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...novel is a bedazzlement of popular entertainment and what, after more than 50 resistant years, is still called experimental writing. Its author, Mario Vargas Llosa, 45, is a versatile Peruvian with a growing international reputation. His previous novels include The Time of the Hero, The Green House and Conversation in the Cathedral. The War of the End of the World, an untranslated novel of a 19th century peasant uprising in Brazil, is currently a bestseller in Spain and South America. His plays, criticism and topical articles appear regularly, and he recently wrote about the World Cup soccer matches for Barcelona...
...Argentine flyers away from the British fleet. There had even been speculation that the air force had been too badly crippled by losses to re-enter the fray. The British claimed to have downed about 70 aircraft. But according to U.S. sources, the Argentines had also received reinforcements: ten Peruvian Mirages flown from Lima early last week...
...Originally, there were believed to be only six in the country's arsenal, and four have already been fired. Only a few other countries in the world might have Exocets to sell. Among them: Iraq, Pakistan, South Africa and Peru. The latter has already offered Argentina military support. A Peruvian navy vessel, attempting to take delivery of eight Exocets in France two weeks ago, was informed by French officials that the missiles were unavailable for "technical reasons." France has embargoed sales of the missile to Argentina...
Where does that leave Cannes the movie festival? Still exciting after all these years. Fitzcarraldo, which stars Klaus Kinski as an Irish rubber baron who leaves his mistress, played by Claudia Cardinale, is a mystical trek through the Peruvian jungle that took four calamitous years out of Director Herzog's life and won him the best director prize. The official competition also boasted new films from Michelangelo Antonioni, Jerzy Sko-limowski and Jean-Luc Godard. Antonioni's Identification of a Woman is hypnotic and erotic, and it earned him the festival's special 35th-anniversary citation...
Once talks began in earnest, the Secretary-General met separately each day with Parsons and Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Enrique Ros in his 38th-floor U.N. suite. As time went on, the Peruvian-born diplomat played an increasingly active part, sometimes suggesting directly ideas of his own. He remained pleasant and courteous, but the strain began to show: his color was gray, his eyes were hollow behind his glasses, and he stooped as he walked...