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...Central American book will add coverage of El Salvador and Panama and expand that on Costa Rica, Fitzpatrick said...
Before that comes a sketch of a youngish architect, Kay Fischer, who is trying to launch a career in Los Angeles in 1936. She meets a man named Salvador Carriscant, who claims to be her father, and eventually she accompanies him to Lisbon, where he promises to substantiate his story. That story is what follows. Why introduce it in such a distracting way? Maybe the author indulged in a little showboating. He is an expert mimic of the Hollywood hardboiled school, typified by Raymond Chandler. Good nostalgic fun, but Boyd shares Chandler's awkwardness in writing from a woman...
Among the front-running Cardinals from this camp are the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Bernardin Gantin, 72, of the West African nation of Benin, and Lucas Moreira Neves, 69, a descendant of slaves and Archbishop of Salvador in Brazil. The name most frequently invoked, however, is that of Francis Cardinal Arinze, the charming and efficient Archbishop from Nigeria who heads the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue. A convert at the age of nine from the animist faith of the Igbo tribe, Arinze, now 62, enjoys robust health (he is an avid tennis player) and almost legendary status...
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...forbidden airline companies from nine countries to fly into or out of the U.S., because the FAA says they do not maintain internationally recognized aviation safety standards. The neglectful nine: Belize, the Dominican Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Zaire. In addition, airlines from Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Netherlands Antilles are on the FAA's watch list. The crackdown on foreign air carriers is a result of the 1990 crash in New York of a Columbian Avianca airliner that had run out of fuel...