Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some Western military observers believe that the Soviets also helped the Arabs plan the offensive against Israel. In the days before Yom Kippur, the wives and children of Soviet advisers left Egypt and Syria, which suggests that Moscow knew the exact date of the planned attack. The speed with which the Soviets organized the complex resupply flights to the Arabs also indicates that the Russians were prepared for the war. Ready also were several of Russia's Cosmos satellites, which after launching orbited 180 miles above the Middle Eastern battlefields providing Moscow with important photographs of the battle...
Ferreri follows a straightforward method: He begins with decadence, then pushes it to its extreme. His timing is exact, always cutting away from a scene once depravity is well established, never carrying on for the sake of prurience. Followed properly, this method would shock, never titillate, but the double standards of soft-core pornography weaken The Grande Bouffe. The simulated sex becomes funny in otherwise serious scenes. The film leads from abuse of food to abuse of bodies, but the bodies are less real than the food, so the progression falls flat. A similar problem occurs in suggesting Michel Piccoli...
...military occupation of some Arab oil fields. Much more constructively, the West could form a consumers' cooperative that would allocate supplies among nations. The U.S. has made some attempts in this direction, but they have not got far. There is, in fact, a strong danger that the exact opposite will happen: consuming countries would bid against each other for available Arab oil, starting a kind of worldwide auction...
...estimated 11 million people were murdered by the Hitler regime. The Indochina death toll is less exact, but it ranges somewhere between 1 1/2 to 2 million. The questions remain, but in a different formulation. For we are the Germans now, and all the Elliot Richardsons we can produce cannot save us from our guilt...
...ROTC on the grounds that it is undemocratic to prevent those who want ROTC training from getting it is completely invalid for this reason: Public funds in large amounts are used in order to sustain the ROTC, which not only renders no public service, but does the exact opposite. This argument, it seems to me, is just as invalid as would be the argument that public funds should be paid to potential criminals in orders to prevent them from robbing banks...