Word: attacked
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Radical terrorism remained an affliction of the Western democracies, but one battle was won in that war. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt bravely outplayed the Palestinian terrorists who skyjacked a Lufthansa airliner in October, saving the lives of 86 with a commando attack at Mogadishu, Somalia. Soon afterward, however, the body of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, who had been kidnaped by Baader-Meinhof gangsters six weeks earlier, was found in the trunk of an abandoned car in France...
DIED. Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell, 92, Winston Churchill's "darling Clementine"; of a heart attack; while eating lunch at her London home. An aristocratic beauty, she was married at 23 to Churchill, ten years her senior and already a Member of Parliament and a Cabinet minister, amid great predictions that their marriage would last six months. It lasted for 57 years, and Winston called it "the most fortunate and joyous event" of his life. During his long exile in the political wilderness, her intelligence, her tact and her faith in him made her the perfect foil...
...Director Siegel, who is usually good at this sort of thing, doesn't generate much pace or suspense. There is nothing very interesting about the major characters either, a condition that leads Bronson to increase -if that's possible- his normal stolidity, while Remick succumbs to an attack of perkiness. Instead of winding tighter and tighter, as a suspense story should, Telefon just winds down, rather like - come to think of it- a phone call between two people who don't really have much to say to each other...
...with the Colonel de Basil Ballet Russe at age 14, was much in demand in the U.S. in the '40s and '50s as a leading dancer and, after that, as a coach who worked with such performers as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Fernando Bujones; of a heart attack; in Elmira, N.Y., where his touring company was performing The Nutcracker...
DIED. David K.E. Bruce, 79, paradigm of the American aristocrat-public servant, who worked for six Presidents as diplomat, adviser and troubleshooter; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. The tall, courtly son of a Maryland Senator and Pulitzer-prizewinning author, Bruce had a Jeffersonian career-farmer, lawyer, author, state legislator, businessman, Army colonel, sportsman, art patron, raconteur and wine connoisseur. After running the European operations of the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) during World War II, Bruce helped rebuild the Continent as an administrator of the Marshall Plan and later as Ambassador to France under Harry...