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...beginning of the end for the forces of Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza. After the Sandinistas seized power, the movie-handsome guerrilla became an almost legendary symbol of the successful struggle. Whenever he appeared in public, crowds would break into spontaneous applause for the man they called by his nom de guerre: Comandante Cero (Commander Zero...
...needed. The children were grown: Jim was a vet in my office, and Rosie was a doctor a few miles away. My evenings were my own, and I had no excuse for putting it off. I sat before the TV set and began typing my stories." His nom de plume came from a televised soccer player; his ideas from old notebooks. The first version was not promising. "What I turned out was like the essays of Macaulay. Awful. A simple style takes a lot of work...
Jocelyn Davey is the nom de plume of Chaim ("Rab") Raphael, who has been an Oxford don, a Foreign Office functionary and spokesman for the Treasury, and is as volubly at home in the fleshpots of North America as he is among the ar cane outer reaches of literature, music and art. It is no secret that Ambrose Usher is modeled on Sir Isaiah Berlin, the high-wattage Oxford intellectual, government adviser and nonstop conversationalist. Sir Isaiah is 71. The ebullient Ambrose, of course, has the fictional hero's privilege of suspended birthdays. Or else cloak and mortarboard...
...guerrilla army operating under the F.M.L.N. umbrella. Cayetano owes his survival to his emphasis on security. Before their amalgamation with the other groups a year ago, Cayetano and his subordinates wore hoods so that they were not known even to each other. Cayetano himself was known only by his nom de guerre, Marcial. British Author Graham Greene, who pleaded unsuccessfully with Cayetano last summer to spare the life of a kidnaped. South African diplomat, said of him: "His eyes, they are hard. I wouldn't like to be his prisoner...
...months later, Pauline launched her own column in the San Francisco Chronicle, her nom de plume taken from Abigail in the Book of Samuel ("And blessed be thy advice") and President Martin Van Buren. Landers was miffed, to say the least. The sisters hardly spoke for several years. Coos Abby now: "We're so close." Admits a candid Landers: "If anyone had written to me with the problem, I would have said 'Forgive and forget.' " Despite the rift, both columnists flourished, piling up readers on five continents, giving opinions on everything from Thai singles bars...