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...July 28, Abolhassan Banisadr, the deposed President, and Massoud Rajavi, his ally and leader of the urban guerrillas known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), slipped on stolen military uniforms and sneaked from their hideout into a small army van. They were driven to a military airfield, passing unrecognized through security controls (Banisadr had shaved his familiar mustache), and boarded an Iranian air force Boeing...
...Israeli reaction was, naturally enough, pride in their military accomplishment. But there was not the same spontaneous celebration in the streets, for example, that greeted the July 1976 pinpoint Israeli commando raid on Uganda's Entebbe airfield. One reason was that as international criticism started to pour in, many Israelis sensed an impending isolation. Said Eli Ben-Hamo, 26, a Jerusalem café owner: "It was necessary. It had to be done. But I'm worried. We're doing it to ourselves. For years the world didn't much like us. Nowadays we're giving them reason...
...photography has discovered that the Soviets are building and operating a support pier to tend the nuclear-powered submarines that frequently call at Cam Ranh Bay. In the past few months, communications intercepts have picked up voices speaking native Russian from the control tower at Danang's military airfield, also U.S.-built. Says Vice Admiral Sylvester Foley, a deputy chief of naval operations in Washington: "In Viet Nam, the Soviets now have what for all in tents and purposes is a forward staging base." That base makes it far easier for Soviet warships to take up stations...
Which is not to say that Dogs of War is about politics--Americans do not go to movies about politics. Instead, the camera follows one initially very apolitical character, Jamie Shannon. First he is on an airfield (labelled "Central America"), departing with his mercenary band after an unnamed mission. He arrives in New York, is nice to a small child, and then flies off to the West African state of Zangaro, modelled loosely on Uganda. He is doing reconaissance for a big, unidentified, corporate interest which wants to make sure Zangaro's repressive regime is stable so it can start...
...zero. "I felt as though I was wearing a bathing suit," he said afterward. He was, in fact, clad in wool underwear, a frogman's suit, a ski suit, a leather suit, several wool sweaters and a motorcycle helmet. The frigid feat ended in a small New Jersey airfield, after a ritual circling of the Statue of Liberty and a near collision with the Goodyear blimp...