Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot is simple young, fabulously wealthy, wildly extravagant and supposedly beautiful Eve Tozer (Bess Armstrong) stops doing the Charleston on Istanbul tabletops long enough to learn that she has 12 days to lind her long lost father. Should she fail to exhibit him in a British court in that time he will be declared dead, and the company fortune will devolve upon daddy's evil partner Bentik (Robert Morlev) The prospect propels her into a harrowing two-week adventure in which hundreds of extras die and she herself narrowly escapes a dozen terrible ends. Along for the ride is Patrick...
...even when she and Selleck are at their best, their characters trap them; the unflappable flapper and the hard-bitten ex-ace with a heart of gold never grow beyond stereotypes. Eve can that only dance and break hearts, but she can stunt-fly and shoot as well as the war veteran. (Mercifully, no one ever actually says, "Just like a man!," but it's the insinuation that counts.) O'Malley, for his part, can not only drink and seduce woman, but he can stunt-fly and shoot almost as well as Eve. As the mercenary-who's-really...
...Managua Mass, he showed last week that he was no friend of anti-Communists who violate human rights. During a private meeting at Guatemala's National Palace, he chastised the President, General Efrain Rios Montt, for executing six men, who had been convicted of subversive activity, on the eve of the papal visit. The Pontiff saved some of his strongest criticism of injustice for a Mass attended by President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier in Haiti...
...supremacy in Guatemala. Although church leaders give Rios Montt credit for bringing a rare measure of honesty to the country's government, his brutal crackdown on insurgents has drawn deserved fire from the Catholic hierarchy. Some Catholic leaders saw his decision to proceed with the six executions on the eve of the papal visit as a deliberate affront to the Vatican. Warned the apostolic nuncio to Guatemala City: "The deplorable incident which took place so near to the projected visit of Pope John Paul II is considered by the Holy See as incredible for its possible grave repercussions...
Alarmed NASA technicians then investigated Challenger's other engines. On Feb. 25 they found a hydrogen leak in the No. 2 engine. A day or so later, the same kind of leak turned up in the No. 3 engine. Faced with this mounting crisis on the eve of a launch, Abrahamson rushed out to the pad, clambered up the launch tower and personally inspected the inner plumbing of the engines. It became clear that NASA's original fix had only exacerbated the problem: instead of preventing chafing during the vibrations at full power, the brazing and extra sleeves...