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...generation, but one of the best performers working today. His characters are fueled by a highly controlled intensity. Playing the teacher in Stand and Deliver or Lieut. Castillo in Miami Vice, he holds in his energy, radiating it through a laser-beam stare. He is every minority rebel putting his fireworks on a long fuse. In a few roles -- the strutting El Pachuco in Zoot Suit or the crazed, canine avenger in Wolfen -- Olmos cuts loose and explodes with more than his eyes. Nostrils flare, teeth flash, the body language becomes incendiary...
...dismissed suit, which has been followed feverishly by activists on the left and right, was filed on behalf of Journalists Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey, who claimed that the 1984 bombing of a press conference held by Nicaraguan Rebel Leader Eden Pastora Gomez was the work of 29 conspirators, including retired Generals Richard Secord and John Singlaub and former CIA Deputy Director of Operations Theodore Shackley. Sheehan, who will appeal the dismissal, claims it is a "conscious action to stop this case from going to trial before the election...
...Rebel Archbishop Lefebvre vows to consecrate four ultra- traditionalist bishops. Result: the first Catholic schism in a century...
...told New York magazine in March, "When you start off with the idea that you're going to write, you think of yourself as some kind of rebel. Then you get to New York and you see there is as much conformism within the literary world as there is in the military world or business world. The rebel in a free country is the rebel within the status group.[Clothes] are a way of treating the literary-status world as cavalierly as I or any other writer would treat the outside world...
...former colonel in deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza's National Guard. But peace, or at least the promise of it implicit in the 60-day cease-fire signed by the contras and Sandinistas in March, has triggered a power struggle that threatens not only Bermudez's leadership but also rebel unity. Unless quickly settled, the infighting could prevent further peace talks and leave the Sandinistas in an even stronger military position when the cease-fire expires at the end of this month...