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...Sandinista and 500 rebel soldiers. In the first significant battle since last March, dozens were left dead and at least 100 were wounded. There was also confirmation last week of two contra ambushes in central Nicaragua during the first week of November that killed ten people, including Alfonso Nunez Rodriguez, a prominent Sandinista peasant organizer...
...Express has got into the act of dispensing tapes. The array of new outlets is bringing lower prices, wider selection and greater convenience for consumers, but it is also beginning to squeeze out many of the mom-and-pop operators. "A little fellow's got no chance," says Larry Rodriguez of Salinas, Calif., who lost a $40,000 investment last year when his son's video shop failed because of the tough competition...
...George Bush admitted that he had twice met Max Gomez, one of two Cuban Americans whom Hasenfus identified as CIA agents in charge of contra supply missions from El Salvador's Ilopango air base, from which the downed plane had flown. Bush called Gomez, whose real name is Felix Rodriguez, a "patriot" who was advising El Salvador in its war with Marxist guerrillas...
...would-be assassins were suspected of being members of the shadowy Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, which U.S. State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb described as a "Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization with links to the Chilean Communist Party." An armed leftist insurgency emerged in Chile only three years ago. Last month Chilean authorities claimed to have uncovered a huge arms cache that rebels had smuggled into the northern part of the country. A Washington diplomat says the finding of the weapons, together with the assassination attempt, indicates the leftists have decided "to up the ante...
...sort of an old fogy's Ryder Cup pitting the Yanks against the world. Palmer and Gene Littler were paired against Player and New Zealander Bob Charles. The course buzzed with hole-in-one fables. The P.G.A. Tour believed Palmer's feat to be unique, though Chi Chi Rodriguez claimed as many as five in six weeks. Miller Barber said, "Oh sure, I've won four or five automobiles over the years." Billy Casper was undecided whether his best was in Okinawa, where all Japan carried him off on its shoulders, or Boise, when he skipped the ball over...