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...count on their support if he declares statehood on his own. Behind the scenes, U.S. diplomats have been conferring with the governments on Arafat's itinerary, pleading with them to discourage a statehood declaration and to press the Palestinian leader to be more flexible on who controls Jerusalem, the hangup at Camp David...
Barely two hours before Air Force One left Washington on Tuesday, Ireland's Prime Minister John Bruton arrived in London for an unexpected late-night news conference with Major. The two leaders announced a twin-track initiative to get the peace talks moving again. The hangup had been British insistence that the ira begin turning in its guns and explosives before Sinn Fein could join all-party talks aimed at creating a new governmental structure for the North. The ira had steadfastly refused...
...film's major hangup is its confused characterization of evil. The devil (David Warner a la Ming the Merciless) tries to encompass all evil but fails to conjure anything but pity for his campy lines. Margaret Hamilton's witch in Oz terrified children of all ages; she never diluted her rottenness. Yet Gilliam has exorcised the seriousness out of where it belongs and makes the devil and his cohorts buffoons, wearing garbage bags over their capes and muttering things about advanced technology. Gilliam intends the plastic and electronics, which were also prominent in Kevin's living room, to personify evil...
...increases on the continent. Colin Winter, the exiled bishop of Namibia (South West Africa) divides all Christians into the "church of the oppressor and the church of the oppressed." Says Winter sourly: "I don't think a Polish Pope can understand Africa. His attitudes are extremely reactionary. His hangup is Communism, Communism...
...article "Football as Erotic Ritual" [Nov. 13] is really the pits. Sexual symbolism and ritual could be applied to most any activity if that's your hangup. Give the jocks and their fans a break. Forget the kinky gimmicks...