Word: prospero
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...Pope had to overcome if his spiritual mission was to succeed. John Paul's Guatemala stop, scheduled for Monday, ran into trouble when President Efrain Rios Montt ordered the execution of six suspected terrorists, ignoring a last-minute papal plea for clemency. In a message to Guatemalan Bishop Prospero Pernados del Barrio, John Paul confirmed that he still planned to visit Guatemala but condemned the executions. Said the Pope: "I cannot fail to think with immense pain of the recent executions that have taken place in your nation and to invoke divine mercy on all these deceased of this country...
...stiffest punishment yet against the Red Brigades: 32 defendants were given life sentences; the others received prison terms ranging from four months to 30 years (Italy has no death penalty). Among those sentenced to life in prison were Mario Moretti, 36, who masterminded the kidnaping of Moro, and Prospero Gallinari, 33, who shot the Prime Minister with a pistol, then sprayed his body with a submachine...
...stalwarts of the Cornell defense are inside linebackers Mike Scully and Mike Prospero, a pair nearly as impressive as Harvard's Joe Azelby and Andy Nolan...
Jules, a young delivery boy, Hawkins, the temperamental opera superstar, a Vietnamese punk beauty named Alba and her lover, an cerie, Prospero-like figure who seems to know what's going on at all the most confusing moments in the movie--these are the film's principal characters. Assorted punks and thugs from at least two underground crime operations and a corrupt chief of police also join in the fray. And an attractive policewoman, who ends up the saving the day, makes a brief but efficient appearance...
...climax of this two-hour 20-minute odyssey is a series of ecstatic helicopter shots over Lower Manhattan. It is a refreshing vision-like a crème de menthe sipped at twilight in the Windows on the World, 107 stories above the only dream isle our moviemaking Prospero could live in for long or forever...