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DIED. SIR PETER BLAKE, 53, yachtsman and explorer who led New Zealand to America's Cup championships in 1995 and 2000; when masked pirates came aboard his moored yacht and shot him as he tried to prevent the robbery; at the mouth of the Amazon River, near Macapa. Blake had been in Brazil for two months monitoring the effects of global warming and pollution...
...DIED. PETER BLAKE, 53, a two-time America's Cup winner and New Zealand sailing hero, shot by masked pirates who raided his 40-m yacht on the Amazon; near Macapa, Brazil. A U.N. goodwill ambassador, Blake was on a worldwide expedition to monitor global warming and pollution. He won the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994 for sailing a catamaran nonstop around the globe in record time. DIED. JUAN JOSE ARREOLA, 83, a fiercely nationalist Mexican author who wrote 16 books of short stories and won Mexico's distinguished National Linguistics and Literature Prize in 1976; in Mexico City. Arreola...
...eight seats in the 24-man Philippine Senate, where, he complains, the twelve Nacionalista Senators have thwarted his ambitious programs for land reform, industrialization and control of inflation. Wearing his traditional baseball cap with its presidential insignia, and clad in a white barong tagalog (a light, loose-sleeved shirt), Macapa gal stumped the grass roots explaining his aims of "making capitalists out of workers...
...Macapa, on the mouth ofthe Amazon, for rest and mechanical checkup for the plane...
Luckier than all the prospectors were the traders who grubstaked them. Isaac Alcolumbre, a 4O-year-old Macapa merchant, collected 66 Ibs. of gold, worth $54,000, on loans totaling $15,000. Young Florisberto Pimentel resigned his job as a government health officer, invested his $600 savings in medicines and sold them for $3,000. "One more trip and I can set up my own drugstore," he said...