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...tracing the journey of Guevara from restless child of the upper middle class to abettor of the Cuban revolution, the movie runs into dead ends of sentiment (the little people Che bonds with include a gorgeous leper) and nearly sinks in bathos (he swims a wide river for one last visit to the leper colony). It's all to demonstrate the radicalizing of a guerrilla hero. "We wanted to show where Che came from and where he was going," García Bernal says. "So finding the tone was very delicate, like fine embroidery." Certainly his participation is faultless. He brings...
Washington can count on even less assent from Arab leaders, who fear that with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raging and Washington widely seen as Israel's abettor, a U.S. campaign against Iraq would incite unrest in their streets. "Emotions are already boiling," says an Arab diplomat. "A second war will be more than the region can take." Turkey and Syria, which border Iraq, are worried that Saddam's fall could tempt the Kurds who live in Iraq's north to secede, thereby emboldening their Kurdish populations to agitate for autonomy...
...Surrender, Dear" (1931), the first of nine short films he would make for producer Mack Sennett. Already he is cast as himself, sort of: "Bing Crosby." Already he is the famous singer all the girls adore. Already he plays pranks on the unwary and has a comedy abettor, an ur-Hope wise guy played by Arthur Stone. Somehow, though, he made the prankishness look like the inevitable spillover of a frat-house exuberance...
Despite such a record, the U.S. earned small thanks in Afro-Asian countries. Why does it find itself portrayed, by such disparate men as Nasser and Nehru, as a covert aider and abettor of imperialism? Diehard Colonel Blimps-British, French and American-retort that such "ingratitude" simply proves the folly of "appeasing" the Afro-Asian world. The real answers are more complicated...
...than the British. The Suez, after all, was French-built, and its expropriated company was one of France's bluest chips. But this was not the real basis of the French reaction. The nation is deep in a costly and frustrating struggle in Algeria, and chief aider and abettor of the rebels is Dictator Nasser. When Premier Guy Mollet ordered two-thirds of the French navy and a Moroccan division to be ready "to impose" a solution in the Suez, one Parisian growled: "Well worth it. We'd be cutting the serpent's head instead of hacking...