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Perhaps it was the atmosphere of the Ali-Frazier championship fight that prompted an excess of macho in Washington. The news trickled out that during the annual Gridiron Club dinner, an evening of ritual satire offered by the capital's newsmen, House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, 57, was decked with one punch in a Statler-Hilton men's room by Indiana Republican (and former Congressman) Edward Mitchell, 60, supposedly because he objected to the abusive cracks that Boggs was making about the Nixon Administration...
...Sosa were U. S,-trained), but most are not close to such a flip-flop. For most young Indian men, the Army offers the only opportunity for dignity and a relatively decent life. Three meals a day, movie lectures at Ft. Gulick, the big PX in the Sky, fascinating, macho, Green Beret instructors, and most importantly, a gun, which any man, even a North American, will respect...
...handful then overlooked the divisions of the Commons people, discounted those who stood against a riot as pigs, and proceeded to their macho trashing. This was a wrong move. What these guys and others have to take into account is, first, that solid riots happen not according to the dreams of the extreme but when masses of people feel a common hostility; second, and this is the main point, trashing, looting and bombing are not to be done indiscriminately and should for the short-term be suspended: although terrorism can serve on occasion as a thermometer in reading just...
...Santo Domingo, while bombs burst and tempers seethed, the elderly diplomat coolly presided over around-the-clock negotiating sessions that ultimately produced not only a stable, non-Communist government but one of the few free elections in Hispaniola's history. Dominicans nicknamed him "El Pato Macho" (the gutsy duck). "He showed up on the palace steps every morning," says Lyndon Johnson with undisguised admiration, "and held that government together with his bare hands...
...politicos and cajole them into signing a ceasefire. Later he served as mediator during the cliff-hanging months before President Joaquín Balaguer's inauguration. Bunker's patience won him the esteem of all Dominican factions save the pro-Communist Castroites, who called him El Pato Macho del Mangoneo (The Top Banana of Machinations). Said Rebel Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deño: "I have the respect for that man that I have for my own father." Caamaño's archrival, General Antonio Imbert Barreras, agreed...