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...officers who ousted right wing president Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia in the first military takeover in 19 years installed retired general Efrain Rios Monnt at the head of a three-man junta. Rios Monnt ran unsuccessfully for president...
...quake scoring 3 or more on the Richter scale. When a 5.9 quake snaked through town in August 1979, Tricia Brem was in labor at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital; her bed rolled across the room and slammed into the opposite wall. During the same quake, Store Owner Fernando Gonzalez watched $30,000 worth of liquor somersault from his shelves. Gonzalez was a new man to the liquor business, and an old timer cracked, "He should have put his best whisky on the back of the shelf." Gonzalez still has not made up his losses, but he has learned...
...steel helmets, blocked the avenue in downtown Guatemala City. They trained their rifles on the six unarmed men who were advancing, like prisoners of war, with their arms held high. One of them clutched a large manila folder. Its contents: a letter to Guatemala's outgoing President, General Fernando Romeo Lucas García, charging fraud in last week's presidential election and demanding a new contest. The politicians never delivered the letter; the police...
...last desperate moments what is occurring not all that far south of the border. As events during the past months have proved dramatically, the U.S. has a vital interest in Central America's future. That interest will ultimately depend on forming a genuine partnership with the region. Says Fernando Volio, who will be Costa Rica's next foreign minister: é "We don't want to be involved in the global confrontation just for the sake of the superpowers. We want the U.S. to be involved for our sake as well, and we want to sense and see that clearly...
When the Los Angeles Dodgers' training camp opened this month, the club and Pitching Sensation Fernando Valenzuela, 21, were talking money but found themselves in different ballparks. Fernando and his agent, former Actor Tony De Marco, were asking for about $1 million a year, but would settle for a package reportedly totaling $850,000. Los Angeles is willing to pay $350,000. Unable to bridge the gap, the lefthander picked up his glove and went back to Fernando's Hideaway in Mexico. Said Valenzuela, who earned $42,500 last year: "We are flexible. Why can't they...