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...expect that the Swedish government's shabby treatment of a great literary figure will go unprotested by its own citizens: there is no Solzhenitsyn in Sweden. VANYA AVELINO Manila...
...riding for Owner Fred Hooper. Within four months, Velasquez won 89 races and set a New Jersey record by booting home six winners in a single day at Garden State Park. His 300 victories last year put him second to Cuba's Avelino Gomez for the riding championship, and so far this season he is well ahead of his closest rival...
Died. Mario Avelino Peron, 64, only brother of Argentina's President Juan Domingo Peron; of peritonitis; in Buenos Aires. Appointed director of the Buenos Aires Zoo by brother Juan in 1946, Mario Perón avoided the spotlight and politics, once said: "I prefer my zoo, where I have all my animals labeled...
Last November's presidential election also left an unsavory taste in the Philippines. Most Filipinos think that victorious President Elpidio Quirino, anxious to forestall any congressional investigation into the election results, made a deal with Jose Avelino, who had been suspended as president of the Philippine Senate for trafficking in government-owned beer. Avelino still controlled enough votes in Congress to get Quirino's election certified as legal. And there is no doubt about the fact that Quirino later helped Avelino to get back his Senate presidency, then sent him flying off on an expensive world tour...
...latest count this week Quirino was clearly in, with nearly 1,125,000 votes. Laurel was second, with about 930,000, and Avelino a limping last with nearly 237,000. It seemed certain that Quirino's party had gained clear-cut control of both houses of the Philippine Congress...