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...Revolution is the mother country's revenge. Hugh Hudson memorialized Britain's play-fair pluckiness in Chariots of Fire, then suggested in Greystoke, that its weary civilization stifled man's best primal instincts. This time Hudson does not take sides. He hates 'em both. The Redcoats stagger across a battlefield like Monty Python twits; the colonists see defeat approaching and run like dogs. But this seems less cynical impartiality than a failure of craft. The film's central characters have virtually nothing to do with the winning or losing of the war. Working-class Boatsman Tom Dobb (Al Pacino, whose...
...second stage of Gorbachev's program, which would begin by 1990 and last five to seven years, the U.S., the Soviet Union and "other" nuclear powers would make further reductions in intermediate-range missiles and carry out a phased elimination of battlefield nuclear weapons. The problems are obvious: agreement would be required not only from Britain and France but from China, the other known member of the "nuclear club" and a nation that has so far refused to join any nuclear negotiations. An even stickier problem is that the U.S. and its NATO allies depend on nuclear weapons to deter...
Gorbachev also advanced a host of more immediate proposals. In tacit recognition of the link between battlefield nuclear weapons and conventional arms, he called for a speeding up of the negotiations on troop reductions in Europe that have been dragging on in Vienna for twelve years, and matched a Western concession made last December with one of his own on verification. He proposed an agreement on chemical weapons that moved beyond Moscow's previous willingness to destroy only existing stockpiles and called for dismantling production facilities as well. He also extended for three months a Soviet moratorium on weapons tests...
...From more than 1200 meters away, high on a mountain, the patrol spotted a group of al-Qaeda figures dressed in Russian camouflage and wearing black balaclavas. They carried high-tech weapons, and appeared to be guarding a white-robed older man with a cane as they fled the battlefield...
...methods in a new light. "Later on, they are going to understand why I jump on mistakes," he says. "Later on, those might be fatal mistakes, ones they can't take back." He looks for ways to test both their knowledge and their instincts as they prepare for a battlefield where friend and enemy can be indistinguishable. He is a walking album of case studies: You're leading a platoon, he tells his cadets, and one of your men is lying wounded in the middle of a minefield. You go meet with a local farmer, who knows how to lead...