Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, November 1, 1994 TAG: 9411010107
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ROBERT L. LITTLE AND DAVID M. POOLE STAFF WRITERS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The boisterous throng of Oliver North supporters oft-times referred to as ``Ollie's Army'' has repeatedly shown how enthusiastic it can be.
At least one of them can be downright mean, too.
During a North campaign rally in Falls Church Friday, four Charles Robb supporters interrupted a speech by waving signs and chanting, ``We want Chuck.'' They were quickly silenced by the crowd, and they later complained to police that two of them had been assaulted.
After the rally, 24-year-old Robb supporter Mirna Aceituno was sobbing and clutching her arm, which she said was bruised during the melee.
A large, loud, lumbering man wearing a blue ``Ollie'' sticker walked up to her and laughed.
``Aww, did they hurt the poor Robb baby?'' taunted the man, who would not give his name.
Aceituno broke into tears.
``I just thought this was America and I could say how I feel,'' she said, still crying. ``I just wanted to let them know not everyone is for North.''
The senator shakes it
Robb was caught in a stiff guy's worst nightmare Friday night.
He found himself standing alone on the dance floor at an NAACP convention when the disc jockey let loose with the frat party song "Shout."
Robb had two choices: cut and run or cut the rug.
He made his best stab at the latter, shuffling his feet and flapping his arms like a chicken on an electric fence.
The audience laughed and cheered him on.
"He's got no rhythm," one woman chuckled, "but he's funny."
Ollie's media ally
North acts like anyone with a microphone and an earplug is out to derail his campaign on the airwaves, but at least one well-known broadcaster is backing him up.
Adrian Kronauer, the famed ``Good Morning Vietnam'' disc jockey, appeared at a North rally Friday, chiming his famous line and cracking jokes about Robb, Marion Barry and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
``Goooooooood evening, Virginia,'' he began his short speech.
The former Vietnam War celebrity, short of stature but still long in the lungs, told the crowd the first thing he will say the morning after the Nov. 8 election.
``Goooooooooo,'' he intoned into the microphone for nearly a minute - so long your face almost turned red listening, ``ooooooood morning Senator North,'' he finally finished.
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