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Fragments of evidence -- secret payments, cryptic cables, visits from high Iranian officials -- indicate that Khomeini's regime may be in close touch with the terrorists, if not managing them. The camps enjoy at least the tacit support of Syria as well, since the Bekaa Valley is controlled by Damascus. In a remarkably candid speech last week, Syrian President Hafez Assad conceded that Syria was in contact with extremist groups who are holding seven Americans, four Frenchmen and one Briton, seized over the past 18 months. Assad mildly rebuked the kidnapers for violating a "code of honor between combatants," but praised...
...history is more cryptic than that of Noah Cross (John Huston in Chinatown), ruthless Los Angeles pioneer, father to his own granddaughter and possible sire of Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai). He is the omnipotent wizard in Thomson's sinister Oz, an America whose center is located in Bedford Falls, Neb. It is a mythical place of lost innocence and the home of George Bailey, who watches SAC bombers over the cornfields of his youth and concludes that "America is just a story of its men and women going from happiness to stoicism...
...able to make progress in the offensive area while the defensive talks drag on inconclusively. No way, say the Soviets. The Geneva joint communique stressed that "all the questions" in the coming negotiations should be "considered and resolved in their interrelationship." Soviet diplomats say their side insisted on that cryptic phrase, and as they translate it, it means the U.S.S.R. will not agree to reductions in its offensive forces unless and until the U.S. accepts restrictions on defense...
LENA'S PASSAGE to India is remarkably faithful to a book whose themes are frequently cryptic and complex. It takes advantage of much or Forster's lively dialogue and, unlike many adaptations, does not chop out major portions of plot from the original book...
...Schwarzenegger, he nicely fleshes out the convention of a soulless gun for hire. With his choppy hair, cryptic shades and state-of-the-'80s leather ensemble, he looks like the Incredible Hulk gone punk. Some day he and Supergirl should get together in a winner-take-all hybrid sequel. These two could make beautiful music together-say, America the Beautiful rendered in teeny-bopper heavy metal...