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...about 50 vehicles onto the street below. The shaking, which began at 3:46 p.m. EST (5:46 a.m. in Japan) and lasted about 20 seconds, was also felt strongly 22 miles away in Osaka, Japan's second-largest city. Nearly 200 people were believed buried in rubble in Ashiya, a posh residential district between Kobe and Osaka. Japan's Cabinet was scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on the disaster tonight...
...Hanshin Tigers baseball team, Shingo Furuya, 56, ended a phone call to his wife Akiko with the word sayonara (goodbye) instead of his customary oyasumi (have a good night's sleep). Sensing something wrong, Akiko summoned a taxi and sped 300 miles from the family home in Ashiya, in southwestern Japan, to his hotel in Tokyo. By the time she arrived, early on the morning of July 19, Furuya had leaped from the staircase outside his eighth-floor room to the garden 92 feet below...
Redeeming Facts. Unfortunately, Elliot Arnold, a sometime screen writer (Flight from Ashiya, Broken Arrow), comes close to tarnishing a gallant tale by treating it with shabby slickness. He lays out staccato scenes in simplistic scenarist terms and somehow manages to include every cliche possible-plus a few that are highly improbable...
Flight from Ashiya. There's something about a soldier. In the movies, there's usually something sappy about a soldier. In this film, worse yet, there's something downright phony about the men of the Air Rescue Service...
When cooperation is given any more, strings of steel are attached. B-52s and KC-135s will be filmed for Universal-International's A Gathering of Eagles, but the planes' crews must be "in training" at the time. And Columbia's Flight from Ashiya (about the Air Rescue Service) has been bowdlerized at Pentagon insistence. In the original script, a paramedic says to an uncomprehending Arab girl: "I bet you'd be great in the sack...