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When Ford looked back over the week's events, he told associates that he was pleased with the execution of the rescue. The National Security Council, his aides and the military had functioned well. Yet the President ordered a review to see what lessons were to be learned. There were...
While the film's intention is basically problematic, its execution hopelessly confuses the issue of individual responsibility for the deportation. The hero is, in fact, a thoroughly self-indulgent overprivileged youth, whose motivations fluctuate between a need to shore up his self-esteem by playing at heroism and a desire...
Schanberg, 41, learned the extent of the personal risk he had taken on the very first day of the Communist takeover. When he and some other journalists went to observe the grisly conditions at the city's largest civilian hospital, they were stopped by Khmer Rouge troops. "They put...
"I have to make a real effort to call them my adoptive parents," says Robert, the younger Meeropol. "It feels like an unnatural act to me." He is talking about Songwriter Abel Meeropol and his wife Anne, who lost their own two children at birth and took the frightened Rosenberg...
Radcliffe emerged from the intermission with the execution of a well-rehearsed Barb-Matson-from-Rhodes play to give the visitors a 4-2 lead.