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...sidewalk Romeos of Rome are among the world's most aggressive. Known locally as "pappagalli" (parrots) for their incessant and provocative chatter ("Eh, bella, you speaka English? Wanna spaghetti? I give you little spaghetti, huh?"), they trail women tourists through the Via Veneto, along the Spanish Steps, and around the Fountain of Trevi. Gabbing often gives way to grabbing, and the pappagalli are adept at supplementing their spiels with patting, pinching and poking...
Boumediene has a host of enemies, who disagree with the direction in which he has taken Algeria's revolution since he overthrew Ahmed ben Bella...
...government ordered a nationwide manhunt for a list of civilian plotters that included Boumediene's Labor Minister Abdelaziz Zerdani. Flamboyant but Uneducated. Tensions between Boumediene and his army chief had been building ever since the two men combined their forces to overthrow the demagogic Ahmed ben Bella in June 1965. Zbiri, 37, a flamboyant but uneducated Berber tribesman who had fought against the French as a guerrilla chieftain, was a believer in the purity of the revolution and all its impossible promises of socialist equality and prosperity...
...distrusted the dour pragmatism of Boumediene, 42, who methodically dismantled the chaotic collective farms and factories set up by Ben Bella in favor of a system of state capitalism that at least forestalled the collapse of all production. His distrust grew to resentment as Boumediene filled his Cabinet with technocrats. The resentment turned to outright rebellion when the President began easing the old guerrilla chiefs out of their army commands and installing officers with solid professional military training in their places...
...Grateful Recognition." Now, nearly two years later, De Bella has yet to see a cent of his inheritance. The will leaving everything to him naturally also disinherited a number of relatives. One, Mrs. Elise Baldwin, sister to Alice Atwood, is contesting the new will. Also contesting is Miss Atwood's lawyer, Thomas Hart Fisher, who came up with the news that an earlier will had left the estate to him "in grateful recognition of the many years during which he has been my friend, counselor and attorney." Fisher contends that the new will is invalid since Miss Atwood...