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...Santo Domingo. Within minutes, 133 U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne were on their way by helicopter and plane to Santiago. By the time they snuffed out the battle, the hotel was a shambles, and 23 loyalist Dominican troops and five rebels were dead, including Colonel Juan Maria Lora Fernández, 40, a U.S.-trained officer who was Caamaño's chief of staff during the April revolt...
...desert-such as they are-have also made a comeback. Great disks of land that nuclear explosions wiped clear of plants are now covered again. Seeds in the ground apparently were not killed: some bomb-denuded places bloomed during the following spring with unusually luxuriant growths of tumbleweed. Biologist Lora Shields of New Mexico Highlands University, who is studying the site's resurgent biology, says that the spherical tumbleweeds rolled across the denuded sites scattering their seeds, and found the atomized soil exactly to their liking. So far, no atom-induced plant mutations have appeared, and trees...
Maid: I'm just (gasp) tired, Miss Lora . . . awfully . . . tired...
...LORA D. REITER
...prisoners jostled their way out into the darkness, some carrying little violins and chess sets that they had carved with penknives during confinements of as long as three years. The most notable among the liberated men: Gustavo Stumpf, tall, blond leader of the right-wing Socialist Falange, and Guillermo Lora, bearded chief of the Trotskyite Revolutionary Workers Party...