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...year-old warrior who had been holding fast with more than chalk, not even Vidmar seemed to mind. The U.S. exhibition baseball team was able to square accounts (2-1) with those Taiwanese Little Leaguers, all grown up, without excessive jingoism at Dodger Stadium. Swivel-hipped Mexican Walker Ernesto Canto pleased everyone in the Coliseum with his grand sombrero. Admittedly, that "U.S.A.!" chant can sound a little sour in a 40-point basketball blowout...
...Fidel Castro's onetime comrade-in-arms and a quixotically unsuccessful exporter of revolution in Latin America, the late Ernesto ("Che") Guevara is a Marxist cult figure of high standing. Last week his chief legacy was a hot capitalist property and the object of hectic legal maneuvering in London. As the result of a legal action by the Bolivian government, a British judge upheld an injunction on Sotheby's auction house, preventing the sale of the original diaries of the Argentine-born guerrilla leader. The court order will allow Bolivia to continue its efforts to recover the documents...
...prices are enough to send anyone to the couch. Some chairs go for $5,500, sofas for $6,200 and Architect Michael Graves' maple, brass and lacquered wood single-bed unit fetches a breathtaking $19,500. But Memphis' business-minded president Ernesto Gismondi, who also owns the highly successful Artemide line, is pushing for more marketable designs and prices. Memphis' latest edition sports straighter legs, more illuminating lamps and affordable price tags. "Fust," a metal-and-wood side chair by De Lucchi, for instance, sells...
...constructed so that the courts cannot question its provisions and an incoming civilian government cannot reverse the blanket amnesty it grants. Nonetheless, most election candidates rejected the law. Italo Luder of the Peronists and Raul Alfonsin of the Radicals confidently promised to repeal it, if elected. Said Argentine Novelist Ernesto Sabato: "I think that this is the only case in the history of international law in which the guilty dictate a law exonerating themselves...
...DIED. Ernesto de la Guardia, 78, President of Panama from 1956 to 1960; in Panama City. The target of the first liberation campaign sponsored by Cuba's Fidel Castro, De la Guardia in 1959 invoked the Rio Treaty, calling on his neighbors to help repel the threat. The "invaders" turned out to be a comic-opera troupe of adventurers who had been recruited by De la Guardia's chief political rival, Roberto Arias, and his wife Ballerina Margot Fonteyn. As the coup fizzled, Arias fled, Fonteyn was arrested, and the Cubans, repudiated by Castro, were induced to surrender...