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...Montana, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ted Schwinden won the top job after upsetting Governor Thomas Judge in the primary. It may be days before the outcome is known in Puerto Rico, where Statehood Advocate and incumbent Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo finished in a virtual dead heat with former Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, who favors keeping the island's commonwealth status...
Houston's veteran second baseman Joe Morgan lashed a 390-ft. triple in the 11th inning and minutes later Denny Walling brought home pinch runner Rafael Landestoy with a sacrifice fly to left field, giving the Astros a 1-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies...
...Philadelphia, Jose Cruz singled home Terry Puhl in the tenth to put the Astros ahead, 4-3. Shortly after, alert pinch-runner Rafael Landestoy scored the eventual winning run from third on a Cesar Cedeno chopper to short. With Cruz on second, and Cedeno on first, Dave Bergman tripled home two more insurance runs...
Every Thursday the women stand in silent protest by the president's palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They don't do much--just hold up photos of missing family members and, looking pleadingly at the pink building, weep. Occasionally the military police of dictator General Jorge Rafael Videla drag the women away to join the ranks of their relatives--the Desaparecidos--the disappeared ones, who are either jailed or killed by the government. But usually the police just watch the women mockingly. "They're crazy," one said. "Everyone knows that...
Argentine President Jorge Rafael Videla has emphatically denied any such involvement, though he said that he viewed the Bolivian military "with much sympathy." Videla did admit to sending food and money-to aid the Bolivian people rather than the military, he explained -"because we do not want in South America what Cuba signifies in Central America." The allusion was curious, considering that the Communists have not fared well in Bolivia since the failure of Che Guevara's 1966-67 effort to launch a people's war there...