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...Gimme that ole rainbow spirit.' 'Mel King para alcalde.' --Chants of King Supporters
...candidate, who said he is trying to smile more, appeared downright jubilant at the parade, where he was followed by about 30 supporters, who alternately chanted. "Gimme that ole rainbow spirit"--a reference to the King campaign's description of its voting coalition--and "Mel King para alcalde [for mayor...
...come to final judgment in the six-man Standing Committee, a band of old wartime veterans dominated by Deng Xiaoping. He does not hold China's highest titles (he is chairman of both the party and government military commissions), but there is no doubt that he is the "para mount leader." Deng is a tiny man (approximately 5 ft. tall), half elf, half gunman; at 79 he is China's foremost pragmatist and is engagingly candid. A brilliant youngster who graduated from high school at 15, he went off to France after World War I as a student...
Dalla Chiesa's death robbed Italy of its most charismatic para-military leader in years. The 62-year-old general had just come off a brilliantly successful campaign against the Red Brigades terrorist network in Rome when he was named prefect of Palermo last April. No better choice could have been made for this mission impossible--to fight the Sicilian Mafia on its own turf--than the selection of Dalla Chiesa. Having vanquished the kidnappers of U.S. Gen. James Dozier and the killers of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, Dalla Chiesa stood for everything efficient, uncorrupted and powerful in Italian...
...para-military thing should scare us all. It's easy to be taken in by the Guardian Angels, the citizens' patrol group that recently arrived in Boston. Founded several years ago by Curtis Sliwa, the Angels sought to restore some of the security that was missing from the New York City subway system. The movement has since grown nationwide...