Word: commando
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...creature as Dracula spreading its capelike wings and Sorvino as both a Frankenstein whose experiment went bad and a Fay Wray to the insect world's King Kong. The roach and its sibs are Susan's mutant creations; they have the gift of mimicking other species. If Susan's commando crew doesn't Off the bugs quick, New York could become a slightly less fabulous place to live...
Ford plays President James Marshall, a man of action who orders a joint Russian-American commando raid and capture of the genocidal dictator General Radek in Kazakhstan. After the operation is successfully accomplished, Marshall delivers an I-mean-it speech in Moscow warning terrorists that "your day is over," then boards AF1 with his wife, 12-year-old daughter and some 50 staff members. Once airborne, just as Marshall is settling down to enjoy a recorded Notre Dame/Michigan football game, terrorists disguised as a Russian TV crew and led by Gary Oldman as Korshunov, a fanatical Radek loyalist, take over...
True. They were lying in gory heaps around the residence. Each time a commando ran past one of the bodies, an army officer told Time, he would pump another bullet into it to make sure. "Each terrorist must have had 500 bullets in him when it was over," the officer said. "Their heads were destroyed...
...most worrisome new development is the so-called takeover robbery, in which an armed gang holds tellers and customers hostage. On Feb. 28, a commando-style assault on a Bank of America branch led to a firefight on the streets of North Hollywood, California, in which two robbers died and dozens of police and bystanders were wounded. In Orange County, California, 17 such takeover robberies occurred last year, up 140% from...
Soon after the menacing statements from Syria, Israeli defense officials say, they noticed that Assad was training his forces more aggressively, emphasizing attack rather than defense strategies. Most ominously, he moved his 14th division, an elite commando outfit, from Beirut, where it protects Syrian interests in Lebanon, to positions close to the frontier with Israel. Syrian officials say the recent activity is defensive and insist they have no plans to strike. Moreover, many Arab analysts accuse Israel of playing up the war talk as a means of diverting attention from the paralysis in the peace process since Netanyahu came...