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...those very sounds, of course, that made stars of Simon and his best friend from Forest Hills, Queens, Art Garfunkel. Under the "nom de 45" Tom & Jerry, the boys had a minor hit single in 1957, then followed the folk-music trail into the new decade. Oft-told rock legend 192: how a house producer at Columbia Records without Paul's knowledge added electric guitar, drums and bass to an earnest, intimate, acoustic ballad of Simon's; and how The Sounds of Silence, with its new rock underpinnings, became a No. 1 single in 1966. It was a fluke...
...with the government, Nelson Mandela received another dispiriting blow last week. His wife Winnie is to be tried with seven other people for kidnapping and assaulting four young militants on Dec. 29, 1988. One of the victims, a 14- year-old antigovernment activist named James Seipei, who used the nom de guerre "Stompie Moeketsi," was found stabbed to death eight days later. The four had fled the Mandela home after a dispute with members of the so-called Mandela United Football Club, who lived there...
...Francisco the chief irritant is a band of 15 or so perpetrators whose nom de guerre is Those Darn Accordions! and who charge kamikaze-style into restaurants, wreaking indigestion on helpless customers with deafening choruses of Lady of Spain. T.D.A.! even threatened to "play" in city hall but was prevented from doing so when engineers warned that the building might collapse from excessive vibration. Instead, it was the board of supervisors that collapsed. "One of the things I love about San Francisco," said T.D.A. ! accordionist J. Raoul Brody, "is that a bunch of dopes like us can get together...
Under the nom de guerre Commander Zero, Pastora became a revolutionary superstar in 1978 after leading a raid on the National Palace that helped topple the Somoza regime a year later. Partly because he was unhappy with the Sandinistas' growing dependence on Moscow, he quit as Vice Minister of Defense and in 1983 launched a guerrilla war against his former comrades. But he rejected CIA pressure to join the main contra faction and was finally forced to quit fighting...
...killing is largely the result of a struggle throughout much of the Middle East between followers of Abu Nidal (a nom de guerre for Jaffa-born Sabri Khalil al-Banna) and supporters of P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. In southern Lebanon, according to the P.L.O., about 150 F.R.C. followers have died in clashes between the two groups over the past two years...