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...similar fixation has led Reagan to embrace the Contras, a fledgling troup of former Somocista national guardsmen. Much as Wilson hung around with bad company because of his personal grudge with the Huertistas--at one point he even supported Pancho Villa--so Reagan's disgust with the Sandinistas has fogged his presumed better judgment and led to his cozy embrace of a contra-band of ex-Somoza thugs...
...patience has paid off. This week, a month after being published in English, it becomes the first novel by a Mexican to be a best seller in the U.S. An imagined tale about a love triangle involving the American writer Ambrose Bierce, Schoolteacher Harriet Winslow and an officer in Pancho Villa's army during the 1910 Mexican revolution, Gringo has already been optioned for the movies by Jane Fonda, who plans to portray Winslow. How is Fuentes, currently in residence at Harvard, enjoying success north of the border? "You don't have too much time to stop...
Townshend also frames a story called "Pancho and the Baron" with a similar kind of dull shlock. This is pretty mean of ol' Pete, since he knows that all his readers really want is juicy anecdotes about...
Sixteen years since his only victory, Andretti will start the 69th Indy 500 from the second row, just behind Pole-Sitter Pancho Carter and just ahead of Unser. Sons Al Unser Jr. and Michael Andretti will follow in the fourth and fifth rows of brilliantly painted cars scattered three abreast across the asphalt track. A circus kind of calling, racing regularly summons more than one generation of the same family, though these are the only fathers and sons who have ever raced together at Indianapolis. In his christening two years ago, Al Jr., 23, brought a smile to the speedway...
...test pilots that NASA gets for its guinea pigs are not true leads in the field. When recruiters go to Edwards Air Force Base to lure the flyers into becoming astronauts types who can't even get the respect of the waitress at Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club. When they approach the ringleader, Chuck Yeager, he laughs and calls it work for a lab animal...