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...unique, in the world of business. Gaudio, 46, is a composer, pianist, arranger and producer who has worked on records with Sinatra, Ross, Diamond, Michael Jackson and Barry Manilow. Valli, 53, is the veteran pop singer whose high-pitched voice (a critic once likened it to an air-raid siren) still packs in audiences at basketball arenas, concert halls, nightclubs and casinos. Both men were original members of the Four Seasons, the famed rock group that next month will launch its 25th anniversary concert tour. The dozens of Four Seasons hits, including such Gaudio tunes as Big Girls...
Gaddafi, for his part, emerged last week in Tripoli for a bizarre 20- second appearance marking the anniversary of the 1986 U.S. bombing raid on Libya. After stepping onto a platform before an audience of some 500 mostly foreign guests, Gaddafi inexplicably turned around and left. Aides could not account for the mercurial leader's sudden exit, which left the four-day anti- American get-together to speakers ranging from American Indian militants to seasoned '60s radicals and at least one British Labor...
Once again the rebels had shattered the claims of the Salvadoran army and its 55-man U.S. training team that the guerrillas were being successfully contained. When he visited the garrison a few hours after the raid, General Adolfo Blandon, the Salvadoran army commander, was confronted with scenes of carnage and destruction. Wisps of smoke still curled from charred buildings as soldiers gathered bodies and parts of bodies into plastic bags. Discarded uniforms and blood-stained bandages were strewn about a building that had been a barracks...
...spied so aggressively -- and successfully -- against the U.S. and because it exploited a dedicated, if flawed, American Zionist to do its dirty work. "What chutzpah," wrote New York Times Columnist William Safire, "to expect the U.S. . . . to forgive and forget the corrupting of American citizens that led to a raid on our National Security Agency by a foreign power." Continued Safire: "American supporters of Israel cannot support wrongdoing here or there. In matters of religion and culture, many of those supporters are American Jews, but in matters affecting national interest and ultimate loyalty, the stonewalling leaders of Israel will learn...
Police found three handguns in their raid, but Moore faces no charges for possession of illegal firearms...