Word: fink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arthur Fink, a graduate student and a volunteer for the American Friends Service Committee, narrated "The Automated Battlefield," a NEARMIC slide presentation which depicts camouflaged anti-personnel mines, bombs guided by television signals, and helicopters equipped for sighting targets at night which have been designed to compensate for the reduction of actual American fighting manpower...
Helicopters equipped with infra-red sighting which were designed for use in Vietnam have already been used in domestic police work, Fink said, and one Pentagon associate has suggested the use of electronic signal bracelets and tracking equipment to watch over released convicts, parolees and prisoners on bail...
...difficulty comes from the script, by Harry and R.M. Fink, which fails to disguise its Hollywood origins. More legend than plot, the story fumbles when it wanders away from its central combat. The cops speak a special kind of cinematic tough talk. Exit lines sound like clever phrases the messieurs Fink have spent weeks sweating out. The speech of a policeman's wife takes a few perfunctory swipes at social commentary, but the film's heart is elsewhere, splashing in the gore...
Directed by DON SIEGEL Screenplay by HARRY JULIAN FINK, R.M. FINK and DEAN RIESNER...
...just hypothetical--it's killing, wounding, or displacing 138,000 civilians each month. All power to the peaceful people. Arthur Fink...