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...many SNAFU cartoons, vigilance - a kind of protective paranoia - is the motto. "Spies" (directed by Jones for an August 1943 release) darkly suggests that German and Japanese agents lurk everywhere: in a baby carriage, a mailbox, a street lamp, a drain, a horse's head, inside a telephone. The antlers of two moose-head trophies, of the kind Geisel used for his Schaefer Beer ad, merge to form a swastika. A luscious babe SNAFU meets at a bar is seen noting his indiscretions on a tiny typewriter under the table; another babe's breasts are tape-recorder reels emblazoned with...
...musical megalomaniac who wants every child in the world to learn his Happy Fingers piano technique. Bart's mother Henrietta (Mary Healy) is hypnotized by the bad Doctor into becoming "second in charge of the whole Happy Fingers racket." And the putative hero, the music-loving plumber August Zabladowski (Peter Lind Hayes, Healy's frequent co-star and, for 58 years, her husband), is a complacent fellow who takes ages to take sides with Bart against...
...Still, the outcome of the talks?which included a commitment to confer again before July and to set up a working group to hammer out an agenda beforehand?was an improvement over the last such session. The six countries met for the first time last August, but those talks ended on a belligerent note after North Korea threatened to conduct a nuclear test. Last week, according to a statement issued by Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, all parties could at least agree that they had committed themselves "to a nuclear weapons-free Korean Peninsula...
Vignarajah was selected Feb. 11 from among 10 candidates based on his academic performance and writing skills. He has served on the Review as an editor since August...
...Seoul’s “sunshine policy” of North-South détente. Stemming from fears of a North Korean offensive or a massive refugee influx, “sunshine” has in practice meant appeasement. Its moral vacuity was laid bare this past August, when a German human rights worker, Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, was beaten by South Korean riot police while trying to launch a flock of hot air balloons carrying radios toward North Korea. A few days later, he led a peaceful anti-Kim Jong Il protest outside a press center in Taejon...