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...wage freeze required to reap the anti-inflationary benefits of the devaluation. Within weeks, all government employees were given a 30% wage hike, and the government "recommended" that private-sector employers grant their workers increases of 10%, 20% or 30% "to restore purchasing power." In a single stroke, Lopez Portillo had wiped out most of the gains of the devaluation that had shaken his administration-and lost much of the prestige of his office. As he dolefully told one audience of Pemex workers: "Today I am a symbol of a devalued presidency...
...whip a ball 98 m.p.h. had given him a 107-71 career mark, a 3.15 earned run average and 1,493 strikeouts in 1,606 innings. After more than nine seasons, Houston Astros Pitcher J.R. Richard was the best righthander in baseball. Then he was felled by a stroke in July 1980. Now 32, Richard, after months of therapy and workouts, is making a comeback. Last week a standing ovation greeted him as he ambled to the mound at tiny City Island Park in Florida to start his first game since the stroke. His team: the Daytona Beach Astros...
DIED. Richard Lockridge, 83, urbane former drama critic who collaborated with his first wife Frances on a series of mysteries from the 1940s to the 1960s; of a stroke; in Tryon, N.C. Their best-known characters were Pam and Jerry North, a sophisticated husband and wife team who unraveled complex crimes on stage, screen, radio and television, while adhering to one of Lockridge's cardinal rules: ''Never pin a murder on the butler...
...Pepper, 56, gifted but tortured jazz musician who established himself as a top alto saxophonist with the Stan Kenton orchestra in the late 1940s and early 1950s and for years waged a war against his drug habit, which he detailed in his 1979 autobiography, Straight Life; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. He once said of his reliance on heroin to relieve his anguish and self-doubt: "If this is what it takes, then this is what I'm going to do, whatever dues I have to pay." During one 16-year period, he marked more time in prison...
DIED. Marie Rambert, 94, grande dame of the British ballet; of a stroke; in London. After dancing with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, where she worked with Nijinsky, the volatile Polish-born teacher in 1926 formed Ballet Rambert, Britain's first ballet company. There the exuberant "Mim" nurtured such choreographers and dancers as Anthony Tudor, Frederick Ashton and Agnes de Mille...