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...what really put Markelov in the spotlight was his representation of the family of Elza Kungayeva - the 18-year-old Chechen woman whom Budanov had strangled in his quarters in March 2000 just as Russia's second war in Chechnya was beginning. The Budanov case became a symbol for the thousands of human-rights abuses committed by both sides in Chechnya. Budanov served part of a 10-year sentence but was paroled for good behavior and released last Thursday. At the news conference just before his death, Markelov said he might file an appeal against Budanov's early release...
...final years, according to Sao Paulo papers, Pedro fell in love with a housemaid, Elza Gulpian de Oliveira. But as the thin-faced, 34-year-old woman told it last week, the old man persistently refused to marry her, without explaining why. When she married another man in 1978, Pedro moped and pined. The last image of Pedro, from another former maid, Ines Mehlich, was his valediction as he left on his fatal seaside trip with the Bosserts in 1979: "I'm going to the beach because my life is ending...
Host of Hidalgos. Leaving no hidalgo unturned, Dutch newspapers variously identified him as Juan Bosco Alvear, son of a rich winegrowing family, who announced that he had "never even met her"; Bilbao's Santiago Ybarra, a steel tycoon, who protested: "I have a girl friend"; dashing young Fernando Elza-buru, who had actually visited The Netherlands and met Irene. Or could her fiance be Prince Alfonso de Borbon, a nephew of Don Juan, the pretender to the Spanish throne? Not likely, said Alfonso, as he flew off to an athletic rally in Czechoslovakia...
...back in the news in Los Angeles. The arm-throwing, hair-shaking shouter, whose I Don't Care made her one of vaudeville's biggest stars in her youth, had periodically been reported near death during the last ten years. Last week she charged that Elza Schallert, a writer at work on her biography, refused to give back her autobiographical notes. Eva wanted the notes...
...retired, noted with satisfaction that his little school was giving a good account of itself beyond, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. Seventy of his boys, nearly a third of all who have graduated from his junior college, went off to fight for their country. One, Marine Elza O'Neal, was captured on Wake Island ("Send more Japs"); another, Lieut. William R. Ussery, was killed in action in a plane in the Pacific; a third, Lieut. Denver Truelove, flew with Jimmy Doolittle to bomb Tokyo...