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Somoza has accomplished that. Last November, in a clash with National Guard troops, the Sandinistas' secretary-general, Carlos Fonseca Amador, 40, was killed en route to a meeting, laid out under a mango tree and photographed; his fingertips were then sliced off for exact identification. Other ranking leaders of the leftist rebel movement have also been killed. Last month, in an unpublicized trial in Managua, 36 captured guerrillas and 74 of their compatriots who were tried in absentia drew sentences ranging from 18 months to 129 years in prison...
...meet with Henry Kissinger last year, but promised Young his support "in his great task of bridging the wide gulf between the U.S. and Africa." Explaining the Nigerians' warmth toward him, Young said with a grin: "Nigeria is arrogant and Kissinger is arrogant, and so there was a clash. I may be just as arrogant, but I can control it better." Later he added, "They're anxious for a new start, and that's what I'm looking...
...received that accolade two years ago, will join the society's ranks come the season finale. "Brian is a real student of the game, has tremendous concentration, and is one of the best Harvard goalies in recent memory," says the season ticket holder who rarely misses a Crimson home clash...
...around two sinister triangles: one, a quasi-homosexual link between the tungsten boss, the boss's sword-cane, and Glenn Ford (the other, between Rita Hayworth, the Tungsten boss (who marries her), and Ford (who has had a bitter affair with her and becomes the boss's lieutenant). The clash of the two triangles nearly destroys all three of them, and makes possible the emergence of the movie's real theme, the relation between sexuality and power. Gilda is extremely similar in its tone and its themes to another favorite of mine, Orson Welles's The Lady from Shanghai...
...many Harvard students the clash was between the Super Bowl and homework. Most took advantage of commercials to work; others set aside their work and gathered their friends to settle down to the event watched by almost as many Americans as any other...