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Next day the drama was repeated at Moreno, 24 miles west of the Argentine capital: 14 bodies were uncovered. A city councilman in the working-class suburb of Florencio Varela announced that he believed at least 30 unidentified corpses were buried in his town's cemetery; in Casilda, 160 miles north of Buenos Aires, a lawyer investigating the 1976 disappearance of two Peronist-party activists spoke of ten bodies that might be found there...
...store-bought gifts during the recession, baking cookies for friends instead. This year she is back in the shops. On one trip last week she spent more than $100 on such presents as jewelry and scarves. Dairy Store Manager William Bales and his wife, who live in the Cincinnati suburb of Norwood, are enlarging their gift-giving circle this year. Said he: "The economy has been a little better to us this year. We have caught up on our bills, so we can spend more...
...Washington developments were played out against the background of continued violence in Lebanon. Heavy shelling from Druse positions in the mountains above Beirut airport pinned down U.S. Marines in their bunkers. A French soldier was killed by sniper fire in a Beirut suburb. Sheik Halim Takieddin, a high-ranking Druse holy man, was assassinated in his home in Beirut by a young man who embraced him, then shot him with a silencer-equipped handgun...
...East Germany, the official party newspaper Neues Deutschland published an open letter to Party Leader Erich Honecker last October, deploring both the NATO deployment and the threatened "retaliatory" deployment of new Soviet short-range missiles in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. In the letter, Lutheran clergy and parishioners from a suburb of Dresden declared themselves "horrified by the very thought" of the dual deployment, and urged Honecker to support a Scandinavian call for a European nuclear-free zone. Open criticism of both sides in the missile dispute has become a regular feature of local and district meetings of Protestant churches...
...year, reversing a 20-year decline. Washington State PTA President Mary Ann Laramore notes that four years ago, $3,000 was considered a big budget for a PTA, but today "we're seeing budgets of $10,000 to $12,000." The Smoke Rise Elementary School in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain boasts a lab with 14 Apple II computers, 13 of which were bought by the PTA. The Lafayette parent group in Washington, B.C., which raises $40,000 a year from such projects as a flea market and an international-food festival, not only supports the salaries...