Word: backups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 54, the exiled former dictator of Nicaragua, climbed into his white Mercedes-Benz 280 limousine along with his chauffeur and a business associate, and drove away from his luxurious villa in a suburb of the Paraguayan capital of Asunción. The limousine, followed by a backup car carrying three bodyguards, had traveled a mere five blocks when a Chevrolet pickup truck pulled up alongside, and unleashed a hail of automatic rifle fire. As the bodyguards returned the fire, a bazooka rocket, launched from the porch of a nearby house, hit the Somoza limousine broadside, tearing away...
...group for a full orchestra, touring has become a nonsexist family affair. Her father, David Manchester, 60, former bassoonist with the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, occasionally hits the road with her, and has been instrumental on Melissa's last two orchestrated pop-rock records. Sister Claudia Cagan, 34, sings backup, and Mother Ruth creates some of her costumes. Manchester, 29, is even getting some help up front: Brother-in-Law Steve Cagan, 34, is her conductor...
Even the organist and the P.A. announcer got into the act, the former establishing a reputation as the best in the majors and the latter bouncing backup catcher John Bocabella's sonorous name off the tiny stadium's cheap steel seats ("Et maintenant, numero 12, Jahn...Boc...a..bellll...
Standout goaltender Betty Ippolito and capable backup Katie Williams return to anchor a defense that had few lapses in '79. Annie Velie leads an experienced midfield corps where only speedy Sarah Chubb, inactive all summer because of illness, is a question mark...
Standout goaltender Betty Ippolito and capable backup Katie Williams return to anchor a defense that had few lapses in '79. Annie Velie leads an experienced midfield corps where only speedy Sarah Chubb, inactive all summer because of illness, is a question mark...