Word: afoul
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Andres Pastrana Arango, a mayoral candidate in Bogota, also ran afoul of the cartel. Two months ago, he was kidnaped from his office and taken, blindfolded, to a hideout near Medellin. After seven days he was released. Police raided the house where he had been held and uncovered a cache of weapons that included more than a dozen U.S.-made AR-15 rifles as well as Austrian-manufactured assault weapons and Israeli Uzi submachine guns. Also found were assorted 9-mm pistols, infrared night-vision scopes and a sniper rifle. "They have the kind of arms you only...
...also home to Fundamentalists who find the 20th century anathema. About 20 miles northeast of the ski resort of Alta, the Singer clan nursed its cheerless fantasies. Founded by John Singer, an American-born TV repairman who spent his formative years in Nazi Germany, the family first ran afoul of the law when Singer pulled his children from school to shield them from the influence of drugs and racial integration. His continued defiance led in 1979 to a siege that ended when police rushed Singer while he was on a trip to his mailbox. He was shot in the back...
Nobody remembers why, but in the early 1970s, the Harvard Lampoon fell afoul of then Councilor--now Mayor--Alfred E. Vellucci. And the semi-secret, social organization that occasionally publishes parodies came to regret...
...Honda and is in constant demand for TV specials and sitcoms. There are a book and a record based on his show, and in January he will begin filming Caddyshack II, a big-budget film about a self-made millionaire who joins a snobbish country club -- only to run afoul of the members when he develops a low-income housing project nearby. In 1987 the comedian will gross well over $1 million...
...historical "nonpersons." Leon Trotsky, an ally of Lenin's who was exiled by Stalin and assassinated by a Soviet agent in 1940, received a brief mention -- but only as a power-hungry schemer "who always vacillated and cheated." More fortunate was Nikolai Bukharin, another close Lenin aide who ran afoul of Stalin and was executed as a spy in 1938. Gorbachev credited Bukharin, who supported Lenin's free market-oriented New Economic Policy and opposed forced collectivization, with helping to frustrate Trotsky's ambitions. Yet Gorbachev felt compelled to cite Lenin's reservations about Bukharin's ideological purity. On that...