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...Quito's junta mil bow out, but wants "extremes" avoided...
...select the leaders of their small (pop. 7.5 million) Andean country. Their choice for President: Jaime Roldós Aguilera, 38, a mild-mannered populist lawyer who won by a smashing 2-to-l ratio, despite a strong right-wing effort on behalf of his conservative opponent, former Quito Mayor Sixto Durán Ball...
DIED. José Maria Velasco Ibarra, 86, Ecuador's charismatic Caudillo who was elected President five times and deposed four; of a heart attack; in Quito. Though he spent only 13 years in power and nearly 30 years in exile in Argentina, he unnerved opponents throughout his life with his vow: "Give me a balcony, and I will govern Ecuador again." Last elected in 1969, he was removed in 1972, but returned to Quito earlier this year "to meditate and await death...
...grave robbers damage antiquities and also trample on important archaeological clues, such as ash, seeds and bone fragments, that can reveal much about ancient civilizations. U.S. Archaeologist Emil Peterson tells how he and his team of diggers from Quito's Central Bank museum would spend weeks at a site, painstakingly excavating only a few inches at a time in order to preserve all possible traces. Then one morning they would find that thieves had come by in the night and obliterated most of the evidence. Eventually, barbed wire had to be installed and guards posted...
...trip wore on, Rosalynn was increasingly taxed - both mentally and physically. In Quito, the 9,350-ft.-high capital of Ecuador, she needed two doses of oxygen to get over the effects of the altitude. She calmly informed members of the ruling military triumvirate that the U.S. was not likely to lift trade restrictions imposed after Ecuador raised its oil prices along with other OPEC members...