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...second portion of the movie, the plot assumes a sense of urgency when the crew saves a group of shipwrecked Serbians atempting to flee the Austrians presently ravishing their country. While at first the entourage resent the peasants' intrusion, they gradually develop a fascination and sympathetic affection for the newcomers. Disaster looms imminent, however, when an Austrian battleship accosts the liner demanding that it hand over the refugees. The closing scene where the passengers defiantly sing to the sounds of cannons fittingly foreshadows a century where man's destruction has often outdistanced his creativity...
Much of the present flurry has its origins in the 1973 Arab oil embargo, which persuaded many motorists to flee long gas lines for less frustrating subways and buses. The mounting energy crisis also spurred the Federal Government to provide up to 50% of transit systems' operating costs. Until then, money had been available only for capital and planning assistance. One result of this increased federal largesse was an investment spree in capital-intensive projects such as subways and electrified rail. There were some less benign results: fares well under the actual cost of service, leading inevitably...
...workers to ease the mounting problems it faced trying to provide work for its own population. Some 700,000 ethnic Somalis, victims of a protracted war with Ethiopia, live in refugee camps within Somalia. The Sudan shelters another 637,000 refugees, including secessionist Eritreans who have been forced to flee Marxist-oriented Ethiopia, as well as 200,000 Ugandans. The Ugandan refugees have fled in two waves: those escaping the brutal policies of former Dictator Idi Amin in the '70s and those who have recently left Uganda to avoid President Milton Obote's military "cleanup" operations...
...Night of the Shooting Stars. In 1944, a score of Tuscan villagers flee from the Nazis into a landscape of nightmare poetry. Italian Film Makers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani find aspects of nobility in every eccentric peasant...
...Jersey's thunder had its echoes across the Middle East and beyond. In Tripoli, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and 4,000 loyalists were preparing to flee. In the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut, Israeli troops helped evacuate Christian civilians and Phalangist militiamen from a town besieged by Druze forces for the past three months. Some 900 miles to the southeast, in the gulf state of Kuwait, terrorists unleashed a wave of suicide attacks that bore the increasingly familiar fingerprints of spreading Shi'ite fanaticism...