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...hall at least, the action revolves around a purpoted nuclear attack, a pre attack evacuation and life in a bomb shelter. But at its worst Out Out becomes precious, a manipulative revival-house sing along, a punked-out version of Hair or Godspell brimming with those works' combination of rebel-with a cause naivete and we have seen the enemy and he lives in suburbia" pseudo-sophistication...
...gain perspective on Central America, the tour members conferred with Mexico City Bureau Chief James Willwerth, whose responsibilities extend to the entire isthmus. They also met with representatives of Central America's rebel movements: an anti-Sandinista leader from Nicaragua, a leftist opposition spokesman from Guatemala, and a dedicated, intelligent advocate for the Salvadoran insurgents, Rubén Zamora. While in Panama, the party was briefed by Lieut. General Wallace H. Nutting, head of the U.S. Southern Command. A visit to the Canal was especially meaningful for one Newstour participant, Veteran Negotiator Sol Linowitz, who helped accomplish the return...
...another murky incident unfolded when the Sandinistas revealed the mysterious suicide in Nicaragua of one of El Salvador's most important guerrilla leaders, Salvador Cayetano Carpio, 63. Cayetano Carpio was the head of the rebel faction known as the Popular Forces of Liberation, the most determinedly Marxist-Leninist of the country's guerrilla organizations. According to the Sandinistas, he took his own life on April 12, after the equally mysterious assassination in Nicaragua a week earlier of his No. 2 guerrilla commander, Melida Anaya Montes, better known as Ana Maria. The Nicaraguans announced the arrest of five other...
...surprisingly. The Rebel Angels focuses mostly on the tension between the cerebral and spiritual, the practical and intellectual in modern life. It is no accident that by the end Maria has married a young financier named Arthur Cornish; the intellectual community has come to respect him, recognizing that his business-like attitude and practicality are supported by sensitivity, culture and a freshness of perception. His liking for orthodoxy, for example, is in fact not a cheap attempt at culture but a bias which he is capable of defending intellectually...
After fighting broke out in El Salvador, a group of West European Socialists dodged bullets to meet with leftist rebel leaders. During the siege of Beirut, a delegation of Social Democrats picked its way through rubble to confer with Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat. When they are not touring global hot spots, representatives of the Socialist International, the umbrella organization for 49 Social Democratic parties in Europe, Asia and the Americas, meet frequently to make pronouncements that, they hope, will be heeded by an estimated 15 million party members worldwide...