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...their newborn son to be officially registered in the Bavarian town of Erding (pop. 11,500), they were greeted with a mixture of perplexity and horror. In 27 years on the job, the town registrar informed them, he had never been presented with the name "Che." Even in Argentina, he noted, it is not a proper first name but translates roughly as "hey, you." Also, he added, one cannot tell whether the name refers to a boy or a girl. Acting within his powers under German law, he rejected the name...
...from Holland. Of Vandenberg's eight children, four inherited his ailment, including one daughter who passed it on to seven of her nine children. Last month the N.G.F. staged a reunion in South Dakota for 95 of Vandenberg's descendants, who came from five states and Argentina. On hand were Drs. William Nyhan and Roger Rosenberg of the University of California School of Medicine at San Diego, plus Dr. Lawrence Schut, a Minneapolis neurologist who is one of the unaffected members of the Swier family. With the family's permission, a crew from WCCO-TV of Minneapolis...
...next three or four months, are the three American firms that control copper mining. Anaconda, Kennecott and Cerro together have investments of $617 million tied up in Chilean copper. Allende's move was the latest in a recent series of major expropriation steps in Latin America. In September, Argentina nationalized its telephone and telegraph industry. In October, Bolivia announced that it plans to seize all foreign holdings...
Weary and desperately trying to hold off the bull-like rushes and lunges of the South American heavyweight champion from Argentina, Ali suddenly nailed the strong-jawed Bonavena with a solid left hook to the jaw that dropped Oscar for a count...
Publicity Stunt? The would-be assassin, police soon learned, was not a Filipino but a Bolivian painter, Benjamin Mendoza y Amor, 35, who had lived in Argentina, the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines since leaving La Paz in 1962. He wanted to kill the Pope, he claimed, "to save the people from hypocrisy and superstition." In an interview the next day, Mendoza said that he had first formed the idea of assassinating the Pope "a long time ago," and would try again if he were free. Filipino acquaintances agreed that Mendoza was "a frustrated artist." A New York...