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...lurches, sometimes comically, toward a classic Greene ending, which combines plausible irony with amazing grace. And the Captain is a typical Greene figure: a man of several names and many shadowy occupations and absences. His enemies are, of course, corrupt officialdom and bourgeois smugness. His story is told by Victor, the boy he says he won at backgammon, or maybe chess -- the tale shifts with the passing years. Along with the wraithlike woman who is the Captain's unlikely grand passion, Victor is the chief beneficiary of a shifty, sometimes shiftless man's redeeming devotion. He is also...
HERE in Lima it is still easy to find pirated tapes of Chilean folksinger Victor Jara. Author of lyrics like "Liberate our people from the dominion of the exploiter," he was one of the thousands forced by the Chilean army into the Santiago soccer stadium during the 1973 overthrow of Socialist Salvador Allende. In the stadium with his guitar, Jara began to sing some of his most popular songs; the waiting crowd joined in. The soldiers grabbed him, pulled away his guitar, and chopped off his hands--challenging him to "Try playing now" before killing him. The crowd watched, then...
...just before the plebiscite ended in three deaths and 846 arrests; a Chilean music festival three months ago banned a Peruvian singer whose song, "Don't Make Love to Me" had a chorus of "No, no, no, no, no." In Peru--where lack of censorship allows the sale of Victor Jara's music--Chile's neighbors and exiles voted with speeches, conferences, and wishes. They, for now, are safe. But in Chile, with Pinochet conscious of the strong opposition, terror grows...
...last summer's presidential campaign still crowd the walls, elections are invested with fewer moral, if not legal, expectations. Perhaps the single most striking statement to emerge during the campaign was the call by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and the eventual victor, for honest voting and an honest count. Not exactly the kind of statement that would make people sit up and rub their eyes during an American campaign. Americans expect it; Mexicans are surprised...
Core War was the brainstorm of three Bell Labs programmers then in their early 20s: H. Douglas McIlroy, Victor Vysottsky and Robert Morris. Like Von Neumann, they recognized that computers were vulnerable to a peculiar kind of self-destruction. The machines employed the same "core" memory to store both the data used by programs and the instructions for running those programs. With subtle changes in its coding, a program designed to consume data could be made instead to consume programs...