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...comic relief. Crockett, for instance, was an ex-college football star with a wife suing him for divorce and a "funny" pet alligator named Elvis. Two mid- season changes were crucial. The alligator, along with most of the comic relief, was dropped. And a riveting new character, the brooding Lieut. Castillo (played with remarkable power by Emmy Nominee Edward James Olmos), joined the show. Castillo, Tubbs and Crockett bear less resemblance to other cop-show protagonists than to classic western heroes--men, in the words of Critic Robert Warshow, whose "melancholy comes from the 'simple' recognition that life is unavoidably...
...most driven performer on the show, however, may be Olmos, who plays the stone-faced Lieut. Castillo. The Los Angeles-born actor won a Tony nomination in 1979 for his supporting role in the play Zoot Suit and produced and starred in the 1983 film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. He has an unusual nonexclusive contract with the series, which enables him to do other work during the season. Yet Olmos approaches his role with almost mystical dedication. "One of the things I have found most exciting about Miami Vice is that they have allowed me to play this character...
...wake of the tragedy, the entire country was stunned into shock and silence. Proclaiming a day of national mourning, Bangladesh's President, Lieut. General Hussain Mohammad Ershad, postponed a planned state visit to China and hurried to Urirchar. After traveling through winds so fierce that his helicopter had to land before continuing, the President gave drinking water and biscuits to a few children, handed out clothes and looked on as bodies were buried. He could find no words adequate to the tragedy. "The devastation," he said simply, "is beyond description...
...week's end the Ghanaian leader, Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, denounced the expulsions as well as "the reported incidents of brutality perpetrated . . . against Ghanaians and other nationals." By that time the pressure had eased somewhat, and 4,000 to 5,000 people a day were being permitted to leave Nigeria. But thousands still remained...
...leaders, Ghana's Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 37, and Burkina Faso's Paratroop Captain Thomas Sankara, 35, are striving to reverse years of economic decline, corruption and injustice. In this, they represent a large improvement over men who have given black African leadership the image of brutality and profligacy. Idi Amin, for instance, ruled Uganda with blood and bluster from 1971 to 1979, and Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the self-proclaimed "Emperor" of the Central African Republic, held his country in terror between 1966 and 1979, flogging and mutilating his opponents...