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...borders. In Ecuador last week, army officers ordered President Carlos Julio Arosemena to break relations with Castro's Cuba, touching off a crisis in which Aro-semena's entire Cabinet resigned. In Peru, where a leader of Latin America's non-Communist left, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, is running strong for next June's presidential elections, the Peruvian army promised to block his presidency. "Haya," said a general, "will not set foot in the presidential palace." One Latin American who acted to curb the infection was Venezuela's President...
...absurd, negative, stupid policy. Let there be an end to all speakers of garbage." Cuba's Prime Minister made it clear that he still considers himself a Communist: "The revolution is absolutely defined as Marxist-Leninist." But he was the man in charge, and his brother Raúl from now on was Vice Premier...
...same al bum, which also includes sketches for the Salon of 1804. There he came upon the Frick's David under "Painting No. 114." But the legend in the catalogue read: "Mme. Davin-Mirvault, portrait of Signor Bruni, composer, former conductor of the orchestra at the Opéra-Buffa...
...recent foreign ministers' meeting at Punta del Este, Cuban delegates hinted that their country will soon be run by a "politbuiro." Besides the original triumvirate of Fidel Castro, Brother Raúl and Che Guevara, these Reds are favorite candidates for the "collective leadership...
...fans are wary of opera sung in foreign tongues: German, in particular, they think, is a language that sits uneasily in the throat. Nevertheless, when Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 46, was lured to Paris to make a double debut-as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the Paris Opéra, and as the Countess in Capriccio at the Opéra Comique-both productions were cast in the original German. In Soprano Schwarzkopf's case, the language might also have served as a reminder of her early career as a leader of a Nazi studentbund and a wartime favorite...