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...Israeli armed forces. Some of them were disillusioned settlers, and some were Jewish militants recruited in the U.S. Five boatloads of additional recruits attempted to reach Yamit last week, but four of the boats were blocked by the Israeli navy. The zealots claimed to have built a makeshift fortress for themselves in Yamit, and threatened to fight off Israeli efforts to remove them...
Since the Israelis forcibly reunified Jerusalem in 1967, the population has climbed from 275,000 to 407,000, and more than 1.1 million visitors pour in every year. The fortress-like apartment towers clustered on the once bare hills surrounding the city now extend to the very edge of the desert wilderness where Satan tempted Jesus; and though the walled Old City surrounding the holy shrines is still redolent of cinnamon and roasting lamb and hashish and donkey turds, the twisting alleys leading onto the Via Dolorosa (Sorrowful Way) are covered with paving stones rather than mud. Even the cats...
...down. Bertolucci humbles his but is unable to create a tragic hero out of him, for Primo learns nothing, having known all along that he is slightly ridiculous. From his vantage point at the film's outset--living in an expensive villa modeled after the local medieval fortress--he realizes fully that his social status is out of proportion with hsi real needs. Still, no matter how ludicrous his self-image of the little man thrust into power. Primo feels no shame for his materialistic desires until circumstances force him to choose between the good life and his son Modest...
...generally are too shallow to interest adults. Dynasty, a promising maze puzzle based on the Chinese game Go, is too easy to be interesting. Cryptologic is a not-very-mystifying letter substitution code. Alien Invaders?Plus shows one imaginative quirk, a tiny figure that flees in terror when its fortress is destroyed, but otherwise is an uninspired copy of Space Invaders...
...immediate and nationwide suffrage; in Mozambique, Angola and most recently, in Zimbabwe, whites left in droves, fearing reverse discrimination. In the past five years, the white population of Zimbabwe has dropped from about 300,000 to 180,000. White desertion psychologically hurts remaining whites, instilling in many a fortress mentality. And the tremendous loss of skilled white manpower can devastate newly independent states. In many post-independent states, complicated machinery cannot be fixed because all the skilled repairmen have left. Only about ten skilled fitters and turners remain in all of Zimbabwe...