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Obsessed with secrecy, Castano has given only a handful of press interviews and refused until recently to have his face photographed. Catching up to him involved two plane flights, a muddy drive through banana plantations and finally a speedboat ride through a thunderstorm across the Gulf of Uruba to the Darien Gap, the mountainous rain forest separating Colombia from Panama. Castano was waiting on the beach, surrounded by 30 hulking paramilitaries hidden among giant ceiba trees...
...dressed like Cher and actresses Thea Gill and Michelle Clunie--fresh from filming a lesbian love scene--tricked out as "Texas hookers" with red feather boas. Then there was the pumpkin-carving contest, including one jolly squash accessorized with a...well, put it this way: it's not a banana, and the pumpkin is happy...
Gore campaign manager William Daley, appearing at a rally of 75 Democratic Party lawyers, chanting and waving gloves in the air, calls President-quasi-elect Bush a "banana Republican." He vows to charter "a fleet of 747s" and fly the entire membership of the Trial Lawyers Association to Tallahassee...
FRANCE Liberation: "America awoke Wednesday morning to discover it had no President-elect, and that the Nov. 7 vote was mired in a mixture of banana-republic travesty and suspense worthy of a World Cup final settled by penalty kicks...
...camera to their inability to read a ballot. Hence the sit-ins and demonstrations, the legal action and partisan pressure--in essence, the postelection election campaign. Such maneuvers, intended to alter the result of an election after the balloting, are the kind of spectacle one expects in a banana republic. Win or lose, Gore's threats of protracted political and legal action to overturn unfavorable results constitutes a reckless endangerment of the American constitutional system...