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...struggle between family members who supported the new Sandinista government and those critical of its Marxist-Leninist tendencies. The conservatives won, and Chamorro's brother Xavier, editor of La Prensa, left to form his own newspaper, taking most of the staff with him. Today Chamorro's widow, his brothers and sisters and four children are arrayed in almost equal numbers on opposing sides of the country's political battleground...
...women in the family are also sharply divided in their political loyalties. Pedro Chamorro's widow Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, 54, served briefly in the first five-member junta after the revolution. The appointment was primarily symbolic, to honor her slain husband, and after a few months she resigned for reasons of health. She now openly opposes the Sandinistas. Chamorro's daughter Christiana, 31, also became disenchanted with the Sandinistas and left her civil service job in the press office of the Council of State two years after the Sandinistas came to power. Daughter Claudia, 30, an artist...
...They reveal an astonishing life. A noblewoman of beauty and wealth, Mme. de Sévigné was widowed at 25, when her libertine husband died in a duel over a courtesan. A crush of suitors quickly moved in: Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's ill-fated superintendent of finance; Marshal de Turenne, the outstanding military hero of the era; Prince Armand de Bourbon, a member of the royal family. The widow refused them all. Her deepest affections were held in reserve for her daughter. The occasion for most of the Sévigné letters was the daughter...
...tightened control over both the availability of government documents to the public--by changing the criteria for classification--and over the type and amount of foreign information which is allowed to enter the country. They have categorized more films as "political propaganda" and prevented foreign speakers--visitors like the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende and Reverend Ian Paisley and Owen Carron, spokesmen for respectively the radical Protestant and Roman Catholic groups in Northern Ireland--with anti-American views from accepting invitations to speak at American universities. And The New York Times reported several weeks ago on yet one more...
...connections with the purged radical faction, the Gang of Four; of lung cancer; in Peking. A worldly, seasoned diplomat and close ally of the late Premier Chou Enlai, Guanhua, was known for his wide-ranging intelligence and acerbic wit. Because of his ties with Mao Tse-tung's widow, Gang of Four Leader Jiang Qing, Guanhua became one of the highest-ranking officials sidelined by the new government of pragmatists that rose to power after Mao's death...