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...agreement is regarded as an important preliminary to full integration of the twelve-member European Community, scheduled for Jan. 1, 1993. Within the new five-nation zone, passport controls for citizens will be lifted, police will share information, and extradition and political-asylum measures will be harmonized. But to combat a possible increase in illicit drug trafficking, terrorist activities and illegal immigration, controls on the external borders of Schengenland will be tightened...
Hollywood spending is likely to rise until some box-office disaster forces studios to retrench once again. When film legends Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith formed United Artists in 1919, a Hollywood wag famously quipped, "The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum." Today's top stars are seizing power by demanding -- and getting -- salaries and revenue-sharing deals that may be pushing the cost of movies to reckless heights...
...fold, you'll have no damn phones!" A Porsche ad promises male owners instant sex. And a United Airlines spot boasts, "Most of our passengers get there alive!" In the new Paramount film, Crazy People, the advertising copywriter who pens these lines is committed to an insane asylum. Since this is Hollywood, though, the writer, played by Dudley Moore, soon becomes the hottest property on Madison Avenue and falls in love with Daryl Hannah...
...Soviet naval officer and a band of co-conspirators lock the captain of their ship in his cabin, tie up the other officers and head for asylum in the West. Military authorities learn of the mutiny and set out in pursuit. Sound similar to The Hunt for Red October? No wonder. The incident, revealed last week in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia, turns out to have been the real-life basis for Tom Clancy's blockbuster, the film version of which, starring Sean Connery, is now playing across...
Wherever he finally lands, Noriega seems finished politically. Latin dictators, once deposed and forced to seek asylum, rarely if ever come back. After his flight into the nunciature, Panama began returning to normal. Government offices and businesses that had not been looted reopened...