Word: uruguayan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Married Man coasts over this pothole in its plot because of its cushion of intelligence and moral fastidiousness. Author Read is best known in the U.S. as the author of Alive, a nonfiction account of how some Uruguayan survivors of a plane crash in the Andes resorted to cannibalism to survive; his six previous novels, far less sensational, deserve more readers than they have received, and his latest may be his best. No one now writing has achieved quite the same equipoise between malaise and morality, ideas and emotions. In this tale of human imperfectibility, the devil gets...
...then suggests that the CIA could stop it. White House Aide Robin Warren is ordered by the President to see what the CIA can do. It, of course, suggests a coup. Frankling gets drunk on his yacht and tells Warren to give the CIA a green light. Alas, the Uruguayan junta learns of the caper. In the international uproar, the President denies ever knowing of such a scheme. Poor Warren then pulls a John Dean. He tells the world that Frankling is lying. Why take on the President? "I was afraid of getting caught in the lies . . . No high-mindedness...
...over Colorado-based Holly Sugar Corp. in 1967, the Government indicted Kenneally's partner in the scheme for violating stock-purchase margin requirements and sent him to jail. Kenneally was named as an unindicted coconspirator. ISC had acquired $1 million worth of Holly's stock through a Uruguayan brokerage firm to avoid the margin rules, and then dumped its shares, for a $1.6 million profit, after dropping the takeover...
...Angolans, Russians, Mexicans, Britons, Vietnamese and even a 400-member U.S. delegation trooped into Havana for singing, dancing, stadium pageantry, rap sessions and some frolicking on Cuba's beaches, they faced an additional event: the Youth Accuses Imperialism International Tribunal. A panel of eight "judges," headed by Uruguayan Physician Hugo Villar, heard scores of witnesses reel off accusations-some old, some true, many distorted or false-against the CIA. One star witness was Philip Agee, a former CIA agent now turned professional anti-agency muckraker. Other witnesses related details of a 1962 CIA poisoning scheme (during a time, admittedly...
Mercedes Olivera, renowned Uruguayan harpsichordist, performs baroque works for that instrument in a concert tonight; Bach, Scarlatti and Rameau will be featured in the program. Go to Holmes Living Room, North House, for the free performance at 8. If you're still thirsting for more of the baroque and the beyond, Musica Sacra, conducted by Lenora McCroskey, plays works of Josquin, Battishill and others from the dark, dark ages. Also included are Brahms's Songs, Opus 62. The concert takes place Friday evening at Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave., at 8:30. There is a $1.50 contribution which might...