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...government are an estimated 3,000 guerrillas from four main Marxist factions, which receive some weapons and training from Cuba. Their strategy: isolate the capital and seize parts of outlying departments. The guerrillas are concentrating their propaganda and recruiting activities in areas inhabited by the country's poverty- stricken Mayan Indians, who make up roughly half of the total population...
...stomach ailment attacked at loast 75 Quincy House residents March 4 and 5. prompting initial speculation that the cause was food contamination. However, Wacker said food and stool cultures taken from the stricken students turned out negative, adding that similar cases were seen both before and after the mysterious outbreak, and that the disease was also found at several Houses...
...least 75 Quincy House residents were stricken with a mysterious virus last week which brought in its wake vomiting and diarrhea. Although initially food poisoning was suspected. UHS officials diagnosed the ailment as some kind of virus...
...Soon Nixon called. I must not remember our encounter that evening as a sign of weakness, he said. How strange is the illusion by which men sustain themselves! This evening when he had bared his soul I saw a man of tenacity and resilience. And so I told the stricken President that if I ever spoke of the evening, it would be with respect. He had honored me by sharing with me his last free night in the White House. He had conducted himself humanly and worthily...
...Thoroughbred horse breeder and art collector, Whitney was an active philanthropist who gave away about $1 million a year. A man who savored the amenities and comforts his achievements easily afforded him, he never flaunted his wealth ($200 million at his death). Demanding in 1946 that his name be stricken from the Social Register, he said, "If you willingly go along with such a travesty of democracy as the Register, you tacitly subscribe to its absurd notions...