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...sometimes with the help of plain old- fashioned human spies--the U.S. constantly monitors many of the key telephone conversations and cable traffic of its friends and foes alike. The U.S. intelligence community does not want to reveal which of these methods it used to listen in as Colonel Gaddafi sent orders from Tripoli to his far-flung terror network. But U.S. officials insist there is little doubt that a fortnight ago the U.S. intercepted communications that specifically link Gaddafi with the bombing of a West German disco that claimed the life of a U.S. serviceman and injured 230 people...
...sixteenth century. Locked in the Tower of London is Colonel Fairfax (Garland Withers), condemned to death as a result of a jealous relative's evil machinations. Everyone loves Fairfax, particularly Sergeant Meryll (Douglas Freeman) of the Tower yeomen and Meryll's daughter Phoebe (Lisa Zeidenberg). Maneuvering on their own, they seek to free the condemned man--Meryll in appreciation of Fairfax's past heroism, Phoebe in anticipation of the captive's predicted amours...
Meanwhile, the stoic-if-vindictive colonel is contriving to have the last laugh on his unseen tormentor, who will gain the family fortune only if Fairfax dies a bachelor. The Lieutenant of the Tower (David Magill), another Fairfax fan, agrees to find him a woman who will marry him before his execution in exchange for a hundred crown dower. The woman in question is is Elsie Maynard (Michelle French), a traveling minstrelette who does the country fair circuit with jestering partner Jack Point (Peter F. Miller). Point hopes someday to marry Elsie, but agrees to the scheme after hearing...
...make the difference between competence and excitement. Overactress Zeidenberg works hard to appear the storybook caricature of lovestruck Phoebe, and bright eyes and rich voice provide the elements of a successful performance. Withers as Fairfax enters with the melancholy appropriate for a man facing execution, but the low-key colonel never seems to realize that his character continues to live in subsequent scenes. Freeman, in spite of an unextraordinary voice, brings off the role of Meryll with genuine likability...
...most dangerous threat to a new civilian government, however, is the four-year civil war being waged by the estimated 20,000 guerrillas of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army. Led by John Garang, a renegade army colonel, the insurgents now control much of the southern half of the country, where the government last week was forced to postpone indefinitely voting in 37 of the 68 constituencies in the region. The rebels claim that the mainly Muslim and Arab north discriminates against the predominantly animist and Christian blacks in the south, and have vowed to keep fighting, whoever wins...