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...Soviet T-34 tanks and helicopter gunships and spearheaded by Cubans, then rolled 200 miles beyond Huambo without opposition. The column occupied the major southern city of Sá da Bandeira (renamed Lubango), the Atlantic port of Moçâmedes, and a potential UNITA fallback headquarters at Serpa Pinto, putting them within 150 miles of the South West Africa border and the South African defense line...
...Lidia Serpa, 25, startled the captain, two copilots, stewardess, purser and 51 passengers (including herself) of a Pan American plane flying between Puerto Rico and New York by giving birth to a 6-lb. girl 8,000 ft. over the Atlantic Ocean...
...Martin. At the Circulo last week, some 1,200 wives & daughters of Army officers gathered to honor Eva Duarte de Perón. But they did not don furs & feathers out of love for la Señora. This was a command performance arranged by Doña Ines Serpa de Sosa Molina, wife of Peron's Minister of War, to make up for snubs that Señora Peron has received from the stiff-necked military clique. Evita was pleased...
Last week the royal Rumanian household was told that it could not go to Europe. Indignantly the refurbished suite reserved on the Lisbon-bound Serpa Pinto was canceled. Wailed Madame Udarianu: "The trip was stopped. The trip was stopped." Rumor had it that the U.S. and Britain feared that Carol's return might upset delicate balances in the Balkans. Officially, the trip was off because Madame's health was "uncertain." Gloomily Carol ordered the bags unpacked...