Word: moro
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...Yehudit Ronen, a scholar of Libyan affairs from the Tel Aviv-based Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. "Gaddafi has his arm everywhere." Revolutionary movements backed by Gaddafi have ranged from the Palestine Liberation 0rganization to the Irish Republican Army, from Basque and Corsican separatists to the Moro National Liberation Front in the Philippines. He runs a dozen or more training camps for guerrilla warfare, with advisers supplied by East Germany and Cuba, and is reported to have a slush fund of $1 billion a year for terrorist activities alone. He allegedly tried four times to have Sadat...
While trying to quash a revolt in the Philippines in 1904, American troops discovered that their .38-cal. revolvers were not very effective against the frenzied attacks of Moro tribesmen. The call went out for a handgun with "stopping power," and in 1911, the U.S. issued the Colt .45-cal. automatic to its men. Now, after 70 years of service, the Army plans to retire the legendary .45-as well as the .38-cal. revolver -and replace them both with a new 9-mm model...
...from those on the VOA or England's BBC World service. This new sophistication, however, does not exclude an unfounded allegation here and there. Soviet media actively spread the word, for example, that the U.S. was responsible for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of former Italian Premier Aldo Moro. In addition, events often have to be filtered through an ideological bureaucracy before they are reported. For example, news of the death of former Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin was withheld for 36 hours by TASS and Radio Moscow. Even Soviet citizens heard the news first on Western broadcasts...
Last fall Moro's advertising agency, Manhattan-based David, Oksner & Mitchneck,. started a campaign to sell Don Diego smokes. Called "A Man and His Cigar," the ads are testimonials from stogie-chomping chairmen of the board...
Iacocca, however, struck a hard bargain. He did not receive any payment for posing,, but demanded that the cigarmaker name its newest product after his Chrysler Imperial, which was relaunched last year (current price: $18,311). Moro every now and then sends the Chrysler chairman a few boxes of the jumbo-sized, 7¼-in. Imperial cigars (cost: $46.25 a box). But Iacocca has not changed his taste in cigars even for the extra publicity. His longtime favorite brand is Cuban Montecristo...