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ADOPTING THE SLOGAN of Tyler's opposition, "Zimmerman flew and Tyler knew," Jimmy proceeds to emblazon it everywhere from the big screen at Shea Stadium to the provebial horse's behind. Each of these public service messages is signed "Turk 1821." Lynch's nom de plume inspired by his brother's nickname and badge number. Clever Jim manages to deface countless subway cars, buses, public monuments, and even Mayor Tyler's own limosine before getting caught...
...bombings. But many Western diplomats in Beirut believe that another Shi'ite organization, called Hizballah (Party of God), might also be holding the Americans. Callers to Western news agencies have claimed responsibility for the abductions in the name of Islamic Jihad, which is believed to be a nom de guerre used by various shadowy Islamic fundamentalist terror groups...
Instead of Panamamans we meet the revolutionary elite of Central America, from Damel Ortega, a member of Nicatagua's ruline runta, to 'Marcial' the nom deguette of the Ho Chi Minh of the Salvadoran revolution In his description of these figures Greene forgets Castro's advice to Torrijos Prudence and caution are precisely what is lacking in his glowing as counts of his meetings with these leaders While Greene clearly shares Torrijos' dream of a social democratic Central America he does not explore the threat that Ortega and Marcial pose to this dream. Marcial, who killed himself last year...
SENTENCED. Peter Theodoracopulos, 45, acid-penned society columnist, earlier for Esquire, now for Vanity Fair, under his well-known nom de plume Taki; to 16 weeks' imprisonment for cocaine possession, after his arrest at Heathrow Airport last month with 23.1 grams of the drug, worth $2,000, in his back pocket; in London. Taki pleaded guilty, but plans to appeal the sentence...
DIED. Gilbert Renault, 79, much decorated hero of France's World War II Resistance, who under the nom de guerre Colonel Rémy organized for Charles de Gaulle the Free French intelligence service, which, among other things, procured German plans for the coastal defenses in Normandy and helped make possible the selection of the Allies' D-day landing sites; of a heart attack; in Guingamp, France. After the war Renault joined, then quit, De Gaulle's political organization, and recounted his adventures in several colorful and popular memoirs...