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Tears and Fire. Fifteen minutes from the city, the skyjackers radioed for permission to land and were refused. Arguing heatedly, they threatened to blow up the plane in the air. Libyan officials finally relented. The Japanese terrorist told the passengers that the skyjacking had been done for the "whole of the world." It was also intended to expose the "imperialism" of Israel, Germany, the U.S. and Japan. Then he started to weep and apologized for "causing everyone so much inconvenience." When the last passenger had left the plane, the skyjackers set fire to it. Reports TIME'S Joseph Fitchett...
...times - they grew up together. They've got 11 years more experience behind them than Connors or Stockton, and they have played a whole history on the revolving wheel that Connors and Stockton have just begun to ride. Ashe looks distant, self-absorbed, steeling himself to concentration. After fifteen years he faces another match with another bout of pre-game nerves. He is called, jumps up skittishly and disappears. Then Graebner, big and bull-boned, saunters in and sinks heavily into the chair Ashe just vacated. He stares into space slowly tapping his foot...
...village, perhaps ten to fifteen huts, had clearly been abandoned in a hurry. But there was no obvious sign of a firefight-no bullet marks in the tree stumps or huts. It would require nothing less than a team of forensic experts to track down any evidence of a massacre...
ALAS, when we come to the two main players, there isn't a hint of virtuosity. If the AST wanted to import someone to play just the single role of Macbeth this summer, why pick Fritz Weaver? Fifteen years ago Weaver attempted Hamlet here, without much success. He hasn't improved in the interim...
MAYBE THIS LACK of spontaneity is deliberate. What I've noticed since Diamonds are Forever is a trend toward genre self parody. There is much tongue in cheekiness here. The final chase sequence, a fifteen minute combined car-boat chase through the Louisiana bayous, even manages to introduce and develop a major character, a sheriff tightly based on the Dodge Sheriff of advertisement fame...