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...Angeles Dodger Pitching Ace Fernando Valenzuela, 20, looked confused, it may simply have been that like some Washington Senators, he was wondering whether Ambassador to Mexico John Gavin, 49, a former actor, had a good grip on the situation. The Mexican-born Valenzuela certainly knows every stitch on a baseball, as his 9-4 record attests. At the White House, where he helped welcome visiting Mexican President José López Portillo, the beer-fueled screwballer seemed to wish he were high and outside. Said Valenzuela: "All this attention doesn't bother me. I have four days...
...motorcycle toss a bomb at an army staff car and speed away through the streets of Madrid: three people are killed in the blast, and a fourth, Lieut. General Joaquin Valenzuela, head of King Juan Carlos' personal guard, is badly wounded. Another high-ranking officer, General Andrés González de Suso, is gunned down at pointblank range outside his apartment in the capital, and a policeman dies in the ensuing chase. Almost simultaneously, two Civil Guards are murdered by terrorists in a Barcelona bar. The final toll: seven dead and 14 injured, most of them innocent...
...government said that the bombing of Valenzuela's staff car was carried out by members of ETA, the Basque separatist organization responsible for most of the political terrorism in Spain. ETA confirmed it had carried out the attack. The other two incidents were suspected to mark the re-emergence of the October 1 Antifascist Resistance Group (GRAPO), a mysterious organization described by the authorities as ultraleftist, that has surfaced sporadically in recent years. In the gun battle that followed González de Suso's assassination, police wounded and captured Emilio Gomez Gomez, 28, allegedly a member...
...Houston Astros, with the National League's best pitching staff in 1980, managed to win just seven of their first 19 games in 1981, while giving up 50 runs. That was two more games than a pudgy 20-year-old marvel for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Fernando Valenzuela, won all by himself (see box). But then, Valenzuela gave up only one run in his 45 innings. His team won 14 of its first 19. Oh joy! Chicago's Cubs lost...
...Valenzuela, meanwhile, things are still going over the Montreal Expos--Valenzuela, who has pitched four shutouts and six complete games...