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pulco. People in Acapulco were calm and dining in restaurants late Friday.
• Earlier Friday, Carlotta had toppled billboards and shattered some windows in Puerto Escondido, a laid-back port popular with surfers, where it reached land as a Category 1 hurricane.
• "The wind is incredible and the trees are swaying so much. A window just shattered," said Ernesto Lopez, a 25-year-old engineer who was visiting Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca state for a graduation.
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40 years later, Watergate still mystifies: How did 'third-rate burglary' topple a president?
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the perfect hindsight of history, Watergate's "what ifs" are still tantalizing.
• What if a security guard hadn't noticed tape on a door latch outside Democratic headquarters at the Watergate office building.
• What if a calculating president hadn't taped his private words for posterity?
• And perhaps most intriguing: What if Richard Nixon had simply come clean about the break-in and cover-up and apologized?
• Forty years of investigation, reporting, trials, debate and historical research have yielded no simple answer to the central riddle of how a clumsy raid that Nixon's spokesman termed a "third-rate burglary" became a titanic constitutional struggle that ultimately expelled him from office.
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