Word: soledad
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Because of the time warp of translation, it took three years for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel Cien Anos de Soledad to reach and astound the English- speaking world as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970). That rousing chronicle of a mythical South American town and a family doomed to heroism and folly established its author's international reputation. Among the book's magical properties was the power to transform a once obscure Colombian journalist into the recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. Garcia Marquez, of course, published other works along the way to Stockholm, including three novels...
...letters to a friend printed in the San Francisco Chronicle last week, White pronounced himself in "excellent spirits and health" and proclaimed that despite at tempts by "anti-Dan White factions" to extend his sentence, "in the end everything will turn out just fine." At Soledad Prison, he was housed in protective custody, along with Robert F. Kennedy's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, who became White's friend. On a conjugal visit, his wife conceived their second child, who was born retarded...
...food. A lenient jury bought the line and produced a verdict of voluntary manslaughter rather than murder. Under California's determinant sentencing law, that judgment carried a maximum term of seven years and eight months. With time off for good behavior, that makes White eligible for parole from Soledad prison beginning next Jan. 6, after he will have served five years...
...prison terms was harsh but expected. Sirhan Sirhan, 38, the lone killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, had earlier been scheduled for parole on Sept. 1, 1984. But public outrage prompted an appeal by the Los Angeles district attorney's office, and after a rehearing at Soledad Prison, the board last week took back the parole date. Sirhan will come up for a new review in November...
...Vernet seized them and took one ship with its crew to Buenos Aires for prosecution. There U.S. Consul George Slacum demanded that Vernet be prosecuted for piracy. When the Argentines demurred, the patrolling U.S. Navy corvette Lexington went to wreak vengeance. Commander Silas Duncan attacked Vernet's headquarters at Soledad, spiked all the cannons, blew up all the ammunition, sacked the settlement, and sailed away with seven of Vernet's aides in irons (they were eventually released in Montevideo, but Argentine demands for compensation went on for 53 years...