Word: brest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foreign Ministry spokesmen refused to link the latest expulsions specifically with the arrest of Bernard Sourisseau, who is alleged to have made regular trips to the Atlantic ports of Lorient and Brest to observe French naval movements. But wellplaced sources indicated the cases were linked...
Authorities said the 44-year-old former helicopter mechanic also reported on movements at the naval base at Ile Longue, near Brest, home of France's nuclear missile carrying submarines...
Soviet interest in the Brest-Lorient region in northwestern France was cited in November 1983 by Brest Mayor Jacques Berthelot. He suspended a friendship agreement with the city of Tallinn in Estonia, saying Brest was becoming a key point for Soviet spying...
...Paramount for eight years, was to star Sylvester Stallone. Then Stallone turned in a rewrite of the script, and soon the star and studio parted company. Paramount sent Murphy the script and within hours he agreed to do it. "Directing this movie was like doing live television," Director Martin Brest recalls. "There were seven versions of the script that were cut, pasted and rewritten before each scene. We were reshaping the material every day, and whenever we needed inspiration, Eddie would provide it. That the film turned out to be coherent is a miracle. That it is successful proves there...
...this story, the god is black. "Eddie is beyond brilliant," says Brest. "Audiences can vicariously enjoy a ride on his quicksilver mind, whirling a million miles an hour." Robert Wachs, Murphy's comanager since 1979, gauges the actor's appeal this way: "People want to gift wrap him and take him home." Joe Piscopo, Murphy's partner for 3 1/2 years on Saturday Night Live, says that "Eddie is actually playing himself on-screen. He manages to be totally natural and relaxed. I'd also like him to try something more serious, though, something with Scorcese or Coppola. I know...