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Other highlights include impressions of Mae West, W. C. Field, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini, in several of the production's numbers...
...frustration. After initial hesitation, the proud Mexicans, who historically have rejected foreign assistance following natural disasters, decided to welcome outside emergency aid. Within two days of the quake, U.S. Air Force C-5A Galaxy, C-141 StarLifter and C-130 Hercules transports were flying into Mexico City's Benito Juarez airport from eight U.S. air bases. Their cargo holds were filled with portable generators, jackhammers, jacks and winches. The planes also ferried in sleeping bags, cots, blankets and, ominously, 5,000 rubberized body bags. By week's end about 350 tons of U.S. supplies had been airlifted, along with some...
Runways at Mexico City's Benito Juarez airport were largely intact, but flights into the stricken capital were halted for a while as officials checked for damage. By nightfall, Mexican airlines and most U.S. carriers resumed service. Some of the initial eyewitness accounts of the tragedy came from travelers on the first flights...
SENTENCED. Jack Elder, 41, Roman Catholic activist director of a shelter in San Benito, Texas, that provides sanctuary to illegal Central American refugees; to 150 days in a halfway house, after being convicted in February of transporting Salvadorans who illegally entered the country and of conspiracy; in Brownsville, Texas. Elder, facing a maximum of 30 years, refused an offer of two years' probation if he would end his activities and public support for the sanctuary movement. The judge imposed a light jail sentence, he said, because "I admire your motivation...
ACQUITTED. Jack Elder, 41, Roman Catholic activist in the sanctuary-movement network of some 200 U.S. church congregations that harbor illegal immigrants fleeing violence-shattered Central American countries; of charges that last March he transported three undocumented Salvadorans from a San Benito, Texas, refuge to a bus station "in furtherance of their illegal presence" in the U.S.; in Corpus Christi, Texas. A federal judge ruled that Elder's conduct was based on his religious beliefs; the jury concluded that Elder's actions did not further the aliens' illegal journey. A Government spokesman says that the verdict will not interfere with...