Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cleveland band she fronts called the Barbusters; and her enemy is Mom (Gena Rowlands), who drives Patti bats with her meddling, consuming love. Patti seceded from the family when she had a son out of wedlock. "I wanted something she had no part of," Patti tells her brother Joe (Michael J. Fox). Joe, the Barbusters' lead guitarist, is peacemaker in the Rasnick war, but sometimes he feels like a hostage to both sides. And in this family, one of the warring parties will have to die for the other to surrender...
...Beirut two weeks ago and helped set off the recent rash of abductions. Some German officials fear that giving in to U.S. pressure for speedy extradition of Hamadei could lead to more West German kidnapings. Still, the Germans last week arrested Abbas Ali Hamadei, 30, the suspect's brother, at the Frankfurt airport...
...Sandinistas decided the best thing to do was to send Sam Hall back home. Two months ago Hall, 49, the brother of Ohio Congressman Tony P. Hall, was arrested outside an air force base near Managua with hand-drawn maps and sketches of military installations hidden in his socks. He was promptly accused of spying. The self-styled mercenary, described by former colleagues as having a Rambo complex, claimed that he was the sole surviving member of an anti-Communist fighting force called the Phoenix Battalion...
Unmollified, a crowd of 3,000 blacks marched down Fifth Avenue with banners expressing anger over Howard Beach. "We are all angry, we are all oppressed!" cried Chris Griffith, brother of the dead man. To antagonists on both sides, Howard Beach is now a kind of battle cry. Two blacks reported last week that they had been attacked by a gang of white youths shouting "Howard Beach!" and two whites reported a similar attack by similarly chanting blacks...
...were indeed demanding a hostage-for-prisoner swap. Suspicion immediately centered on the radical Shi'ite organization Hizballah (Party of God), to which Hamadei is thought to be linked. A West German radio station, quoting an unnamed Christian source in Beirut, said the abductions were planned by Hamadei's brother Abdul, who is thought to be a Hizballah security officer...