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...says his intention is both to train Latin American counterrevolutionaries for six weeks, at a cost of $600 to $700 each, and to rekindle the belligerent anti-Castro spirit of Florida's Cuban community. By Gonzalez's own admission, that second goal has been something of a dud, since would-be Cuban-American patrons have been slow in rallying to his cause. Complains Gonzalez: "They are too comfortable...
...hurled a grenade into the crowd. The grenade landed at the feet of Abu Ghazala but failed to explode. A second grenade hit the face of Major General Abdrab Nabi Hafez, the Armed Forces Chief of Staff, who was also sitting near Sadat, but it too was a dud. The grenade thrower dashed back to the truck. grabbed an automatic weapon from the seat, turned again and began firing as he charged toward the stand. The three other uniformed men jumped from the back of the vehicle to join him, sprinting toward the dais and unleashing a torrent of automatic...
Assuming, then, that anyone who ever liked "Satisfaction" will find this album entertaining (with the exception of a Latin-influenced dud on side two called "Heaven"), we return to the question of how the immoderate Stones fan justifies his excitement over Tattoo You. The answer is that even if the Stones usually turn to 12-bar blues in the clinch and even if some of their better riffs make multiple appearances from record to record, they have managed to hold onto the strange fusion of ironic distance and electrifying enthusiasm that first fascinated listeners in the Sixties...
Until a month ago, it seemed as though the summer of 1981 would prove a foreign travel dud. But suddenly the airlines and travel agencies are being flooded with inquiries. In recent weeks, the number of passports issued by the State Department has jumped nearly 14% over the number issued during the same period last year. "There was a very slow start this year, but business has been picking up speed," says Jonathan Linen, head of American Express's travel division. "Now people are flocking to the gates...
...progress, his luck seemed to hold again: if the gunman's arm had been jostled even a hair, if the angle of the slug's deflection off the President's seventh rib had been minutely sharper, if the Devastator bullet had not been a dud . . . Of course, one can argue it the other way: if the assassin's arm had been jostled, he might have missed Reagan entirely...