Word: defectiveness
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When 57 wounded Cubans were returned to Havana, Western journalists were permitted to interview some in their hospital beds. Most claimed that on Grenada they had been asked whether they would like to defect to the U.S. They contended that they had received no advance warning of the U.S. invasion-a claim that conflicts with Castro's report that he sent warning to "Cuban representatives in Grenada" on the Saturday before the Tuesday strike. Even the U.S. State Department told Havana just hours before the invasion that the strike was imminent, assuring Castro that it was not aimed...
Havana in addition is preparing Cuban and world opinion for the possibility that some Cuban prisoners in Grenada might defect to the U.S. That has not happened yet, but Castro evidently fears it will and is seeking to soften the blow by dismissing any defections in advance as the result of U.S. psychological coercion. A government communique charges that American interrogators are "using every possible means to undermine the morale" of the prisoners, telling them that Cuba does not want them back and offering them political asylum...
...competition as a refuge from the troubles afflicting mankind. Probably since 776 B.C., but certainly since 1936, the summer of Adolf Hitler's Nazi festival, the games have been irresistible forums for social, racial and political causes (as well as a handy time for athletes from totalitarian states to defect). There was pause on the part of some countries as to whether they wished to party with the Third Reich. But the I.O.C. assured everyone that it had met with Hitler and "no one since the Greeks had captured the Olympic spirit so well...
...short, the movie is anything but slick in structure or glib in tone. But that is far from a defect. In fact, the best thing about it is the serious but never sobersided spirit in which it was made. In the first memo he wrote about the project, Writer-Director Philip Kaufman, 46, mentioned some movies he admired, such as The Searchers and The Grand Illusion, and said he would strive for their rambling, episodic quality, in which " 'truth' is found along the way." In the end, that is exactly what he achieved...
...tried to contact the intruder" on the frequency assigned for international emergencies, but there is no evidence of this in the published transcripts. President Reagan charged that Soviet planes are not equipped with the emergency radio frequencies because the Kremlin fears they might be used to allow pilots to defect. The Soviets deny this. In fact, Soviet aircraft have the capability to use the emergency frequencies while participating in air and sea rescues with NATO planes. Whether the Soviets were so equipped this time may be beside the point, since there is no indication that the Korean plane, which seems...