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Married. María del Carmen Martinez-Bordíu Franco, 21, eldest granddaughter of Generalissimo Francisco Franco; and Don Alfonso de Borbón y Dampierre , 35, diplomat and grand son of Spain 's last king, Alfonso XIII; in Madrid...
...Gary needed them. A year ago, three out of every four of the 798 students in Banneker elementary school were reading below the national average for their grade. The pupils were all black and mostly from poor families. "We are at rock bottom," admitted Alfonso D. Holliday II, a black physician who headed the city's school board. At Holliday's prodding, the board turned over the entire school for three years to Behavioral Research Laboratories, a firm based in Menlo Park, Calif...
Attributing the attack to "mercenaries in complicity with inferior authorities," President Luis Echeverria Alvarez last week announced the resignation of the country's second most powerful figure: Mexico City Mayor Alfonso Martinez Dominguez, the former boss of Mexico's long-dominant Partido Revolucionario Institutional (P.R.I.). The capital's police chief, Colonel Rogelio Flores Curiel, also resigned. The resignations followed Echeverría's announcement that the city government would be investigated. The Falcons are believed to have been groomed at city expense as a secret army to embarrass and thwart Echeverria's reformist policies...
...have been murdered. Through it all, the police made no move to intervene. Who are the Falcons? Spokesmen for President Luis Echeverría Alvarez put the blame on a right-wing student group known as "Muro." But many Mexicans suspect that the city government is involved. Mayor Alfonso Martínez Domínguez, a former head of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institutional, denounced the students and denied that the city has the Falcons on the payroll. At week's end, the students issued a statement calling for the mayor's removal...
...fighting was over and the city appeared calm. Police and military remained stationed through the night and today at numerous points within the city. Shortly before midnight Mayor Alfonso Martinez Dominquez, meeting with the press, said that the city was calm and that the government would not permit disorders to continue. Today on street-corners throughout the "Normal" area where the fighting had centered many of the right-wing students lingered without the clubs that they had carried yesterday...