Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regime are not only imprisoned or exiled but sometimes publicly hung in Damascus' main square after summary trials. Assad keeps the security forces firmly under his control (all of the senior officers must be Alawi). Inside Damascus, a special 9,000-man infantry division, commanded by Assad's brother Rifaat, protects the President and his regime. There are stories of Rifaat's ruthless excesses: people losing a choice villa or apartment because he wanted it for a friend, or brutal beatings of someone who is less than polite to Rifaat's intimates. Nonetheless, says a Western diplomat, "without Rifaat, Assad...
Crimson: "Wait a minute, I think you must have me confused with my twin brother Gideon...
Francesco Rosi's brilliant political thriller Illustrious Corpses, deals quite well with this rather complicated subject of Italian political turmoil. The film's theme of political assassination and a growing police state conjures up frightening Orwellian visions of Big Brother-type repression. It is even more eerily prophetic as it was made in 1975, before the Moro killing and more compelling than The Parallax View (an American film with the same theme of assassination) as it probably reflects a greater measure of reality...
Angel Street--Victorian mystery-drama--or so they tell me. At the Cambridge Acting Company, a/k/a The Hasty Pudding Club, Holyoke St., Friday and Saturday at 7:30. Brother Blue '48--Storyteller supreme, complete with feathers. Saturday and Sunday at 8 at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St., Boston...
...possible job as assistant and heir apparent to J. Stanford Smith, chief executive of International Paper Co. The talks came to nothing. lacocca's role at Ford was reduced still further only a month ago when Ford expanded the office of the chief executive to include his brother William Clay Ford, 53, owner of the Detroit Lions football team. At the time the internal structure of the office was modified so that lacocca could no longer report to the chairman at all but instead had to deal through Caldwell...