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...even refused to let Andorra's 16-man militia fire a welcoming fusillade. The hundreds of stores that have transformed Andorra from a smugglers' paradise into Europe's largest duty-free shopping center were shuttered; the Tricolor was hoisted over the village-capital of Andorra la Vella. De Gaulle's aides reminded anyone who cared to listen that le grand Charles was, after all, the most important visitor to Andorra since his namesake Charlemagne passed through eleven centuries ago on his way back from battling the Moors...
...happens, the labor of love is a forgery. As it further happens, the forgery is historical fact: in the 18th century a priest named Giuseppe Vella actually perpetrated a fraudulent history of Sicily under Norman rule and briefly imposed his imposture on the credulous court of Naples. In this shrewd, satiric novel about Vella and his villainy, Sicily's Leonardo Sciascia hilariously spoofs impostors and imposture and etches a bitter likeness of sunny Sicily's decadent nobility...
More than dinners and sinecures, Giuseppe needs an audience to applaud his artistry. In a moment of pride, he confesses all to his bishop-and is immensely gratified by the sensation he creates. At the last, touched (as the real Vella was not) by considerations of justice and truth, he placidly accepts imprisonment...
Robert Salau was born about 42 years ago on densely wooded Vella Lavella, some 200 miles northwest of Guadalcanal in the Solomons group. His mother had been captured by his father's head-hunting tribe in a raid on another island. ("My people heathen, you know-killing one another.") When the Adventists set up a school in the beach village, young Salau ran away from home to join, and eventually became a pastor. Now, he estimates he has had a hand, in converting some 2,000 natives in the Pacific islands. Says Salau...
Professional Pride. In Manhattan, contrite Kibitzer Salvator Coliarono told the judge that Card-Player Francisco Vella was well justified in shooting him in the thigh...