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During the past eight months, Northern California has been terrorized by a wave of mass murders and rapes. In Santa Cruz, a succession of coeds from the University of California campus and nearby Cabrillo College disappeared. They were found weeks or months later, decapitated. In all, seemingly random murders took the lives of 19 people around Santa Cruz, including a priest who was stabbed to death in his confessional booth. In the Nob Hill area of San Francisco, a number of Oriental women were assaulted, raped and cut up with knives. One was murdered; another barely survived 22 wounds...
...Kodak Executive Anthony da Cruz drove down the highway on the way to his plant near Buenos Aires, a green Ford truck suddenly swerved in front of him near a point where four workers were installing a traffic sign. Da Cruz slammed on the brakes and was rammed from behind by a Fiat pickup. The four "workmen" and four men in the Fiat all rushed forward and hustled Da Cruz away. Five days later, just before releasing the 38-year-old Portuguese American near the spot where they had seized him, the kidnapers gave local newspapers a photograph that showed...
Officials at the University of California at Santa Cruz last week decided to award Alice Liu and Rosalind Thorpe their degrees posthumously at graduation ceremonies in June. Both students were murdered and their bodies dismembered last month, apparently after being picked up while hitchhiking between the campus and their apartments...
...stepped aside last year in favor of a hand-picked successor, Lawyer Ramón Ernesto Cruz, 69, who became the country's first popularly elected President in 40 years. Cruz proved to be an ineffectual leader. He allowed the shaky ruling coalition to fall apart, and he was unable to ressuscitate the faltering economy-partly because he failed to restore trade relations with El Salvador or to take an active role in the Central American Common Market...
Last week, López, who had stayed on as army chief after giving up the presidency, effortlessly restored himself to power. Nobody was hurt in the takeover; Cruz was simply sent home, where he announced that he had known the coup was coming all along. As Honduras' new President for "not less than five years," López must contend this week with a threatened peasants' hunger march on the capital of Tegucigalpa. After that, he is expected to seek a conciliatory meeting with El Salvador's President Arturo Armando Molina...