Word: xavier
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Elsewhere Puzo is dead serious about the tendency of money and power to corrupt. The Fourth K of the title is President of the U.S. Francis Xavier Kennedy, a fictive cousin of John and Robert's. F.X.K. is a clever invention, but he also shares characteristics with The Godfather's Michael Corleone. Both are intelligent young men whose high ideals are tarnished by a brutal world. In fact, it is idealists who cause most of the trouble. When a group of Arab terrorists known as the One Hundred kill the Pope, hijack a jet carrying the U.S. President's daughter...
...asked any state legislator about Francis Xavier Aloysius Fagan today, chances are good that only a few would remember...
...palm trees and concrete mausoleums with a martial theme. And everywhere the gaze of the maximum leader. Hundreds of billboard-size portraits are painted on buildings, framed in traffic circles, displayed in lobbies: Saddam drawing sword, Saddam on stallion, Saddam in sunglasses, Saddam in camouflage fatigues, Saddam looking like Xavier Cugat in white suit, Saddam slaying the infidels. In the city center is a new statue, 60 ft. high: Saddam, ramrod straight, arm outstretched in salute...
...conditioned placidity of their adopted country. Today they languish in three sprawling, filthy tent cities, called Shaalan One, Two and Three, erected in a sweltering moonscape infested with snakes and scorpions. At least 10 refugees, including two babies, have already died of dehydration and exposure. Says Xavier Emmanuelli, president of the French relief organization Doctors Without Borders: "These people are hostages of the desert...
...Angeles' San Fernando High School has turned out enough distinguished graduates to fill a classroom. They include Heisman Trophy winner Charles White, former National League Rookie of the Year Gary Matthews, University of Louisville basketball coach Denny Crum and rock-'n'- roll legend Ritchie Valens. San Fernando also produced Xavier Velazquez, an honor student and school vice president who was one of a group of students who met with President George Bush last year to discuss education. But Velazquez, a senior who hopes to attend M.I.T. in the fall, is one of the fortunate few: roughly half of those...