Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LOUIS, Mo.--The FBI arrested three men yesterday accused of a plot to steal a nuclear submarine, kill the crew, put out to sea, sell the submarine, and perhaps fire a nuclear missile at the East Coast...
Klager said the men showed the agent written plans for using a twelve-man crew to take the Trepang into the Atlantic Ocean, where they would make a rendezvous with an unidentified buyer
...best of five series now moves to the Smoggy City, where Tom Lasorda's crew hopes to complete their second consecutive playoff sweep and set up a probably World Series rematch with the Yankees...
First Zach gets a job in the gold mines--dehumanizing experience number one. Soon he loses that job, and in rapid succession he loses a few others--houseboy, gas station attendant, waiter, road crew--when the white employers become displeased with him. These contacts with Afrikaaners and Britishers--who insist on being called "Boss" or something equally demeaning--are typified in this encounter with the shrewish woman who hires, then summarily fires, Zach as her houseboy...
WHAT MAKES Come Back Africa so very remarkable is not the predictable plot line, but several unusual features of its making. First, of course, is the secrecy in which it was made. Rogosin, his crew, and the actors risked their "freedom" to making this film. Second, though none of the actors in the film (save one) was a professional at the time, the performances are by and large excellent. The only professional is Miriam Makeba, who is inserted in the film near the end--breaking up an intriguing political discussion--to sing a few of the songs that would make...