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...Bertha R. Mitrani New York City...
...Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979 and now a bitter opponent of the Sandinista government. Dozens of people were in the terminal at the moment of the attack, but only four people were injured, mostly by shrapnel and flying debris. One, a young military reservist, died the next day. Bertha Mayo, a waitress at the airport restaurant, was on her way to work when she saw the plane dropping its bomb. "When I arrived at the airport a few minutes later," she said, "the terminal building was covered with flames and many people were fleeing." Senators Gary Hart of Colorado...
...almost nothing suggesting Hollywood. He is obsessive about self-control and, perhaps for that reason, takes no drugs, virtually no alcohol and carries herbal tea bags to avoid caffeine drinks. When he is in Beverly Hills he does the food shopping, to the frustration of his maid Bertha Kanafil, and cooks often ("I've ruined a lot of good food," he admits). He is apt to spend four nights a week with his girlfriend Kathleen Carey, 33, a slight, pretty blond woman who works in the music business signing songwriters for Warner Bros. Music. "She has taught me that...
...metropolitan Chicago, 16 deaths were attributed to the weather. One of the hypothermia victims was Bertha Heart, 80, who had somehow survived two previous winters without heat in her shabby South Side apartment. Peoples Gas had shut off her gas service in 1979. Explained a company spokesman: "She did not keep to her payment arrangements." Furnace repairmen, Illinois Bell Telephone (which in one day logged 613,000 calls to its Chicago weather information number, six times more than normal) and travel agents, among others, all had as many customers as they could handle. Said Travel Agent Jason Hess...
...nothing. She was asleep in a nearby convent when the killing took place. There were only two eyewitnesses. One was Francisco Bocel Cumes, 18, a gardener, who was forced at gunpoint to lead the killers to Father Rother's sleeping quarters. The other was an American nurse named Bertha Sanchez, who was sleeping in a guest room in the rectory the night of the murder...