Word: defections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maelstrom stood one Miroslav Medved, a 25-year-old Ukrainian seaman who on Oct. 24 jumped from a Soviet freighter into the Mississippi River near New Orleans. Immigration officials questioned Medved through a Justice Department interpreter, via telephone. According to the officials, Medved said he did not want to defect. Later, the interpreter said that they had misunderstood...
...TRANSLATE. Medved didn't like his life in the Soviet Union, so he tried to defect ("suffered an adjustment disorder"). When his defection attempt failed he was disappointed ("situationally related depression"). Trying to escape again--or as punishment for trying the first time--he was beaten ("agitation and a suicidal attempt/gesture"). He fought back ("hypomanic excitement...
...Navy Pilot Xiao's dramatic escape in his Chinese-built version of a Soviet Ilyushin Il-28. The pilot said he was dissatisfied with life in China because he had been passed over for promotion for not being a loyal party member. He was the fourth Chinese pilot to defect to South Korea in the past three years...
Xiao, who was taken to the hospital with injuries to his spinal cord and intestines, said he wanted to go to Taiwan. Earlier this year a Chinese torpedo boat and its crew, who had mutinied and tried to defect to South Korea, were sent home by the Seoul government. But this time South Korea has announced that only the navigator will be repatriated to China. Xiao will presumably be allowed to go to Taiwan...
...answer, of course, is a little of both. The virtue and the defect of this essentially good-natured movie is that its script, by Joel Schumacher and Carl Kurlander, does not play a steady light on any of its several stories, but bounces erratically from one to another like -- well, like St. Elmo's fire. The shifting prevents the movie from getting bogged in the banal, but it also prevents it from achieving much emotional resonance...