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Alia's modest reforms seem to have split the 53-member Central Committee of the ruling party. Many Western diplomats believe a strong conservative faction has grown up around Hoxha's widow Nexhmije, supported by the Sigurimi, Albania's much feared secret police force. Anxious to slow if not halt the reforms, the conservatives may even have sought to oust Alia...
...accused: Imelda Marcos, widow of the exiled Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, charged with helping him loot $220 million from their country's treasury. Three times she brought the trial to a halt by swooning, once coughing up blood to the shock of the courtroom...
...Cleveland began to frisk the argumentative Joseph, Dalton crept behind the car, pulled out a pistol and fired two shots into the trooper's head. Prejean had also killed a taxi driver during an aborted robbery when he was 14. "I'm not bloodthirsty," insisted the officer's widow Candy Cleveland the morning before the execution. "But what kind of person am I supposed to be? I have pain. How am I supposed to feel?" Even so, she said, she would not favor killing Prejean except that she does not really believe in life without parole. "There is always...
...against which neither resistance nor entreaty is an effective countermeasure. In Cadillac Man, he is discovered pulling up to a stalled funeral procession, to see if he can unload a replacement hearse on the desperate undertaker. While he's at it, he takes a shot at selling the bereaved widow one of his luxury cars, coyly suggesting it might be a nice memorial to her late, apparently generous husband...
Lusia, meanwhile, had been talking with our "landlady" and had taken a look around the apartment, which had four rooms (one reserved for the landlady), plus kitchen and bathroom. The landlady told Lusia she was the widow of a KGB officer. (It took us six months to discover what her real duties were: to make sure that the window in her room was left unbolted to allow KGB agents access to the apartment from the street, bypassing the police manning a watch post.) As I appeared, she retired to her room...