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...really end. No matter when Neveu returns?1981, 1985, 1990?the visages he captures so expertly are still gaunt. The hunger. The poverty. The children with distended bellies and thin arms. And there are guns and soldiers everywhere. The Vietnamese broke Pol Pot's control of the central state apparatus in 1979 and ended the general terror, but he and his troops simply melted back into the jungle to continue fighting. Countless other guerrilla forces were spawned. Neveu seems to have run with them all. He catches wounded soldiers on film as they are being dragged to safety, their eyes...
...back with only two hours' worth of fuel and 137 passengers on board. On the ground in Beijing, controller Liu Yuan (You Yong) arrives, chain-smokes, swigs coffee and looks suitably tormented. Prodded by Liu, the pilot tries multiple maneuvers, including a touch-and-go landing to bounce the apparatus down, and a manual release of the landing gear by a co-pilot who climbs down onto the wheels. An hour into the drama, Liu orders an emergency forced landing?the Chinese title of the film...
...National Crime Information Center, though that would help overworked officials make more informed decisions on whether to grant visas. Things become even more complicated when the bureau has to deal with the CIA. The separation between foreign and domestic intelligence gathering is a long tradition of the U.S. security apparatus. In part this was a remedy for the excesses of the Hoover-era bureau, which routinely kept files on political dissidents and infiltrated peaceful protest groups...
...aims of this campaign have been no big secret--decapitate the Taliban, eliminate al-Qaeda's terror apparatus and seize Osama bin Laden. Administration insiders call the strategy "Taliban plinking" (echoing the "tank plinking" of the Gulf War): special forces plan to pick off one individual at a time, starting with Mullah Omar and working down the command chain of Taliban leaders protecting bin Laden. The first wave of lightning special-ops strikes was, as much as anything else, a psychological weapon designed to boost American spirits and faith in the government, silence suspicions that the public might go wobbly...
...After a few turns, the apparatus collapsed on itself, with all the Regises yelling at each other. Our final destination was a narrow marble wrapped stairwell. After missing the actual arrival for which we had been pre-positioned, we were finally rushed in to see the leaders finish exchanging pre-meeting pleasantries. Kept cordoned and crushed by security, I watched the moment under the nagging leaves of a potted tree...