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Febres Cordero responded by declaring a national state of emergency. Officials closed the Quito airport and ordered four local radio stations off the air. On Friday, elite government troops led by tanks stormed the air base. Air force troops loyal to Vargas were overwhelmed in a brief but fierce midday battle. The cost: four dead and nine wounded. Some 400 rebels were rounded up and confined to an army compound. "Loco" Vargas, his private rebellion quashed once and for all, was again taken into custody and imprisoned at an unnamed army base...
...searing portrait of a desperate alcoholic earned him an Oscar; of cancer; in Torrance, Calif. Once one of the best handgun and rifle marksmen in the British army, the dashing Milland stumbled into acting in minor roles, went to Hollywood and so enjoyed his craft that he abandoned a brief retirement in the early 1960s to take TV and movie character parts almost until his death...
...beens teaches him an austere lesson. "There are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough." That goes for his fleeting fame as the author of a volume of good short stories and the brief life-span of his son Ralph, who died of Reye's syndrome at age nine...
Soviet officialdom treated the visit with a mixture of politesse and disdain. In the days leading up to the Moscow concert, there was no mention of the Horowitz visit in either Pravda or Izvestiya, only a brief announcement in the newspaper Sovietskaya Kultura. Soviet musical commissars explained the lack of coverage by observing the concert was already sold out. "We think of him as an American pianist," said Tikhon Khrennikov, the all-powerful first secretary of the Soviet composers' union, who nevertheless went to the concert. In response to the American attack on Libya, the Soviets boycotted a dinner...
...honeymoon was to be brief, since the bride's leave from CBS is short and the bridegroom has a film crew waiting on location. Naturally, the site was kept secret. --By Sara C. Medina. Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Hyannis