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Voices of Disapproval. Students cheered the election promise but not Yerovi, whom they viewed as a symbol of the hated oligarchy. In Guayaquil, Cuenca and Loja, they stormed government buildings and held them for hours. Nevertheless, Yerovi went calmly ahead and took the oath of office as Ecuador's 57th president. "I have heard voices of disapproval for my presence here," he said in his inaugural address. "I would like them to know my point of view." With that Yerovi promised peace, austerity and economic stability. Meantime, students outside were chanting on: "People, yes! Yerovi...
...researchers' benefactor was James M. Jacobs, who owns J August Co. on the Square and a great deal of expensive ham radio equipment tucked away in his home on a hill in Brookline. Begining the morning after the assault, he spoke daily with officials of the hospital in Cuenca where the victims were being treated, and with the American Embassy in Quito. Every morning he connected the home phones of the Nortons and Paynters into his 4000-mile radio hookup, and they were able to follow the progress of the victims as if they were in the neighborhood hospital...
Raymond A. Paynter, curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and his wife have been released from the hospital in Cuenca, Ecuador. They will fly to New York Thursday night and spend a few days with their family in Hamden, Connecticut, before returning to Cambridge...
James M. Jacobs, president of J. August Co. in Harvard Square, has been making daily ham-radio contacts to Ecuador since the machete attack in the jungle near Cuenca, November 6. Jacobs has arranged conversations for the three ornithologists with their families...
...took four hours to transport the victims by bus to the hospital at Cuenca. Norton was treated for minor cuts and released, but the Paynters were admitted in serious condition...