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...hurricane velocity of 70 m.p.h. along the coast; the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in Massachusetts recorded one gust of 108 m.p.h. The winds blew down enough power lines to leave 250,000 homes and businesses, mostly in Massachusetts and Connecticut, without light or heat. After being stranded at La Guardia Airport in New York City, Walter Mondale canceled plans to campaign upstate...
...have large enrollments of low-income and minority students. The foundation is particularly concerned about improving their chances for academic success; nationwide more than half of all black and Hispanic college students attend two-year institutions. Ford picked programs that are encouraging students to set their goals high: La Guardia Community College in New York City, for example, is helping its students prepare for Vassar...
...virtually all of the commanders of the country's armed forces gathered at the Guatemala City barracks of the Guardia de Honor, an elite army garrison. There were impassioned arguments for and against ousting Rios Montt, but gradually the plotters won. The decisive factor: the news that Sisniega Otero was once again planning to move against Rios Montt. Explains a Guatemalan journalist: "The ghost of another coup from the extreme right provoked this coup...
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...
...People's $69 one-way fare ($49 at night) Eastern, whose standard coach fares are more than $200 for those flights, has retaliated with a $72 fare, but only for a few seats on night flights out of Newark. Moreover, Florida-bound Eastern customers boarding at nearby La Guardia Airport pay more, mainly because People flights are not available there...