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Yilmaz Güney is a national movie idol, a world-class moviemaker and a convicted murderer. There are many, in Turkey and in the international film community, who believe that these three eminences are related. Güney is a firebrand of his country's intellectual left. His films-slow, ruminative, defiantly indigenous-smolder with an ideologue's indignation and a poet's ironic compassion. For these heresies and others, Güney has spent half of his adult life in prison. In 1974, while filming a scene in a crowded restaurant in Adana...
...deserved the Defense Ministry post. Last summer he got it. Initially, the burly (5 ft. 6 in., 235 Ib.) Sharon surprised everyone with his low profile and relatively moderate statements. He set up a civil administration in the occupied West Bank. It seemed a puzzling policy for a military firebrand whose campaign against terrorism in the early 1970s included bulldozing roads through refugee camps in occupied Gaza and the Sinai. But by last month it was evident that Sharon's civil administration cloaked the toughest policy Israel had ever exercised in the occupied territories...
Druckman thus joined forces last week with the firebrand Geula Cohen and her two colleagues in the tiny, radical rightist Tehiya Party. In 1980 Cohen wrote legislation calling for de facto annexation of Arab-dominated East Jerusalem. Late last year she tabled a motion to annex the occupied Golan Heights. She would also like to annex the West Bank, but her main mission at the moment is to block the Sinai withdrawal. Says she: "The people of Israel are nervous. This national trauma will stay in our hearts and minds forever...
...With a couple of things going our way; we could be 8-1 now and everyone would be happier," adds the on-court firebrand...
Israeli extremists have argued for years that the heights should be annexed. A bill to do so was initiated more than a year ago by firebrand Knesset Member Geula Cohen. But in December 1980, Begin's Cabinet voted 15 to 2 against promoting the measure for fear of adverse world reaction. After the Prime Minister's cliffhanging election victory of last June, however, the Cabinet's mood began to change in a hawkish direction. Golan annexation had been one of the planks in Begin's election campaign, and, to fashion his two-seat majority...