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When Terpil and Wilson ordered him to procure a lightweight guided antiaircraft missile for Libya, Mulcahy balked. In the firm's files he found startling evidence of international terrorism-for-hire, including a plan to train and equip hitmen in the Libyan desert. Mulcahy quit and went to the authorities. The Government's investigation of Terpil and Wilson was frustratingly slow. But Mulcahy, often obliged to live in hiding and disguise, persevered, talking for hundreds of hours to federal investigators and providing them with incriminating documents taken from Wilson's office...
...Palermo, who had arrived in May to spearhead the government's efforts to clean up the Sicilian Mafia. The day before, Dalla Chiesa, 62, and his bride of less than two months, Emanuela Setti Carraro, 32, were slain in downtown Palermo during an ambush by presumed Mafia hitmen...
...Director Sharad Patel has felt free to turn this biopic into a minstrel show of atrocity. Amin struts across his domain like Kong with a salad of Day-Glo medals pinned to his chest. Amin expels Asian workers from Uganda and distributes the spoils to his private army of hitmen. Amin services an interracial harem. Amin juggles the lives of Arab radicals and Jewish captives at Entebbe airport. Amin eats the flesh of an honest judge he has ordered killed. Perhaps Patel too lovingly details the baroque torture, and Joseph Olita's unsteady command of the acting craft often...
Subsequently, Newton decided that the man could have been Ali Chafic, one of the team of alleged Libyan hitmen believed to be planning to kill President Ronald Reagan or other high American officials. Newton made that identification after studying a drawing of Chafic circulated by the U.S. Government...
...assassinate President Reagan and other high federal officials took a more ominous turn last week. Intelligence officials grilling an informant about the plot are now impressed by the amount of detail he provided about the training and equipping of Libyan assassination teams. The informant claimed that five Libyan hitmen had already entered...