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...week, Hondurans anxiously watched the stalemate in the northern industrial town of San Pedro Sula There, in the local Chamber of Commerce auditorium, leftist guerrillas held hostage scores of the country's leading businessmen and three top government officials. Outside, the army stood guard holding its fire, but working on the guerrillas' nerves during the long nights by banging garbage-can lids and throwing stones on the auditorium's tin roof. Whether they willed it or not, Hondurans were being drawn more deeply into the political turmoil that plagues so many countries in Central America...
...fire began in the fume hood of a fifth-floor research lab and burned for several minutes only inches away from several cylinders of toxic gases until Sula Oguz a graduate student working in the next room, discovered...
...Black girls with kinky hair and dark skin were treated. Her ghosts agitated her with visions of a softer feminity than the one she seemed destined to live, while at the same time they haunted her rapist father with clues to her extreme pathos. From this story, and from Sula, where ghosts exist but are still subordinated by present reality, Morrison leaped to a world where spirits have full control over reality in the mythical novel Song of Solomon...
...exploration of culture, a refinement of craft and finally a wider vision of the world. But the important thing, says Morrison, is not to explain but "to bear witness, to record." The author, who is also an editor at Random House, did this in The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973), novels that dealt with blacks in the Middle West, where the author was born...
Because of Hurricane Laura, Finch's plane was diverted from Tegucigalpa, the capital, to San Pedro Sula. No matter. Honduran President RamÓn Ernesto Cruz, accompanied by his entire Cabinet and several cases of vintage champagne, hurried to Honduras' second city to meet Finch there. During a two-hour layover, the reason for all the hospitality became clear. Finch and Cruz signed an agreement under which Washington will cede to Honduras two Caribbean islands that have been U.S. possessions for more than a century...