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...once, you can believe a beleaguered distributor. The affair between Padre Amaro and Amelia ends in trag-edy. But before that occurs, director Carlos Carrera's handsome film offers a richly detailed portrait of a church not so much corrupt as morally lazy after centuries in command of an overwhelmingly Catholic country. Bland bishops, older priests turning a blind eye to drug lords, churchly displeasure with the film's most heroic figure--a people's padre--are shown with cool objectivity. Exit polls in Mexico found that 70% of audiences approved of the movie...
...vital crossroads in Virginia because a fellow officer had caught several shad for lunch. Thus was the Battle of Five Forks lost, and the course of the Civil War irrevocably altered. If The Founding Fish (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 358 pages) is any indication, had John McPhee been in command at Five Forks, he might have behaved likewise...
...ACQUITTED. FERNANDO NINO, 25, and MARK WALKER, 36, two American soldiers charged with negligent homicide in the June 13 road deaths of two 14-year-old South Korean schoolgirls crushed by a 45-ton armored vehicle under their command; by a U.S. military court at Camp Casey north of Seoul. South Koreans have demonstrated angrily outside the base, demanding that the soldiers be tried by the South Korean judicial system, and calling for the withdrawal of the 37,000 U.S. troops sta-tioned in the country. The Justice Ministry has described the acquittal as "regrettable," while two prominent political parties...
...intriguing insight into the compartmentalized nature of the terrorists' command structure?and the possible decisive role of the three top suspects?was given by Amrozi, the first member of the bombing team to be apprehended. According to a source familiar with a lengthy Nov. 15 interrogation, Amrozi disclosed that the target of the group's main bomb was changed at the last moment by the intervention of three mysterious strangers, in all likelihood the same three "top guns" now heading the police's secret most wanted list. (After testifying, the 39-year-old mechanic signed the 70-plus-page transcript...
...that is new in Iraq these days, the repeated targeting of and firing upon American and British aircraft in the no-flight zones is a disappointing reminder that much still remains the same. The American Central Command confirmed that Iraqi forces have fired on allied aircraft more than 30 times since the Security Council resolution was passed. Since Iraqi President Saddam Hussein expelled the U.N. inspectors in 1998, these attacks have been commonplace...