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...Military and police intelligence officers were in touch with both groups, and occasionally they received assistance from right-wing political organizations alarmed by the rising level of anarchy. Out of this explosion of terror came a death squad trademark that is branded forever in the psyche of the nation: mano bianco, a pair of painted hands splattered across a door or wall announcing a fresh kill. The reformist coup of 1979 brought an official end to ANSESAL and ORDEN, but by then most army battalions and police brigades had their own intelligence departments devoted to tracking down and often eliminating...
...manual (around $40) or electric ($250). American Best Coffee, Inc., which added a single pasta machine to its line of espresso machines in 1977, now sells 24 models, ranging in price from $500 to $70,000. Still, many purists prefer the ritual of making pasta fresca, fatt'a mano (freshly made by hand). At classes like the one taught by Arlene Battifarano at Manhattan's New School, flour-smeared students happily echo, "Fold, push, press, turn! Fold, push, press, turn!" as they attack alps of dough. Says Expert Marcella Hazan: "The warmth of the hand makes for elasticity...
...sister with "insufficient resistance to pain of every kind" opts for the lesser agony of suicide. The lonesome cowboy finds purpose only in pursuing Claire, the icy wife of a "vivid . . . piercey-bright, oilman feisty" pseudo-patrón named Tio. The result is McGuane's standard mano á mano struggle in which the prize is less significant than the battle itself...
...political mano a mano pitted Suárez, 47, against Socialist Party Leader Felipe González, 38, who had the temerity to lodge an outright censure motion against a Spanish government for the first time in 44 years. He came far closer to toppling Suárez than even he expected. Although the censure motion was narrowly defeated, by a vote of 166 to 152, the premier was reduced to the support of his own party, the Union of the Democratic Center, by wholesale abstention in the rest of his coalition...
...sipped Maví, a tropical bark drink, and wolfed down alcapurrias (plantain stuffed with meat). As he rode down the main street of Ponce, whistles shrieked from atop the century-old red firehouse and a loudspeaker in a blue van barked to pedestrians: "El quiere saludarte. Dale tu mano." (He wants to say hello. Shake his hand.) They cheered wildly when he grabbed a microphone to yell, ?"Estadidad ahora!"(statehood now). On the next day, he strolled down Calle del Cristo...