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While a Welsh men's choir sang Rock of Ages and a cheering crowd waved Union Jacks, the civil governor of the province of Cadiz, Mariano Baquedano, last week placed a key in the brass lock of the gate that for 16 years had separated Spain from the British crown colony of Gibraltar. The lock would not budge. Embarrassed, Baquedano handed the key to a Spanish policeman, who also wrestled nervously with the reluctant mechanism. At one minute past the appointed hour of midnight, the lock finally gave way, and the large green gate swung open...
...wounded Cubans say they did not hear Havana's radio instructions that they should resist "to the death." They surrendered in small groups, they said, because they had run out of ammunition. Asked how long the Cubans had possessed large stores of weapons on the island, Lieut. Colonel Mariano Marquez Lopez evaded the question, finally saying that he could not remember...
...delegation also included Roberto Arugello, president of the Nicaraguan Supreme Court; Mariano Fiallos, president of the National University; and Francisco Campbell, first secretary of the Nicaraguan embassy in Washington...
...field held up. After four innings, driving rain forced home plate umpire Ed Mariano to stop the game. But 10 minutes later, the rain had let up slightly and the Crimson batted in the top of the fifth...
...country's embassy in Japan; Dr. Emilio Alvarez Montalván, 57, a Conservative Party politician and ophthalmologist; Jaime Chamorro Cardenal, 46, an engineer, and brother of the late anti-Somoza newspaper editor Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, whose widow is already a member of the junta; Mariano Fiallos Oyanguren, 45, rector of the University of Nicaragua; and Ernesto Fernández Holmann, 38, a banker and economist. The names were intended for San José, where junta members would be asked to add as many as four of the people to the provisional government; meanwhile Vaky, hoping to build support...