Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fugitive in Tripoli arranging mercenary support for the Libyan armed forces? Was the murder attempt ordered directly by the Libyan government? Did Tafoya have any real connection to the CIA, as he claims, or only with renegade ex-CIA agent Wilson? As these questions are explored at Fort Collins, Colo., during Tafoya's trial, which could last a month, authorities hope, or perhaps fear, that some light will be shed on the mysterious web spun by Wilson that entangles former CIA officials and Western soldiers of fortune who are giving support to the radical government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi...
When testimony gets under way in the heavily guarded courtroom in Fort Collins, a central question will be whether Libya's World Revolutionary Committee was telling the truth when it initially claimed to have ordered the murder of Faisal Zagallai. If it did, it probably acted through Wilson. This possibility has spurred the Justice Department, CIA and FBI to pursue more aggressively their investigation of the former operative's empire. An interagency task force has been set up to coordinate the case, and the House Intelligence Committee will begin public hearings by the end of the year...
...sign of our times that not only was this valiant leader gunned down but the President of the U.S. could not attend the funeral without endangering his own life. Robert Adams Fort Lauderdale...
...near dawn and La Nativité, a rickety 30-ft. wooden sailboat crammed with 63 Haitian refugees, was bobbing to ward the Florida coast near Fort Lauderdale. Winds of up to 30 m.p.h. lashed the sea, and waves as high as 5 ft. swept over the homemade vessel. Less than 60 yds. from land, La Nativité was suddenly swamped and its passengers spilled into the sea. Only when survivors, dazed and tearful, were spotted wandering the high way near the wealthy town of Hillsboro Beach did residents realize what had happened. Soon police were dragging...
...combat courtroom attacks, the U.S. Marshals Service and other security forces are trying everything from metal detectors and alarm systems to bomb-sniffing dogs. A San Francisco courtroom custom-designed for sensational trials has bullet-resistant glass between the spectators and the court. A few judges in places like Fort Lauderdale and Kansas City, however, have begun taking the law into their own hands. In Old West style, they show up for work packing pistols...