Word: grillo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colonel Tony Callan," had ordered 13 of his own men shot; Andrew McKenzie, 25, Georgiou's second in command, who had helped execute the men; John Derek Barker, 35, another Briton; and Gearhart. The other nine, including two Americans, Gary Acker, 21, of Sacramento, Calif., and Gustavo Grillo, 27, of Jersey City, got sentences ranging from 16 to 30 years in prison...
...Angolan people during the recent civil war. Ten of the defendants were British, including the notorious Costas Georgiu, 25, also known as "Colonel Callan." In addition there were three Americans−Daniel Gearhart, 34, of Kensington, Md., Gary Acker, 21, of Sacramento, Calif., and Argentine-born Gustavo ("Gus") Grillo, 27, a resident of Jersey City...
...most colorful and cooperative defendant was Grille, a former Marine sergeant in Viet Nam, who told the tribunal that he had once worked as a bodyguard for a bookmaker ("who probably pays taxes to the Mafia") before his service with the F.N.L.A. in Angola. Grillo willingly propagandized against his adopted country. "The part of American society I come from," he said, "was a monster, full of power seekers and status seekers, with lots of drugs and so on. In New York they have restaurants for dogs while people die in the streets of cold and hunger...
...vote in Boston and have no stake in DiCara's campaign but he hardly needs an amateur version of hack reportage. Peace, Jean Bergantini Grillo...
...Grillo's attempt to interpret my racial or ethnic views--or even, in fact, my ethnic origin--on the basic of a place of relatively straight reporting is puzzling to me. To answer her points in order: 1) The listing of DiCara's strengths was an almost verbatim paraphrase of the listing given me by his campaign manager. Grillo cleverly omits one-third of the listing: the word "liberal," which is ordinarily taken to refer to a candidate's political beliefs. 2) My listing of DiCara's appearance was not a slur, but merely an observation that...