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...Vargas Llosa lives with his wife and three children, he is not only a cultural celebrity but a man who is expected to have the answers to public questions. This is both the blessing and the burden of many writers in Latin America and Europe, where literature and politics retain close ties. For an author in a poor An dean country with a large uneducated Indian population, the is sues and responsibilities are sharpened. "If you are a writer," says Vargas Llosa, "you are a privileged man in this kind of society." Many of his conservative countrymen have felt that...
While Democratic Senators voted en masse against the Republican tax package, some of them nonetheless supplied the votes to retain its key element, the withholding by the IRS of 10% of all interest and dividends earned by individuals who have savings accounts or own stocks. This withholding would be applied against taxes owed during the year. Pushed hard by Republicans Robert Dole, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Majority Leader Howard Baker as a way to rebut critics who claim that Reagan's tax and spending cuts unfairly hurt the poor, the proposal was strongly opposed by banks...
...Israel exists and fights, not relying on the mercy of its neighbors for its life. And the neoconservatives represent men of wealth and power in this country who likewise seem to have lost any need for mercy. It is a grim view, but Shorris doubts the Jews' ability to retain sensitivity to moral considerations after achieving a degree of material and political success...
...Union urged Iran to make peace with Iraq under some of the terms Iran had demanded but with "modifications." The Soviets even proposed that the two countries join them in establishing an "anti-imperialist front." Had the Soviets brought about a peace agreement, it would have enabled them to retain close relations with both Iran and Iraq, and would have greatly bolstered their position in the region. Khomeini said no. On June 21, he made a speech in which he not only rebuffed Moscow's peacemaking efforts but denounced the whole Soviet role in the Middle East. Said Khomeini...
...Conservative government of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had vowed to retain custody of the final batch of P.O.W.s until Buenos Aires formally admitted defeat in the 74-day war. Argentina refused, insisting instead that Britain had restored colonial rule over the Falklands. But in a message sent to Whitehall through the Swiss embassy in Buenos Aires, and relayed to London through the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Bern, Argentine Foreign Minister Juan Ramón Aguirre Lanari admitted that .here was a "de facto cessation of hostilities." The Thatcher government, faced with having to move the prisoners 8,000 miles...