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...agents in Miami, acting on the request of the Salvadoran government, ar rested Hans Christ, 30, a Salvadoran businessman, for possible extradition in connection with the murders. His arrest followed the seizure in El Salvador a week earlier of Ricardo Sol Meza, 35, a wealthy industrialist and, significantly enough, part owner of the San Salvador Sheraton. The arrests were based in part on the testimony of a hotel waitress who had witnessed the murders...
...principle commercial activity centers on Calle de la Pricessa and Avenida de Jose Antonio, south of which lies a maze of twisting alleys lined by innumerable restaurants. This is the Madrid you see in brochures, the old part of town that converges on Plaza Mayor and Plaza del Sol. This part of the city brings the reality of Spain somewhat closer to the idealized conception: Here you can sit down to a meal of paella, the music of guitars in the distance, and know you're not in America any more...
...decision seemed to be at odds with the court's "anti-press" image. Its author, Chief Justice Warren Burger, is known to dislike television. Moreover, in a 1965 case the Supreme Court overturned the conviction for swindling of Financier Billie Sol Estes at a notorious trial where the presence of cameras had apparently affected jurors and witnesses...
Even as Begin was en route to New York, U.S. Ambassador James Leonard, deputy to Carter's special Middle East envoy Sol Linowitz, shuttled between Jerusalem and Cairo trying to nail down a "memorandum of understanding" among Egypt, Israel and the U.S. The White House fears that unless the progress achieved so far in the negotiations is closely defined in writing, momentum for further progress may dry up before the Reagan Administration can resume the initiative. Talks on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza Strip are scheduled to resume in Cairo this week, but only at the nonministerial...
...DIED. Sol Lesser, 90, movie pioneer who produced more than 100 films and conceived the idea for a rating system that culminated in the current G, PG, R and X movie designations to guide audiences; in Hollywood. Son of a nickelodeon operator, Lesser was responsible for such features as the 1922 Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan, and the Academy Award-winning 1951 documentary Kon-Tiki...