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Jamieson (2-0) also benefited from four infield double plays, including inning-enders in the third, fifth and sixth. Junior first baseman Erick Binkowski turned the prettiest of the four, snagging Cornell shortstop Raul Gomez's ground ball inside the line, stepping on the bag and then firing to second for the lead S-1runner, a second baseman Andrew Luria...
SWORN IN. LUIS GONZALEZ MACCHI, 52, former Paraguayan pro-basketball player and Senate president; as President of Paraguay; in Asuncion. Macchi took over for impeached President Raul Cubas...
ASSASSINATED. LUIS ARGANA, 66, Vice President of Paraguay; by several gunmen who sprayed his Jeep with bullets and a grenade as it rode through a street in Asuncion, the capital. Supporters of Argana, the leader of an effort to oust President Raul Cubas, blamed Cubas for the killing. Members of parliament immediately voted to begin impeachment proceedings against the President...
...Raul's conviction was supposed to be a sign that Mexico was reforming its authoritarian democracy. But last week there was at least one reminder of how far the nation has to go. While Raul confronted his verdict in a prison cell west of Mexico City, 50 miles away, in a prison called Southside, a tightly wound, closely shorn 34-year-old ex-cowboy named Daniel Aguilar Trevino described a Mexican political system that is still dark, unforgiving and sinister. Aguilar is serving a 50-year term for pumping the fatal bullet into Ruiz Massieu's neck from point-blank...
Which is why, says Aguilar, Raul Salinas approached the group's leaders to abduct Ruiz Massieu. Originally the plan was just for a kidnapping, to silence him--and perhaps to punish him for an acrimonious divorce from Salinas' sister. But in the late summer of 1994, Salinas' men changed the plan: "They said [Ruiz Massieu] was too much of a threat to the Salinases, and that we'd have to kill him. I've never been so shook up as when I heard that...