Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MORE THAN a week later, the suicide car-bomb that blasted the U.S. embassy in Lebanon continues to send a message far beyond, the rattled windows of Beirut. It has become clear that our government is incapable of learning from the past, and that the present Administration's efforts against terrorism have done little more than provide a speech topic for high officials...
...were still coming, and the fledgling Lebanese government had yet to prove itself able to guarantee order. But the State Department decided anyway that the newly relocated embassy was somehow safe enough, and withdrew the 80-man Marine contingent armed with the heavy weapons that could have stopped the car-terrorist...
...secure. Officials knew that shatter-resistant windows, reinforced blast walls, earthen berms, and even simple gates were crucial to containing terrorist attacks. But they allowed the embassy personnel to move in before protective devices had been completely installed. Only a few easily negotiated concrete barriers stood between the killer-car and the embassy...
Under ordinary Lebanese circumstances, such lapses would border on the criminally negligent. Yet the car-attack was not the first, but the third such strike against American installations in Beirut--following the unforgottably tragic destruction of the U.S. embassy 17 months ago and the more recent Marine compound bombing which killed 241 Americans...
...survival, the film becomes uncomfortably uneven. With all the tackiness represented by the taxi cab Yellow Mercedes, Santa Barbara suburbanites Gladys and Warren Fitzpatrick (Karen Black and Martin Mull) come to buy a child from the Sacred Heart. "We tried a dog." Exuding the charm of a used car salesman and the taste of John Rivers, Sister Serena markets her "kids" like a Romco television ad. "How about a conversation piece?" she asks, singling out her single Black charge. "Something South of the Border?" Our caricatured Ozzie and Harriet demur. "We already have a gardener." Finally they take Mouse...