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When a couple of police detectives ask a Mafia chieftain (Ben Gazzara) for help in their search for the serial killer, the local bully boys show a little too much fascist zeal, keeping tabs on people's movements and pulling strangers out of cars.
Were the legions of reporters to look as closely at Tung's business as they do his politics, moreover, they might discover that he is closer to a Korean chaebol chieftain than to a Hong Kong entrepreneur.
Away from Las Canteras make your first stop Doramas Parque, a pleasantly landscaped park named after a Guanche island chieftain, and adjacent to the park is the Pueblo Canario (Canary Village).
[From a letter, by David B. Johnson of Socorro, to the Editor, Defensor Chieftain , .
Call him a roguish tribal chieftain or an ornery sociopath, he is what he is.