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...movie plot scenarios. There's a scene in U.S. Marshals where Gerard catches Sheridan picking his handcuffs off and asks him whether or not he's going to escape because Gerard is busy and can't watch him just now that characterizes the mood of the film. Jones is aboard the prison transport plane because of this stupid public relations reason that his superior all but made up. (Didn't these people see ConAir? Why is it that people have to fly criminals anywhere? It's not like they have anywhere to go in a hurry.) When asked whether...
...FAITHFUL Time Correspondent Teddy White was aboard a U.S. bomber as it made a Christmas Eve visit to the Japanese troops in China. Afterward he cabled the following dispatch: We crossed the Mekong and the Salween en route to the Japanese lines with lights out, our formation tight, the interlocking ships black against the rising moon behind them. Tengyueh lay absolutely still within the rectangular walls of its valley, with not a glimmer of light anywhere. But the brilliance of the moon traced the outlines of the walls and the main streets in clear sharp shadows...
...Friday, Feb. 20, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan flew to the Iraqi capital aboard a Falcon 900 jet lent to him by French President Jacques Chirac. The deceptively soft-spoken Ghanaian listened for two days as the Iraqis pressed their position. On Sunday, Feb. 22, in the massive Republican Palace on the banks of the Tigris River, he calmly closed a deal with Saddam Hussein. There would be no bombing, at least not now. There was a global sigh of relief...
Your story mentioned that Hillary Clinton served as a House committee lawyer during Watergate and said she is "sounding a bit like Tricky Dick himself." I view Hillary more like Captain Queeg aboard the U.S.S. Caine. You could almost see her rolling those steel balls in her hand as she ranted on TV about the conspiracy. AL SARTOR Walnut Creek, Calif...
...become a $700 million industry. One film now has profits equivalent to the GNP of a small country. Once it passes the $1 billion mark worldwide and beats the twice-released "Star Wars" at home, look for Hollywood to do what it does best -- copycat movies. Coming soon: Love aboard the Lusitania...