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...easy to locate the dead: as soon as the rains stopped, the Puerto Rican sun quickly baked the gooey clay rock-hard. By week's end only 38 bodies had been recovered. But Ponce Mayor Jose Dapena predicted that the death toll could eventually rise to 500. That would rank not only as Puerto Rico's worst single disaster in this century but as the most destructive landslide in U.S. history...
Sanchez, 54, said that he hoped to marry twice-divorced Jeannette Ramos Buonomo, 36, an attractive attorney who, until last month, had been his legislative assistant from the time he was elected Governor two years ago. However, Conchita Dapena de Sanchez Vilella insisted that she would not give the Governor a divorce. "It is true that a separation does exist," she told a news conference. "However, I have neither sought it nor provoked it, nor have I caused it to occur...
...Brain. Ironically, Philadelphia is one of the places where the most intensive work has been done on crib deaths. Dr. Marie Valdes-Dapena, who has studied the problem for years, says that as many as 80% of crib deaths cannot be explained even after an unusually detailed autopsy. Dr. Frederic Rieders, the city's chief toxicologist, discovered an unidentified red substance in the brains of 80% of babies whose deaths are unexplained, and has found the stuff in only 20% of cases where there is a known cause of death. But what it is, or what relationship it bears...
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