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...them, the worker, has brought his daughter (Marta Zoffoli), a child of about eight, with him. She will share a bedroom with the old man, hear his explanation of why a countryman needs no alarm clock, play sensuously in the grain stored in the barn and, while her father and uncles are at the funeral, find a symbolic egg and present it to her grandfather. She alone among the visitors will cry for the dead woman and elicit answering tears from her grandfather. Thus do the innocence of childhood and the simplifying wisdom of age find common ground, and strike...
DIED. Jaime RoldÓs Aguilera, 40, President of Ecuador and youngest elected head of state in South America; in a plane crash that also killed his wife Marta, 39, Defense Minister Marco Subia Martinez, 51, and six others; in the Andes Mountains. A Guayaquil lawyer, Roldos entered the 1978 presidential race as a stand-in populist candidate for his politically prominent uncle-by-marriage (who was ruled ineligible to run) and went on to win a runoff the following year by the largest margin in his nation's history, ending nine years of dictatorship...
...President Reagan is resurrecting the 'they-only-understand-force' foreign policy toward the Soviet Union. "Marta Daniels of the American Friends Service Committee (AIFS), told the audience of approximately 25 persons. Reagan's policy could result in the "greatest pinnacle of insecurity this globe has ever known." Daniels added...
...couple of Reagan's more candid assistants acknowledge that some of the candidate's miscues are caused by an almost naive desire to prove that some conviction he holds dear is correct. The other day he visited the Santa Marta Hospital in a chicano area of East Los Angeles and told the institution's staff that he had asked a nun there whether the hospital gets "compensation from Medicaid or anything like that." She had answered no, he reported, and then told the group, "I appreciate your pride in that." But a puzzled senior administrator later informed...
...cannot seem to do is get his nose out of a book or newspaper to pay some loving concern to his Gentile wife (Chris Weatherhead) or provide some fatherly guidance to their two children. This pair, a nine-year-old boy (Eric Gurry) and his 13-year-old sister (Marta Kober) are quintessential snots with IQs high enough to float off the charts. Two more tasty noodles are dropped into this comedic chicken broth...