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...that security has been mustered every working day for the past 15 months in the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, where the longest trial in California history is expected to go to the jury next week. The case involves the so-called San Quentin Six,* who are accused of taking part in a 1971 prison breakout attempt that left Black Militant Convict George Jackson dead, along with three guards and two inmate trusties. Their trial may well mark the final effort to exorcize the specter of Jackson from the Marin courthouse. In 1970 the same building...
What is a cultivated, conservative man from Metropolitan Mutual doing in a place like that? The fact is that Lambeth is delicious and Muhlbach is bored. He would not put it quite that way but Señor Rafael Lopez y Fuentes, a Honduran diplomat does. Lopez is a captivatingly unctuous minor character whom Lambeth has lightly discarded. He does more than take pleasure in trying to warn Muhlbach about the hazards of playing with wildfire; he takes him to see Double Honeymoon, a porn movie in which the girl has a rather animated part. Only her death (she either...
...stopped under the generals; at least 350 people have died since they took over. Most observers agree that the guerrillas have been hit hard by the security forces, but they can still hit back. Last week guerrillas kidnaped Colonel Juan Alberto Pita, a friend of President Jorge Rafael Videla and the recently appointed government referee in the powerful General Confederation of Labor...
Died. Ernest A. (Ernie) Nevers, 72, thundering Hall of Fame fullback at Stanford, an early star for the Duluth Eskimos (1926-27) and Chicago Cardinals (1929-31) and holder of the alltime single-game scoring record for professional football (40 points); of kidney disease; in San Rafael, Calif. Nevers also pitched professionally for the St. Louis Browns from 1926 to 1928. His coach at Stanford, Glenn ("Pop") Warner, once compared him to the legendary Jim Thorpe by saying, "Nevers could do anything Thorpe could do, and Ernie always tried harder...
After 25 years in the States, he and his wife have simply decided that "it is time to go back." The continental connection gives people like Nelson Ortiz and Rafael Cruz-as well as Rafael Hernández and Carlos Romero-time and choices...