Milestones, Dec. 16, 1974

Died. Lucio Cabañas, 37, Mexican guerrilla and folk hero; of wounds suffered in a gun battle with Federates; in the Sierra Madre del Sur above Acapulco. In a seven-year campaign of bank robberies, kidnapings, and slayings, Cabañ⅞as, a Communist, won the sympathy of the dirt-poor marijuana growers of Guerrero state and acquired a mystique reminiscent of Emiliano Zapata.

-Died. Pietro Germi, 60, Italian film director (Divorce—Italian Style; Seduced and Abandoned; Alfredo, Alfredo); of liver disease; in Rome. Germi's Academy Award-winning Divorzio in 1961 was the first of a series of films that marked...

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