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Allende, a former journalist, has even scored a success in her native Chile, despite the fact that the present government came to power after the 1973 assassination of her uncle, Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens. Although the book is sympathetic to the dead leader, Chile's ruling junta has permitted the novel to pass through its stringent censorship...
Political undertones notwithstanding, The House of the Spirits is essentially a family saga encompassing four generations. The country is unnamed, though the character called the Candidate and later the President is manifestly Salvador Allende. Similarly, the Poet, whose verse everyone in the book seems to have memorized, is clearly Chile's late Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. Ghostly happenings are commonplace in the great house of the "spirits" belonging to the Truebas. Eccentrics abound in that household. Rosa the Beautiful, for example, possesses a head of green hair that hangs "like a botanical mantle" down to her waist. Nicolas Trueba moves...
...first meeting in the town of La Palma last October was called a historic step toward peace in El Salvador. The second public session, in the village of Ayagualo in November, was considered a major disappointment. Since then, Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte has said little about peace talks between his government and the Marxist-led guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. But last week Duarte casually told journalists that his government was taking cautious steps to resume the stalled dialogue...
FOOTNOTE: *The Capa medal is named for a LIFE photographer killed in Indochina in 1954. Rebbot was fatally wounded in El Salvador on a 1981 assignment for Newsweek...
...protest to which many have devoted considerable time and deeply felt emotion. But aren't most of us just using divestment to make us feel good for a little while? Four years ago I stood at the base of Widener Library's steps listening prayerfully to speeches about El Salvador. After a while all of us in the audience lit our short white candles and marched around the Yard with our arms linked, chanting "One, two, three, four: U.S. out of El Salvador!" Four years later, the chants rhyme 'Bok" and "racist stock," we're still in El Salvador...