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...Englishman, hopelessly lost in deepest jungle, falls into the hands of an illiterate half-breed whose European father years before had left him a complete set of Dickens. The Englishman - vanished from civilization, lost to friends and family, presumed dead - lives on for years in the impenetrable Brazilian forest, held prisoner so that he might read Dickens aloud every afternoon to the brute with a taste for literature...
...that killing. The group knows the jungle intimately?far better than Manila's men in uniform. For days, the army had no idea where the group was. "The jungle is so dense in there that if you lob in mortars, they just explode harmlessly high up in the forest canopy," says former Interior Secretary Rafael Alunan. "And these Abu Sayyaf guys are unbelievable sharpshooters...
...unfortunate accidents persuade Monica to abandon David in a forest. Quick as a face slap, David and the audience are in a strange new world containing refugee robots with half-faces and a jaunty "love mecha" named Gigolo Joe (Law). In Kubrick's script, says Law, "Joe was much more aggressive, more twisted." Here he is, in Spielberg's word, David's "scoutmaster." (This was the section Kubrick could not solve and which Spielberg, in developing it, has softened. The Kubrick version would have been rated R; this film...
...Moscow's woes, German Ugryumov, deputy director of the FSD (Federal Security Service) and the man in overall charge of the pacification of Chechnya, died of an apparent heart attack at the main Russian base just outside Grozny. With the coming of spring, and the return of forest cover, Russian commanders predicted an upsurge of ambushes in the countryside. Instead, the ambushes have occurred in the cities-three paramilitary police were killed in Grozny last week after they called home from a phone office; five police and soldiers were shot in the market the same day. The guerrilla units' small...
...though, neither joke nor predict a swift victory. When Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov is asked how long the conflict will last, he answers with a question of his own. "How long did it take to eliminate the Lithuanian partisans after World War II?" The analogy is surprising-the Lithuanian "forest brothers" are now heroes in their homeland. And the answer is not encouraging for the once-upbeat generals. It took almost 10 years for a battle-hardened Soviet military to crush the partisans...