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...when they asked to be sent home. "Callan," upon investigation, proved to be Costas Georgiou, 25, a Greek-Cypriot immigrant and former British paratrooper who had been cashiered from the service for robbing a post office. After being released from prison last year, Georgiou went to Angola, where he wound up in command of the F.N.L.A. mercenary forces...
Copeland, who had served in Britain's Parachute Regiment, was ordered court-martialed by F.N.L.A. Leader Holden Roberto, and shot by a firing squad. "Callan" reportedly escaped and hid out in the bush, nursing a leg wound. The British mercenaries called him "completely ruthless" and a "homicidal maniac." They said he spent much of his time shooting black tribesmen just...
Furious Clip. That was no small feat, given the diversity of action as the Olympics wound up. Ski races were going off moments after speed-skating contests ended, and hockey games followed each other at a furious clip. Traffic jams congealed around the competition sites, and some fans retreated to their hotels to watch the Games on TV. At night, hotel bars became the scene of pick-up Olympics. "This is mad," said one American girl at the Holiday Inn. "I might as well have stayed at a singles bar in New York...
...them all to fly. I would send them up when the weather was rough, when the planes were in tough shape, when the birds were walking. The ones who survived would understand the meaning of 'alone.' " Bailey had transferred to the Marines to do his jet flight duty, and wound up, by a felicitous military fluke, as his squadron's chief legal officer. He spent the last 17 months of his Marine hitch prosecuting, defending, judging or investigating military cases. On the side, he apprenticed with a civilian lawyer, a fact that helped him to talk his way into Boston...
...first time in 1966 on a movie called Rita The Mosquito, which she directed under the name "George Brown." Two years later, Giannini starred in a Wertmuller play he had brought to Zeffirelli's attention. Zeffirelli staged it, Enrico Job did the sets and costumes. Wertmuller wound up married to the designer and working, again with Giannini, on The Seduction of Mimi...