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- THE WEEK, Page 29SOCIETYHalo, Goodbye
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- The head Guardian Angel admits some of his heroics were lies
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- First Superman dies and now this. Curtis Sliwa, founder and
- leader of the crime-fighting, beret-wearing volunteer group
- known as the Guardian Angels, says six of the group's early
- exploits were just publicity stunts. The hoaxes, which Sliwa
- says ended in 1980, ranged from a kidnapping Sliwa blamed on
- cops to a story about a wallet returned to an elderly mugging
- victim. The Angels have long been controversial, and some press
- reports allege Sliwa has yet to own up to all such misdeeds.
- Still, Sliwa says his honor is intact: "My reputation in New
- York was almost mythically heroic, and this is just a hard
- reality check." Hard indeed. He says his Angel wife Lisa
- launched a spinning, kung-fu kick at his face when he told her
- about his fabrications.
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