area has changed greatly through Sandinista resettlement efforts. "Before they took our aid away we had many supporters among the civilian population here," said Renato. "We could walk around unarmed. The people sold us food, and we had many secret couriers. Now the civilians are gone. When the Sandinistas took our people away, we lost an important base of support. We have to walk days and days to find civilians...
VERDI: MACBETH (Philips). Renato Bruson is a driven Scottish thane under Giuseppe Sinopoli's electric leadership...
Verdi: Falstaff (Deutsche Grammophon). Renato Bruson is an autumnal Sir John in Carlo Maria Giulini's bittersweet live recording...
...deep in the town of Ranchos (pop. 2,500), a tidy cluster of one-story colonial Spanish houses around a square lined with whitewashed plátano trees, located about 120 miles southeast of Buenos Aires. The sons of two local families were on garrison duty in the Falklands. Renato E. Riva, editor of the town weekly Here Is Ranchos, said that "everyone knows when the families receive letters or a postcard." Fund raising for the war effort in Ranchos was proceeding welL The local rural agricultural society had collected more than $200,000; a local radio station held...