Word: brinkly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film never decides whether it has come to praise or bury the military tradition. Its ambiguity is apparent in casting the likable Hutton as the rebel leader. He tries, but one just cannot believe he is the kind of ramrod who would, or could, take his peers to the brink of armed confrontation and beyond. What with Director Becker lingering too long over various photogenic ceremonies, and the writers pumping out yards of motivational dialogue. Taps takes far too long to reach its bloody, predictable conclusion. Its big guns are loaded with nothing more lethal than Hollywood nerve...
When Secretary of State Dean Acheson signed the NATO treaty on April 4, 1949, as Vice President Alben Barkley and President Harry Truman watched, Western Europe was on the brink of economic collapse and its hastily demobilized armies were overwhelmingly outnumbered by the Soviets, 210 divisions...
...governing council. He and Raskin, who have a four-year-old son, were arraigned in New York last week on a 1979 charge for possession of explosives. Raskin was later released on $ 100,000 bail posted by her brother. The couple have not been linked with the Brink...
...richest stash of evidence was found at an apartment building in Mount Vernon, N.Y., where police had spotted one of the getaway cars used in the Brink's job, a tan Ford. Inside the building, investigators found bloodstained clothing, incriminating fingerprints and a very observant superintendent named Dennis Vasquez. Vasquez told police and federal agents that just hours before their arrival, he had seen five people load the contents of an apartment into a tan van and other vehicles. From photographs, he and his wife identified the five: Cynthia Priscilla Boston, 33, and her common-law husband, William Johnson...
Caught in the dragnet of the Brink's investigation were members of four supposedly dormant or little-known radical organizations. A brief guide to those underground groups...