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...Ewings of Dallas may have had their spats, but the hottest blood feud on American TV this season unfolded in Spanish, not English. The setting was Acapulco; the central character, a nasty stepbrother named Maximiliano. In a complicated scheme to win a family inheritance, he fooled a young woman into marrying him by posing as his half brother Antonio. Then he plotted the real Antonio's death in an "accidental" plane crash. The scheme went awry, however, when Antonio survived and returned to battle Maximiliano for both the money and the woman...
Earlier there had been a more brutal awakening. While on vacation in Acapulco after college, she met a local doctor who invited her out to dinner after he made some house calls. The last stop, says Allred, was a motel, where the man pulled a gun and raped her. She says she nearly died after a subsequent illegal abortion...
LATIN AMERICA. American tourists in Mexico are finding that the drop in the value of the peso, from 23 to the dollar in 1980 to about 190 today, has more than offset inflationary price rises. A room in the El Mirador Acapulco that went for $38 last year now costs just $16. The Mexico City subway fare is only one-half a U.S. penny, and 65? pays for a movie ticket. But swank shops in Mexico City's so-called Pink Zone can fool the unwary. For his $50 the tourist may get only imitation Gucci shoes, but real...
DIED. Johnny Weissmuller, 79, record-setting swimmer (five Olympic gold medals) turned cinematic Tarzan (twelve movies); in Acapulco, Mexico. "They gave me a G-string," he claimed of his MGM bosses, "and said, 'Can you climb a tree?'" Weissmuller, the archetypal Hollywood hunk, led an extravagantly untidy personal life highlighted by five failed marriages and a portfolio of foolish business ventures...
...bags and mix VisiCalc with volleyball. The Computer Resort in Chico, Calif, sponsored by Texas Instruments, features jumbo-size steaks barbecued around a swimming pool. Princess Cruises in Los Angeles will coordinate 15 hours of classes with a ten-day sail that includes calls at Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta and Acapulco. Cost: $1,995. Prefer your silicon seminars on terra firma? For $879, Club Med provides Atari computers along with white-sand beaches and pina coladas at Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic...