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With a family to worry about and his life at stake, Kilmartin is forced to cooperate with the police. Infiltrating the same organization that masterminded the stolen car operation, Kilmartin befriends the boss, Little Junior (Cage). As an insane mobster, Cage gives the performance of his life. The cop assigned to oversee Kimartin's undercover work in the mob, Calvin (Jackson), is the same one who caught a bullet under the eye when Kilmartin was arrested. Having lost control of his tear duct, Calvin totes a hankerchief to dab his incessantly watering...
...believed-to-be-true "political omnipotence" does not only come from wars. The bombs that hit the World Trade Center two years ago and Oklahoma City two days ago repeat the message that this country has become terrorists' No. 1 target because of its I'm the-world's-cop foreign policy...
Christopher Plummer, a brilliant actor whose agent should be shot, is also shamed by his lines. His bad-cop-with-a-grudge character is so badly written (and directed) that he looks and sounds like a bad Jack Palance imitation. It's embarrassing to watch...
Japanese police today mounted a massive manhunt for the masked bandit who pumped four bullets into the nation's top cop in broad daylight in eastern Tokyo. Media outlets, meanwhile, fielded telephoned threats of new attacks on police if they continue to investigate thecult Aum Shinrikyo, which is suspected of masterminding last week's nerve gas attack thatkilled 10 Tokyo subway passengers. Although the cult denies involvement with the gassing, or with the shooting of National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu, police have seized a cache of hazardous chemicals during raids on the sect's compounds. Kunimatsu was in serious...
Such a gadget would obviously improve on the current "is-it-an-Uzi-or-is-it-car-keys" standard of airport metal detectors. But Boyd anticipates a use beyond the doorway: mobile units costing less than $10,000 each that a cop could point out a car window and know who on a sidewalk is armed, before a gun is ever drawn. That, says social scientist James Q. Wilson, could "change the way we as a nation deal with guns...