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...issue is the way in which Brazilians will take the next step in their country's cautious return to democracy after two decades of military rule: the election of a successor to President João Figueiredo, 66, a retired general whose six-year term expires in March 1985. The government has decided that the choice will be made next January by a 686-member electoral college. But according to the latest polls, 80% of Brazil's voters want a direct say in choosing their next leader. The public mood also reflects a lack of confidence...
...commanding figures of Russian exile literature, Andrei Sinyavsky, 58, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 65, have chosen to remain relatively isolated in the West. Following a six-year sentence in the Gulag for publishing his work abroad, Sinyavsky moved to France in 1973 and quickly became a leader in émigré literary and political life. A Paris resident for more than a decade, Sinyavsky has not felt the need to learn French. Though he has written two remarkable phantasmagorical novels and innumerable articles while in exile, hardly any of Sinyavsky's writings have appeared in English since A Voice from...
...ones who decide." El Lider uttered those words shortly before he died. In a sense, the Argentine people picked Peron's successor last week. Peronists, Radicals and generals alike, they will now decide whether Raul Alfonsin becomes the first elected President since Juan Peron to serve a full six-year term. -By James Kelly...
...least one White House official shared the concerns of the press. He was Les Janka, 43, a six-year veteran of the National Security Council staff who last summer became President Reagan's deputy press secretary for foreign affairs. Like his boss, Press Secretary Larry Speakes, Janka had not been told in advance about the Grenada operation; thus when White House correspondents asked them about rumors of an impending invasion, they both denied the story. Janka drafted a candid letter of resignation, but before he could send it, White House officials accused him of telling the Washington Post that...
During the 1920s, a spendthrift charmer named Tom Mount lived with (and on) Hobson for five years while remaining married to another woman. Hobson endured two abortions, one without anesthesia, before Mount went off to Tahiti to write. A six-year marriage to well-heeled Publisher Thayer Hobson proved more placid, until he stunned her one evening by announcing over the demitasse that he was leaving her for another woman. Looking back on that divorce, what makes her "boil with fury" is the thought that "any woman (most women?) should feel her life exploded into shreds and shards because...