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Chilean judge Mario Carroza later authorized an official investigation into cause of death. To think that I do not have her. But night comes and starts to sing to me. In retrospect at least his rejection of the path of the maestro, the critic, the rationalist was carefully calculated. In his speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize, Neruda noted that there arises an insight which the poet must learn through other people. as though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul. We look at the object, handle it, turn it around, all the sides are examined with love, care, attention. Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet who lived from 1904-1973, and his first wife did not speak his native language of Spanish. Later years of Pablo Neruda. But death also goes through the world dressed as a broom,lapping the floor, looking for dead bodies,death is inside the broom,the broom is the tongue of death looking for corpses,it is the needle of death looking for thread. Reyes first revealed the information to the Spanish news agency EFE earlier Monday. Who Was Pablo Neruda? pale worms in the capitalist And his change of stance with the tides of time may not always be perfectly effected. There is no insurmountable solitude. Heres why there are so many questions around his death. Pablo Neruda's exile marked one of the 20th century's greatest literary chase scenes, and the Cold War's first global manhunt. JUAN GONZLEZ: in terms of the findings that the Nobel laureate, Neruda, did not die of cancer in 1973 as stated on his death certificate. and makes a son leap in the bottom of the earth. The moon turns its clockwork dream. Neruda died aged 69 in Santiago in 1973, just days after a military coup had overthrown the leftist government of Salvador Allende. But death also goes through the world dressed as a broom. The night wind whirls in the sky and sings. The panel handed its findings to the court and was asked to try to determine the origin of the bacteria. Request a transcript Monica Sok is on the pod! I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her. The lab tests concluded that the toxin was administered when the poet was alive, Reyes said. Neruda was born Neftalf Ricardo Reyes y Basualto in 1904 in Parral, central Chile, and he died in 1973, shortly after the coup that ousted Salvador Allende. An outspoken communist, he supported Salvador Allende, Chiles leftist president from 1970 to 1973, and worked in his administration. I shall go on living. This became even truer when Chilean democracy was restored in 1990 and my fellow citizens had to retrieve from sand dunes and caverns and pits so many remnants of men and women who really had been slaughtered by the state. He abandoned his family, and Malva died at the age of 8 in Nazi-occupied Holland. Martnez spoke to AP by phone in 2017, a few days before his death. Neruda's death echoed over the world, as he was already a legend in life. As the outrages pile up, public opinion becomes exhausted. I kissed her again and again under the endless sky. Born Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto, Neruda adopted the pseudonym under which he would become famous while still in his early teens. After a decade-long investigation, a team of forensic experts issued their final report on the exhumed remains of the acclaimed Chilean poet. The poem explores the psychic agony of lost love and its accompanying guilt and suffering, conjured in the imagery of savage eroticism, alienation, and loss of self-identity. Here I love you. Neruda was the son of Jos del Carmen Reyes, a railway worker, and Rosa Basoalto. Neruda began to try to speak to everyday people simply and clearly, on a level that anyone could understand. Poor health soon forced the poet to resign his post, however, and he returned to Chile, where he died in 1973only days after a right-wing military coup killed Allende and seized power. His poetry had to shift outwardly; it had to act. the rain does not wipe it off the roads. The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda during a visit to New York in 1966. In Salvador, Death (excerpt . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Neruda's life was dominated by poetry, politics, diplomacy and temporary exile from his native Chile. Furrowed motherland, I swear that in your ashesyou will be born like a flower of eternal waterI swear that from your mouth of thirst will come to the airthe petals of bread, the spiltinaugurated flower. And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture. But it is also possible that the knowledge that he was most likely assassinated might inspire some readers to revisit him, recognize his imperfections, and still come to appreciate those stanzas of his that allow us to become more human. There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the heart moving through a tunnel, in it darkness, darkness, darkness, like a shipwreck we die going into ourselves, as though we were drowning inside our hearts, as though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul. A poet filled with mysterious voices that fortunately he himself does not know how to decipher. With its emphasis on despair and the lack of adequate answers to mankinds problems,Residencia en la tierrain some ways foreshadowed the post-World War II philosophy of existentialism. Commenting onPassions and Impressions,a posthumous collection of Nerudas prose poems, political and literary essays, lectures, and newspaper articles, Mark Abley wrote inMacleans, No matter what occasion provoked these pieces, his rich, tireless voice echoes with inimitable force. As Neruda eschewed literary criticism, many critics found in him a lack of rationalism. For Neruda food and other pleasures are our birthrightnot as gifts from the earth or heaven but as the products of human labor. According to Bogen,Canto generaldraws its strength from a commitment to nameless workersthe men of the salt mines, the builders of Macchu Picchuand the fundamental value of their labor. Commenting onCanto generalinBooks Abroad,Jaime Alazraki remarked, Neruda is not merely chronicling historical events. Later that year, however, Neruda returned to political activism, writing letters in support of striking workers and criticizing Chilean President Videla. Justice for Pablo Neruda is justice for Chile. My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights. growing in the damp air like tears of rain. According to the prizes webpage, he produced a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continents destiny and dreams.. As for Neruda himself, the reports of assassination come at a peculiar moment of his afterlife following a series of terrible disclosures. when you surrender, you stretch out like the world. as though we were drowning inside our hearts. Earlier that day, he had called his wife saying he was feeling ill after receiving some form of medication. It is the needle of death looking for the thread. The blood of dead campesinos We Go Way Back: 25 of the Best Historical Fiction Books of the Past 10 Years, The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists, New Releases Tuesday: The Best Books Out This Week, 11 of the Best Shnen Manga to Read in 2023. On Wednesday, The New York Times reviewed the summary of findings compiled by international forensic experts who had . Pablo Neruda. Already a legend in life, Neruda's death reverberated around the world. Franny and Danez get their hands dirty with the inimitable Aracelis Girmay! Far away the sea sounds and resounds. At this time, Nerudas work began to move away from the highly political stance it had taken during the 1930s. He concentrated on elements of peoples lives common to all people at all times. Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars, While cancer was reported as the cause of his death, many speculate that he may have been murdered . Terra residenciamust, therefore, be considered in this light, from the dual perspective of art and society, poetry and politics. Neruda travelled extensively in the Far East over the next few years, Gallagher continued, and it was during this period that he wrote his first really splendid book of poems,Residencia en la tierra,a book ultimately published in two parts, in 1933 and 1935. Neruda added a third part,Tercera residencia,in 1947. The prolific and wonderful poet talks about the childhood joy of dirt, parenting in a pandemic, how she Frameworks for introducing poetry to the elementary classroom. This work quickly marked Neruda as an important Chilean poet. She loved me, sometimes I loved her too. Regardless, Neruda expresses two different concepts of our demise, portraying the inevitability and inescapability of death, while questioning the true meaning of life. in the black blankets, and suddenly breathes out: it blows out a mournful sound that swells the sheets. I see myself forgotten like those old anchors. As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her. And night invaded me with her powerful army. Even then there were rumors that he had been killed by an agent of General Augusto Pinochets secret police, but I dismissed them over the years as unfounded, because, I asked myself, why would the military go to the trouble of assassinating someone who was already dying? And its clothes ring out, silent like a tree. Who hears the regrets Neruda died at age 69 on Sept. 23, 1973, just two weeks after a military coup toppled the leftist government of Salvador Allende. Workers place a portrait of Chile's late Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda with former President Salvador Allende at Neruda's tomb after he was reburied on Isla Negra, Chile, April 26, 2016 . Summer pain me; because of you, I again Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Jack Nicas covers Chile for The New York Times. According to Nerudas family, a new forensics report conducted by a group of international experts has concluded that he was poisoned while already gravely illa victim, most probably, of the Chilean military he had politically opposed. Although, as Bizzarro noted, In [theCanto general], Neruda was to reflect some of the [Communist] partys basic ideological tenets, the work itself is far more than propaganda. But his dramatic and rhetorical skills, better his ability to speak out of his circumstances, was consummate. He recalled that on Neruda's instructions, on Sunday, Sept. 23, the poet's wife, Matilde Urrutia, and he were at the mansion to pick up the suitcases that would be taken to Mexico the following day. He came to believe that the work of art and the statement of thoughtwhen these are responsible human actions, rooted in human needare inseparable from historical and political context, reported Salvatore Bizzarro inPablo Neruda: All Poets the Poet. But a day before his planned departure, he was taken by ambulance to a clinic in Chile's capital of Santiago where he had been treated for cancer and other ailments. But at that time they said they had not determined what did kill Neruda. (Neruda had been the presidential candidate for the communist party in 1969 but bowed out to support the candidacy of Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until the 1973 coup.) David Shook responds to a poem by Pablo Neruda with his own poem set in present-day Middle East. And now, six years lateroh how slowly the wheels of justice moveNerudas nephew says he has seen the report of a panel of experts from Canada, Denmark, and Chile who have concluded that Nerudas death can be attributed to Clostridium botulinumthe same toxin that causes botulismthat may have indeed been injected into his body. Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.' Thank you for signing up! Like falling from the skin to the soul. In Salvador, death still patrols. During his lifetime, Mr. Neruda occupied several diplomatic positions in countries including Argentina, Mexico, Spain and France. For starters, as the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup approaches, the apparent manner of the poets death suggests once again what Pinochet and his civilian accomplices were capable of, reminding Chileans and so many others around the world of the atrocities of a perverse dictatorship, making it more difficult, as conservatives in Chile would like, to whitewash the past and erase their own sins. Neruda took this established mode of comparison and raised it to a cosmic level, making woman into a veritable force of the universe. According to the official version, Neruda - who made his name as a young poet with the collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair - died from prostate cancer and malnutrition on 23 September 1973, just 12 days after the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected socialist government of his friend, President Salvador . Profanity : Our optional filter replaced words with *** on this page , by owner. Love is so short, forgetting is so long. His death had been attributed to prostate cancer. I'm not sure, I understand only a little, I can hardly see. While the more recent attack on the World Trade Centre was a horrific tragedy and it has shaped many government and public . Fifty years on, the true cause of death of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, in the wake of the countrys 1973 coup dtat, has remained in doubt across the world. lapping the floor, looking for dead bodies. And he died just a couple of weeks after the coup Neruda returned to Chile from exile in 1953, and, said Duran and Safir, spent the last 20 years of his life producing some of the finest love poetry inOne Hundred Love Sonnetsand parts ofExtravagariaandLa Barcarola;he produced Nature poetry that continued the movement toward close examination, almost still shots of every aspect of the external world, in the odes ofNavegaciones y regresos,inThe Stones of Chile,inThe Art of Birds,inUna Casa en la arenaand inStones of the Sky. cadavers in fashion, Neruda, who was 69 and suffering from prostate cancer, died in the chaos that followed Chile's Sept. 11, 1973, coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende and put Gen. Augusto Pinochet in power. Drowsing in the parks, the white statues that My voice searched the wind to touch her ear. Neruda was reburied in his favorite home overlooking the Pacific Coast last year. SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) Forensic experts have determined that Chilean poet Pablo Neruda died of poisoning nearly 50 years ago, a family member of the Nobel Prize winner said Monday. Used with permission. That is like a wound; if you touch me, you will "No writer of world renown is perhaps so little known to North Americans as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda," observed New York Times Book Review critic Selden Rodman. High, high stars. Alone. The diplomat lost his post because of his support of the Spanish Republic, which was dissolved after surrendering to the Nationalists of Gen. Francisco Franco. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/world/americas/pablo-neruda-death-mystery.html. September 11 was the anniversary of a violent event which brought about the modern world: the CIA-backed overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende in 1973. In the early 1930s, Neruda married a Dutch woman, Maryka Antonieta Hagenaar, who gave birth in 1934 in Madrid to a daughter, Malva Marina. The following excerpts of Neruda's most famous poems are emblematic of his ability to express deep passion and sensuality and find vibrant life and majesty in mundane foods like tomatoes. While in Santiago, Neruda completed one of his most critically acclaimed and original works, the cycle of love poems titledVeinte poemas de amor y una cancin desesperadapublished in English translation asTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. At least, that's the unanimous conclusion of an international group of . Neruda reportedly did not send funds to Hagenaar or ever visit his childs grave. Nothing But Death. intellectualizers, Rilkeans, The former Mexican ambassador to Chile at the time of the bloody military coup, Gonzalo Martnez Corbal, told AP on two occasions that he saw Neruda the day before his death and that his body weight was close to 100 kilos (220 pounds). In 2011, Manuel Araya, Mr. Nerudas driver at the time, publicly claimed that the doctors at the clinic poisoned him by injecting an unknown substance into his stomach, saying Mr. Neruda told him this before he died. If Neruda is intolerant of despair, it is because he wants nothing to sully mans residence on earth. From the 1940s on, his works reflected the political struggle of the left and the socio-historical developments in South America. Also editor and translator of Paginas escogidas de Anatole France, 1924. The poet is always present throughout the book not only because he describes those events, interpreting them according to a definite outlook on history, but also because the epic of the continent intertwines with his own epic. Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring. Last month, experts from Chile and abroad began meetings to discuss the results of previous studies carried out on the remains of Neruda, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1971. What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her. Shooting stars, falling objects. The latest expert report, presented to a court on Wednesday, will be reviewed by judges in closed hearings ahead of a legally binding . By the time the second volume of the collection was published in 1935 the poet was serving as consul in Spain, where for the first time, reported Duran and Safir, he tasted international recognition, at the heart of the Spanish language and tradition. He produced an ideological work that largely transcended contemporary events and became an epic of an entire continent and its people. According to Alazraki, By bringing together his own odyssey and the drama of the continent, Neruda has simultaneously given toCanto generalthe quality of a lyric and an epic poem. where death is waiting, dressed like an admiral. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Residencia en la tierra,published in English asResidence on Earth,is widely celebrated as containing some of Nerudas most extraordinary and powerful poetry, according to de Costa. This is, in many ways, Neruda at his best. my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her. Love is so short and oblivion so long. And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass. and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance." I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. These are, in my opinion, five of his best poems out of his large collection of works. Nerudas politics had an important impact on his poetry. If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. 1993 by Robert Bly. "We still can't exclude nor affirm the natural or violent cause of Pablo Neruda's death.". There was no confirmation of Reyes' comments from forensic experts from Canada, Denmark and Chile who are scheduled to publicly release a report Wednesday on the cause of Neruda's death. As she once Among his teachers was the poet Gabriela Mistralwho would be a Nobel laureate years before Neruda, reported Manuel Duran and Margery Safir inEarth Tones: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. belonged to my kisses. Many of his last poems, some published posthumously, indicate his awareness of his deaths approach. To feel that I have lost her. Start with five of the best Pablo Neruda poems to get a taste of his work and style. I have forgotten your face, I no longer They persecute and censor their opponents, herd them into concentration camps, torture and execute them in ways that rarely vary from country to country, era to era. Why risk something that scandalous being discovered and further soiling their already foul international image? Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day. by Paul A. Lacey and Anne Dewey. in the face of this dark human being, Canto generalis, thus, the song of a continent as much as it is Nerudas own song. To feel that I've lost her. It is hard not to be swept away by the urgency of his language, and thats especially so when he seems swept away.. Nerudas widow, Matilde Urrutia, had told me that this was the cause of his death, even though shed emphasized that the destruction of democracy and of the peaceful revolution her husband had so enthusiastically embraced had hastened his passing. Keeping Quiet is a splendid poem by Pablo Neruda that dwells on a quality which seems to have been lost in the buzz of the 21st century - the quality of silence. 22 January 2015. Once in a while, however, a story surfaces that is so startling, so malicious, so unheard of, that people are jolted out of their fatigue. Neruda had reached a moment from which there was no turning back. Araya said he first heard that version of events from a nurse. If you want to read one of the worlds best poets, Pablo Neruda is the perfect place to start. A team of international scientists say they are "100% convinced" that Chile's celebrated Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda did not die from prostate cancer, his official cause of death . His books have been translated into more than 35 languages. In the dark pines the wind disentangles itself. Who Was Pablo Neruda and Why Is His Death a Mystery? Neruda, who was best known for his love poems, was a friend of Allende, who killed himself rather than surrender to troops during the coup led by Pinochet. Chilean poet and political hero, Pablo Neruda is often viewed as a visionary. I was lonely as a tunnel. Back in Chile, Neruda retreated to Isla Negra, where he passed away on 23 September 1973. On September 23, 1973, poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda breathed his last at the Santa Maria Clinic in Santiago. Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, the broom is the tongue of death looking for corpses. Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to of violets that are at home in the earth, with the penetrating dampness of a violet leaf. Araya told AP earlier this month he was confident that the forensic findings would support his assertion the poet died after being given "an injection in the stomach" at the clinic where he was hospitalized. Ricardo Elicer Neftal Reyes Basoalto, also known as Pablo Neruda was born on July 12, 1904 in a small town in Chile. Sign up to receive Check Your Shelf, the Librarian's One-Stop Shop For News, Book Lists, And More. But Neruda matters also because he sang into sensuous existence the most modest and ordinary objects of lifetomatoes, artichokes, socks, bread, air, copper, fruit, onions, a clock ticking in the middle of the night, the foaming waves of the sea, the everyday things and moods like tranquility and sadness that, after the poet has illuminated them, we can no longer take for granted. By Peter Kornbluh. In the final report given to a Chilean judge on Wednesday, those scientists said that other circumstantial evidence supported the theory of murder, including the fact that in 1981, the military dictatorship had poisoned prisoners with bacteria potentially similar to the strain found in Mr. Neruda. But they said that without further evidence, they could not determine the cause of Mr. Nerudas death. And there are corpses,feet made of cold and sticky clay,death is inside the bones,like a barking where there are no dogs,coming out from bells somewhere, from graves somewhere,growing in the damp air like tears of rain. The collection draws from 36 different translators, and some of his major works are also presented in their original Spanish. A third inquiry into the death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda 50 years ago could shed new light on whether he was poisoned by political enemies, as alleged by some of his family. (Translator into Spanish) William Shakespeare. Pablo Neruda was a Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet who was once called "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language." He died mysteriously in 1973. caskets sailing up the vertical river of the dead. But suspicions that the dictatorship had a hand in the death remained long after Chile returned to democracy in 1990. in it darkness, darkness, darkness, Neruda died of leukemia in Santiago on 23 September in 1973. Nancy Willardwrote inTestimony of the Invisible Man, Neruda makes it clear that our most intense experience of impermanence is not death but our own isolation among the living. confronted with the reign of anguish, Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924) have sold over a million copies since it first appeared. Who Was Pablo Neruda? graves full of bones that do not make a sound, of coarse and trampled lives? Recent news about the mysterious 1973 death of Pablo Neruda, the Chilean Nobel Prize winner and one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, has created such an occasion. Chile exhumes poet Pablo Neruda. He continued as well his role as public poet inCancin de geste,in parts ofCantos ceremoniales,in the mythicalLa Espada encendida,and the angryIncitement to Nixonicide and Praise for the Chilean Revolution. This is the English Translation of Puedo Escribir.http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/14386-Pablo-Neruda-Puedo-Escribir. His remains, which have now . Love. Mr. Neruda's death in a private clinic just weeks after the coup was determined to be the result of cancer, but the timing and the circumstances have long raised doubts about whether his death was something more nefarious. On the evening of Sept. 23, 1973, the clinic reported that Mr. Neruda died of heart failure. Araya told AP last month he still thinks that if Neruda "hadn't been left alone in the clinic, they wouldn't have killed him.". want to sing your name with their leaves of wire. Feb 14, 2023. provided at no charge for educational purposes, Canto Xii From The Heights Of Macchu Picchu, Come With Me, I Said, And No One Knew (VII), http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/14386-Pablo-Neruda-Puedo-Escribir. It was while Neruda was serving in Paris that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, in recognition of his oeuvre. By Joel Whitney. Since then, he later wrote, I have been convinced that it is the poets duty to take his stand.. The same night that whitens the same trees. My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing. When Salvador Allende was elected president, he appointed Neruda as Chile's ambassador to France (1970-72). Poems to celebrate successes, salute loved ones, and offer thanks for lifes blessings, big and small. secretly, between the shadow and the soul. During his time in Barcelona as a diplomat, Mr. Nerudas experience of the Spanish Civil War pushed him into a more engaged political stance. Her infinite eyes. As a senator, he was critical of the government of President Gabriel Gonzlez Videla, who ruled Chile from 1946 to 1952, which led Mr. Neruda into forced exile for four years. The master stroke and the epitome of the poem is Neruda's personification of death: "Death arrives among all that sound. The Communist Party to which Neruda had belonged demanded an inquiry, which led to the exhumation of his body two years later. Her infinite eyes. Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904-September 23, 1973) is recognized as one of the great 20th century poets. Contributor of poems and articles to periodicals, including Selva austral, Poetry, Nation, Commonweal, Canadian Forum, and California Quarterly. An added difficulty lies in the fact that Nerudas poetry is very hard to translate; his works available in English represent only a small portion of his total output. Twenty Love Poems made Neruda a celebrity, and he subsequently devoted himself to verse. The moon glows like phosphorous on the vagrant waters. To think I don't have her. Mr. Neruda is one of Latin Americas most prominent figures of the 20th century for his poetry and his political activism calling out U.S. meddling abroad, denouncing the Spanish Civil War and supporting Chiles Communist Party. the heart moving through a tunnel, Academy of American Poets, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038. graves full of bones that do not make a sound. Neruda expanded on his political views in the poemCanto general,which, according to de Costa, is a lengthy epic on mans struggle for justice in the New World. Although Neruda had begun the poem as early as 1935when he had intended it to be limited in scope only to Chilehe completed some of the work while serving in the Chilean senate as a representative of the Communist Party. 1009 Words5 Pages. After Allende won the election he reactivated Nerudas diplomatic credentials, appointing the poet ambassador to France. Neruda, Pablo (1904-73) Chilean poet, b. Neftal Ricardo Reyes. Pablo Neruda (/ n r u d /; Spanish: [palo neua])(born Ricardo Elicer Neftal Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 - 23 September 1973), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. CNN . As a lawyer in the judicial case over his uncle's death, Reyes said he has access to the forensic report, which was carried out after the same group of experts said in 2017 that there were indications of a toxin in the late poet's bones and a molar. Sometimes I see alonecoffins under sail, embarking with the pale dead, with women that have dead hair,with bakers who are as white as angels,and pensive young girls married to notary publics,caskets sailing up the vertical river of the dead,the river of dark purple,moving upstream with sails filled out by the sound of death,filled by the sound of death which is silence. After Chiles coup dtat, one of the most violent in Latin America, troops raided Mr. Nerudas properties. This is Aalto. Franny and Danez talk with the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On, which came out in 2020 on Copper Canyon, about working Pablo Neruda's exile marked one of the 20th century's greatest literary chase scenes, and the Cold War's first global manhunt. 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