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DIED. Alvin Childress, 78, who became one of TV's first black stars when he played the philosophical cabby Amos in the 1951-53 video version of Amos and Andy, the 1929-54 radio institution; of pneumonia and other ailments; in Inglewood, Calif. The show succumbed to complaints that its good-natured parody perpetuated racial stereotypes, but it remained popular into the 1960s in syndication...
...wandered aimlessly through broken streets covered with shattered glass. Hardest hit were the city's slums, where wood and adobe shanties simply crumbled. Many victims were children: 30 were buried under the Don Bosco School, southeast of the city, which collapsed just before students were to go home. Reported Radio Commentator Francisco Espinoza: "I've seen bodies that are destroyed, especially of children. Desperate people are digging among the rubble, looking for dead and wounded...
...Salvador's President José Napoleón Duarte declared a state of emergency and issued an appeal for unity. "We'll come out of this, with the efforts and courage of all Salvadorans," Duarte said in a radio address. The magnitude of the disaster produced a rare show of solidarity in a nation torn by a seven-year civil war. In an extraordinary communiqué, the rebel guerrilla force, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, declared a temporary cease-fire...
...actions were part of an Israeli plot to discredit Damascus. The farfetched theme was echoed by Loutof Haydar, Syria's Ambassador to Britain, whom Hindawi has implicated in the El Al scheme. Haydar reportedly dismissed the charge as a "setup to defame Syria." In addition, the state-controlled Damascus Radio charged that U.S. and Israeli agents were responsible for a "wider campaign against Syria...
That skepticism played a key part in Armacost's resignation. As he said last week, a management change was necessary because "external perceptions about the bank have been so eroded by rumor and speculation." Indeed, only a month ago, Armacost bought airtime on California radio stations to discount rumors that the bank was about to ask for federal protection from its creditors. After the executive's resignation announcement, the rumor that former BankAmerica President A.W. Clausen would return circulated along with the news of a weekend meeting of the bank's 15 directors. In Washington, Clausen issued only a firm...