Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Desert Fox or Dead Lion...
...fate of Bangladesh, and of Pakistan itself, was being decided in the East, Indian and Pakistani forces were making painful stabs at one another along the 1,400-mile border that reaches from the icy heights of Kashmir through the flat plains of the Punjab down to the desert of western India. There the battle was being waged by bearded Sikhs wearing khaki turbans, tough, flat-faced Gurkhas, who carry a curved knife known as a kukri in their belts, and many other ethnic strains. Mostly, the action was confined to border thrusts by both sides to straighten out salients...
South of Sehjra, Indian armored units have been plowing through sand across the West Pakistan border, taking hundreds of square miles of desert and announcing the advance of their troops to places that apparently consist of two palm trees and a shallow pool of brackish water. Among the enemy equipment reported captured: several camels. The reason behind this rather ridiculous adventure is the fear that Pakistan will try to seize large tracts of Indian territory to hold as ransom for the return of East Bengal. That now seems an impossibility with Bangladesh an independent nation, but India wants to have...
...second part of the film begins as the rider abandons his son for the woman, who demands, as a condition of her love, that he show himself to be the greatest man by killing the Four Great Masters of the Desert. He calls her Mara, which, he says, is what the Israelites called the bitter water they found in the desert. (Mara is also the name of the tempter of the Buddha.) She, along with every other woman in the movie, is portrayed as evil; all are vain, selfish, deceitful. There is only one exception, a midget, who is childish...
...refuses to die and picks up a gun and again, as the avenger, kills all the townspeople. The only survivors are his dwarf wife, their newborn son, and his priest son. The penitent pours kerosene over himself and self-immolates, leaving the other three to ride off into the desert, and keep civilization going (or perhaps star in a sequel...