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Clancy first read of the incident in 1976, when the Washington Post carried an unconfirmed report. He got more details in 1982 from a master's thesis written by a student at the U.S. Naval Academy. Clancy acknowledges taking considerable dramatic license: his defecting submarine commander makes it safely to...
By Pravda's account, Donald F. was the real thing, motivated by ideology, vaulting ambition and derring-do. Upon arrest, the paper said, he showed no fear, telling his captors, "I was used to walking the knife's edge and could not imagine any other life for myself."
Now people have the chance to see two comedies that waft like zephyrs through a movie summer humid with macho derring-do. In their world, romance is bruised but blooming; and the characters are so fully drawn that the moviegoer can become possessive of them, even judgmental, as he would...
Moviegoers have two surrogate storytelling dads: George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Lucas, who dreamed up Star Wars for a generation of space cadets, is the mastermind of the Indiana Jones series. Spielberg directed the trilogy, which reaches its thrilling climax this week when Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade opens...
When he disappeared from Beirut in January 1963, after telling his wife he would meet her at a diplomatic dinner party that evening, Kim Philby was a relatively obscure British journalist. During the quarter-century between his defection to the Soviet Union, for which he had been spying since the...