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...break was executed with all the attention to detail and derring-do of a commando raid. Early one evening last week, two well-dressed young men called at the home of Billy Rial Castillo, 30, a Mormon missionary who lives across the street from Montevideo's Punta Carreta federal prison. "We are Tupamaros," said the men as they pulled out pistols and identified themselves as members of the urban guerrilla group that has served as a model for terrorists in many of the world's major cities. "We need this house for an operation." The operation...
...allowing the Tupamaros to move from their third-floor cells to the second and first floors on makeshift ladders of blankets and wood. By the time the break took place, a tunnel had already been dug leading from a ground-floor cell and under the prison wall to the Rial house. Prison officials, who later discovered picks, shovels and heavy-duty drills, said that some of the dirt had been stored in pillowcases and mattresses. But most of the estimated ten tons of earth brought out from the 130-ft. tunnel (about 2 ft. high by 2 ft. wide...
Running Children. Some surgeons question whether instant prosthesis is advisable for elderly, debilitated victims of diabetic or other blood-vessel disease. At Miami's James M. Jackson Memo rial Hospital, on the other hand, Dr. Augusto Sarmiento has used the technique on more than 50 such patients aged 60 and over. Only three patients have needed a second (higher) amputation because of infection or poor circulation. Unlike some other surgeons, Dr. Sarmiento does not believe in leaving a drain tube in the wound, or in putting any padding between the stump and the socket. He wants the snuggest possible...
...since his macabre manuscripts first appeared in London in 1960, and Translator Yuli Daniel, 40, alias "Nikolai Arzhak," in his underground work an equally outspoken short-story writer. In an 18-page indictment, they were charged under Ar ticle 70 of the Russian criminal code with disseminating "slanderous mate rial besmirching the Soviet state and social system...
...through the chill, rainy afternoon, the simple urn containing the ashes of Jean Moulin was on view at the Memo rial to the Victims of the German Labor Camps near Notre Dame Cathedral. Inside the cement crypt glimmered 200,000 crystal rods-one for each Frenchman who died in the Nazi camps...