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Most metropolitan police departments will bring in sharpshooters when hostages are involved, partly to keep less trained personnel out of the action. "All you need is one officer on the scene to fire randomly and it could be all over for the hostages," explains San Francisco Police Lieut. Richard Klapp, the city's top hostage expert...
...motives for singling out Galante, crime watchers agree that after being paroled from Lewisburg in 1974, he first gained control of Brooklyn's Joseph Bonanno family, one of the five major Mafia families in New York, then won the respect of the other New York capi. Says Lieut. Remo Franceschini, New York's intelligence chief for organized crime: "Most of the bosses might welcome a new image, a strong figure who would take the heat and let them get on with business." One boss, Aniello Dellacroce, 62, may have other ideas. Known for his own brand of ruthlessness...
...five hours last week, 20,000 dancers, 5,000 camel drivers and 3,500 horsemen gathered in the city of Kaduna for one of the biggest celebrations in the history of northern Nigeria. On hand to watch it were eight visiting heads of state; their Nigerian host, Lieut. General Olusegun Obasanjo; and Andrew Young, Washington's new U.N. ambassador. Concluding his African odyssey, Young reached Nigeria in time to catch the finale of the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture...
...legendary lion. The shooting was shortly followed by an announcement of the execution of Brigadier General Teferi Benti, 55, Ethiopia's chief of state, and eight of his supporters in the Dergue. Significantly, the broadcasts took pains to mention that the two most powerful members of the Dergue, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam and Lieut. Colonel Atnafu Abate, had survived the shooting "safe and sound." Here was a tip-off that the incident was not a coup against the military council itself but more of a power struggle within the Dergue between Mengistu and Atnafu and pro-Benti officers...
...conflict, however, is a power struggle within the Dergue that is slowly reducing its membership and possibly its entrenched position. There were 120 officers on the council when it ousted Haile Selassie; after last week's executions the group numbered only about 60. The previous chief of state, Lieut. General Aman Andom, was shot to death in November 1974 for "resisting arrest." Last July another internal fight led to the execution of Major Sisay Hapte, a high-ranking council member, and several other officials...