Word: amnesiac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BOURNE IDENTITY (ABC, May 8 and 9, 9 p.m. EDT). Mr. Mini-Series, Richard Chamberlain, stars in a two-parter based on Robert Ludlum's novelabout an amnesiac desperately seeking his past...
...Soviet launches of antisatellite weapons. While there is good reason to be wary of Soviets bearing disarmament initiatives, there is no reason for refusing to probe them further. Yet the Reagan Administration dismissed Soviet ASAT feelers out of hand. It did so partly because of its shortsighted and amnesiac confidence in the superiority of American high tech, and partly because of its deep-seated distaste for arms control of any kind...
...latest epic by Robert Ludlum (The Matarese Circle) manages to top, if not topple, Carlos. The central character of his The Bourne Identity (Marek; 523 pages; $12.95) is an amnesiac, the result of a botched attempt on his life. From a microphotograph surgically implanted in his body, he finds the address of a bank in Zurich, an account that yields him more than $5 million, and a name: Jason Charles Bourne. As bloody memories and deadly skills return, Bourne discovers that he is a trained and instinctive killer, code-named Cain, quite possibly the match of Carlos...