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Barbed Wire. The fans attending the boxing match in a Cali bull ring also went wild when U.S. Middleweight Reginald Jones was awarded a close decision over Colombia's Bonifacio Avila Jones and his handlers had to be escorted out of the arena under a barrage of rocks and bottles. Noting the crowd's partisan cheering throughout the games, U.S. Decathlon Star Russ Hodge said: "They don't like us. Even in Russia they gave us better applause than they do here for a good performance...
...Spain. Those in Rio Muni want independence, but they also hope to keep the $7,300,000 a year in export subsidies and $670,000 a year in budget support that Spain now provides. "Guineans do not want their independence to resemble a bottle of euphoria," says champagne that Bonifacio Ondó evaporates in Edu, 48, Prime Minister of Spanish Guinea and the man most likely to lead the new nation...
Jerks & Gangsters. Indeed, from Cape Corse to the Strait of Bonifacio, the 114-mile-long island, which lies just 105 miles southeast of Nice, is little more than scenery. The snow-topped mountainous spine of Corsica is traversed only by a Toonerville-style railroad, the Micheline, which looks out on ruined citadels, deserted villages and scarred forests. Once rich in timber (pine, chestnut, cork trees), Corsica has been hard-hit by forest fires. Population has drained from 300,000 in the 1870s to 170,000 today. Ajaccio, the capital, is a cluster of quaint but quaking buildings, though a scattering...
...beginning of the campaign, Quadros fluttered along with little following and no real backing. His old ally and successor, S?o Paulo's incumbent Governor Carvalho Pinto, had already thrown his support to José Bonifacio Nogueira, 39, the state's aristocratic agriculture secretary, and had lined up a formidable coalition including the National Democratic Union and Christian Democrats, two parties that in the past had backed Quadros. President Jo?o ("Jango") Goulart's Labor Party organization in S?o Paulo was also behind Bonifacio, although Goulart himself has been silent. Bonifacio is running on Governor Carvalho Pinto's impressive record...
...Nabucco failed at its premiere at La Scala in 1842, chances are that Verdi's career would have failed with it. His first opera, Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, had been only a mild success, and the second, Un Giorno di Regno, had been hissed offstage by the opening-night audience. A year before he started work on Nabucco, Verdi had seen his two children and his wife die within 21 months of one another. Insisting that he would never write another opera, Verdi was drawn to Nabucco in spite of himself. After he reluctantly agreed to read...