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Chandra Sharma plays Sweet Sixteen with feeling. Throughout the film, her face is the portrait of wanness and innocence. But in the end, Sweet Sixteen is broken. Drug dealer and pimp Baba (Nana Patekar) beguiles her into a realization of sexuality, though he treats the process as unemotionally as if her were training colts. But what can you expect from a man who decides to whip his pusher in front of a Western journalist who has been interviewing him? Patekar's Baba is fierce and unpleasant, cold and calculating in a way that sends proverbial tingles over the spine...
...same drug pusher whom Baba beats is, in fact, a good friend of Krishna's. Raghubir Yadav plays Chillum, the strung-out ganja addict and pusher, with frenzied exuberance, red-eyed and real. When the drug addict is given the boot by Baba, Krishna helps him, unwittingly providing the money for the fix that kills his friend...
...guerrillas learned that lesson the hard way at Kandahar last week when insurgents of Jamiat-i-Islami broke off attacks on strategic high ground around Baba Wali, a heavily fortified point overlooking the city, after coming under air and artillery barrages from entrenched government forces. An assault by fighters of Yunis Khalis' Hezb-e-Islami last month on outposts screening Jalalabad was similarly thrown back at the cost of as many as 50 mujahedin lives. Such large-scale attacks under heavy fire are something new for the guerrilla forces. Says Abdul Qadir, a senior rebel commander with Khalis: "The mujahedin...
...probity remains beyond question, corruption within her government has been an embarrassment to her. Jaime Cardinal Sin, whose support helped bring Aquino to power 18 months ago, blasted the government last week for its tarnished reputation. "We thought corruption would end with the fleeing of the ousted dictator Ali Baba," he said, referring to Ferdinand Marcos. "Yet there are still 40 thieves around...
...children, Khashoggi is not a merchant-statesman, but "Baba." His four sons and one daughter by his first wife, Soraya, are all students in the U.S. He and his second wife, Lamia, have a son Ali, 7, who lives most of the time at their house in Cannes. Although he considers himself a traditional disciplinarian and keeps his children on a budget, they do have fringe benefits: the older boys have been known to impress their dates with a tour of the family plane...