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...private security guard says, panning his hand across the 336,289-sq-m marina. "It's rotting." Rather than serving as a home to the sport for which it was built, he complains, the $144 million facility is now used as a depot for a handful of vehicles. The compound is lifeless, with not even a seagull in sight. Across the road at the Helliniko Olympic Complex, venues for another seven sports - baseball, basketball, canoeing and kayaking, fencing, handball, hockey and softball - gather dust. Posses of stray dogs roam across the expanses of untended grounds, loose electrical cables hang over...
...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...
...From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the wedding day, all air traffic within a two-mile radius of the Kennedys' seaside compound in nearby Hyannis Port was prohibited from cruising below 2,000 ft. A security force of Barnstable County police officers paid by the Shrivers had been patrolling the area for several days...
After the one-hour, 15-minute nuptial Mass, the limousines and buses delivered the 450 guests to the Kennedy compound, where two huge white tents equipped with heavy sidewalls and heaters kept out the chill breeze off Nantucket Sound. Inside, fruit trees in full pink-and-white bloom gave the lie to the weather, and a sumptuous lunch was capped by an eight-tier wedding cake weighing a whopping 425 lbs. and topped by the traditional bride and groom figures...
While no American casualties were reported, Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams said the U.S. embassy in San Salvador was virtually destroyed, and the bunker-like compound might have to be razed. The loss would be a painful one, since the embassy served as a nerve center for the U.S.-backed campaign against the guerrillas...