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...years as a pilot with Western Air Lines, Captain Charles Gilbert, 53, had made the run between Los Angeles and Mexico City hundreds of times. The last occasion had been in late October, six days after Runway 23-L, which is the only one at Benito Juarez International Airport equipped for instrument landings, had been closed for repairs. Last week, before he took off at 12:50 a.m. from Los Angeles in command of Flight 2605, the "Night Owl," carrying 13 crew members and 75 passengers, he was reminded that he had to land on Runway...
...basic purpose of Carter's trip is to overcome years of bitterness and persuade the Mexicans that the U.S. is not only their best customer but also their best friend. His itinerary is very businesslike. After landing at Benito Juarez Airport and offering some good wishes in his Georgia-accented Spanish, Carter will go straight to the Mexican National Palace for the first of two private sessions with López Portillo. He will lunch with Mexican diplomats, consult with the U.S. embassy staff and address the Mexican Congress...
DIED. Max Ascoli, 79, educator, author and editor of the Reporter, a distinguished but now defunct fortnightly journal of ideas; in Manhattan. An Italian antiFascist, Ascoli was jailed briefly under Benito Mussolini's regime and immigrated to the U.S. in 1931. The Reporter, which he founded in 1949, ran vigorous stories criticizing the China lobby, McCarthyism and governmental misuse of wiretapping. As staunchly anti-Communist as he was antiFascist, Ascoli supported the growing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam during the '60s, thereby alienating many liberal readers and leading to the demise of his magazine...
...Asmara, the city that Benito Mussolini called "the gem of the Horn of Africa," the Ethiopian army is increasingly nervous. The vital 56-mile highway to the port of Massawa, as well as all other roads, is frequently cut, if not actually controlled, by Eritrean forces. The railroad from the port of Assab carries no traffic; its bridges have been destroyed by guerrillas. Ethiopian army units dare not travel unescorted more than a few miles outside the capital. When they do go farther, they move by convoy with tank protection and air cover. Their supplies arrive only...
...credentials. He has spent almost half his life in prison on charges ranging from gambling, narcotics trafficking and bootlegging to extortion, assault and homicide. Galante first gained respect within the Mafia for his suspected involvement in the murder of Carlo Tresca, an Italian-American newspaper editor and enemy of Benito Mussolini; police believed that Tresca was knocked off at the urging of il Duce himself...