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...training for thousands of Salvadoran troops at camps in Panama or the U.S., to a plan for sending in as many as 100 advisers, who would train Salvadoran troops within the country and even accompany them on combat missions. Coordinating this review was a task force headed by James Cheek, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and a career Foreign Service officer. Cheek's task force reported to an interagency group that included representatives from State, Defense, the CIA and the National Security Council...
...which runs the gamut from pulsating rock to bits of C & W, some classy jazz, a haunting violin solo, and, for atmosphere, is orchestrated to include a kind of bubbling woodblock. Sometimes the music enhances the mood, and sometimes it undercuts it, commenting on the action. Frequently tongue-in-cheek, it is always imaginative and melodious, orchestrated with pizazz and performed with panache by 12 musicians (including Ivers on harmonica, who can be viewed in full light during the curtain call...
...expected him to be statesmanlike and cautious," said a Kremlin watcher in London, "but he went even further-both in what he said and what he didn't say. Wherever he could, he avoided the abrasive issues in Soviet-American relations. He was consciously turning the other cheek...
Other white South Africans kept their tongues firmly in cheek. Satirist Alexander de Kok of the Sunday Express wrote of a nationalist friend who had called the finding "an Afrikaner master plan." Said Kok: "What better way to pass power peacefully into black hands than to prove scientifically that those who hold it now are as black as the rest." Kok also wondered why Afrikaner historians had taken so many years to make the discovery, unless "as many Afrikaners say, people of mixed blood are slow thinkers." When a black Johannesburg gardener asked a white what he thought about...
...through her hair a profound expression of violently contradictory emotions; her quick, reluctant smile exudes poignancy. Physically, she is the perfect realization of Polanski's idea of "provocative beauty." Her full lips suggest a smoldering sensuality, undetectable in those Bambi-esque eyes. Even the tiny scar on her left cheek seems to heighten her beauty, like Gene Tierney's over-bite. The trouble with Kinski is her voice, a wonderfully funny, squeaky little thing. It quivers and gurgles and struggles to capture an English accent but sounds oddly Irish instead. She rushes to finish many of her lines, as though...