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...veterans of that rogues' gallery, Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi, have survived attempts at what is known in spookspeak as "termination with extreme prejudice." In the early 1960s the CIA concocted exotic poisons and hired Mafia hit men in a bizarre and feckless murder plot against the Cuban leader. In 1986 Ronald Reagan hurled squadrons of fighter-bombers at Libya, and White House aides privately hoped at least one bomb would have Gaddafi's name...
...Gigante, who has carefully avoided spilling any secrets about his long career with the Genovese family. Gigante has a rap sheet going back four decades, with arrests for bookmaking, gambling, receiving stolen goods and handgun possession. In most cases the charges were dropped or reduced, but in the early 1960s Gigante served five years in prison on drug charges, along with then godfather Vito Genovese. He apparently resolved to avoid the slammer: before this May, Gigante was arrested only once more, in 1970 on charges of trying to bribe the entire police force of Old Tappan, N.J. Gigante...
...Green's critics are also trying to demonize its best-known proponent: state assemblyman Tom Hayden, co-founder of the 1960s New Left organization Students for a Democratic Society, who they claim wants to be the first elected to the powerful job of environmental advocate. One group of Big Green opponents is airing radio spots in which a woman sarcastically intones, "Hey, call it what it really is: the Hayden initiative. You know -- Tom Hayden." The forces arrayed against Big Green say their funding comes from California agricultural, chemical and business sources. But the proposal's supporters charge that pesticide...
...issue, tinged with prejudice and artifice, is as old as theater. In Shakespeare's day, Othello was acted by whites -- and Olivier played the Moor - in blackface in the 1960s. In old Hollywood, where nonwhites were nonstars, Caucasians often played Oriental roles. Marlon Brando kowtowed through The Teahouse of the August Moon; John Wayne did a Genghis Khan job on The Conqueror; no Chinese ever played Charlie Chan. As recently as 1984, Linda Hunt won an Oscar playing a half-Chinese man in The Year of Living Dangerously...
...song, updated by the Beatles in the early 1960s,' changes the original lyrics from, "Stop, oh yes, wait a minute Mr. Postman, wa-a-a-it Mr. Postman," to "Oh yeah, wait a minute Mr. Hussein, Kuwait isn't yours Mr. Hussein...