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...underscore its concern, the U.S. also sent the aircraft carrier Eisenhower to within 150 miles of Libya's shores. Another carrier, the Coral Sea, was ordered to delay its scheduled departure for the coast of Central America. On Saturday the U.S. dispatched two AWACS planes and a number of support aircraft to monitor aerial activity in the desert conflict...
Ghiselin has used some of the funds to travel to coral reefs in the Pacific, and to "fool around" in the Darwin archives at Cambridge University. In fact, Ghiselin decided to give Cambridge $5,000 to help preserve the archives, and he also donated $10,000 to the University of Utah, where he was a visiting scholar, for a series of lectures on evolution. Says Ghiselin: "I've become sort of a philanthropist myself. It allows me to share the wealth...
Meanwhile, another battle group, headed by the carrier Coral Sea, which is in the Mediterranean, will take up a station off the Caribbean coast of Honduras and Nicaragua. Other battle groups may rotate with the first two in the naval exercises, which are scheduled to continue through January. That is much longer than previous "routine" exercises. No actual interdiction of ships carrying arms to Nicaragua or El Salvador is planned, although suspect vessels will be watched and photographed. The highly publicized preparations contrast sharply with the private observations of some U.S. military officials in El Salvador that stopping the influx...
...gang of Central Americans and Americans was allegedly responsible for the kidnaping. Three of them had waited in the bushes to grab their victim as she pulled her Mercedes into the driveway of the Quinonez home in the wealthy Miami suburb of Coral Gables. They then drove her to the hideaway in Washington. Calling from telephone booths in Miami and Washington, they negotiated with her husband, Export-Import Dealer Roberto Quinonez Meza, for a ransom of $1.5 million. Disobeying the kidnapers' orders, Quinonez had notified the FBI the first day of the abduction and had taken calls from...
...themselves. But they are a bit slow on the draw when it comes to parting with nickels on the beach. They have not won the hearts and minds of the straw-doll and coconut vendors, who complain that the visitors bring their own thermos bottles and never buy native coral jewelry...