Word: hideout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setting up three concentration camps in the capital in possible preparation for the internment of tens of thousands of Eritreans who live there. In case serious fighting breaks out in the city, the junta was reported to be moving Haile Selassie from the National Palace to a secret hideout in the country. The military rulers do not want the former Emperor to be killed, because they know that they would be blamed for his death, and they are still acutely sensitive to the reaction of other African leaders to his fate...
...work-so De Funès must extricate himself all on his own. Meanwhile, near the crash scene a gang of Middle Eastern terrorists chases after one of their political leaders, trying to torture information about the underground out of him. De Funès stumbles on their hideout, hooks up with the leader, is chased by the terrorists, shows up at the airport, switches identities with a couple of Orthodox rabbis-his chauffeur's relatives-is transported to an enormous welcoming celebration, is asked to preside over a bar mitzvah, all the while being chased by the terrorists...
...equipped with helicopters, tear gas, bullets, and fragmentation grenades to overcome six amateur gunmen trapped in a single house. Nor is there any excuse for the police to have totally ignore the safety of the community. A crippled woman sitting on the porch next door to the SLA's hideout had to be helped to cover when the shooting began without previous warning...
Finally, it's easy to guess whether the police would have so cavalierly destroyed the SLA's hideout had its members fled to a stucco mansion like the Hearsts' in Hillsborough rather than to the modest home of a black family living on the edges of a southeast Los Angeles ghetto. That the police should have appeared "the good guys" on television was ironic, all the more so because California authorities are using SLA activities as an excuse for rounding up dozens of Bay area radicals on unverified charges...
...when they converged on the hideout on Friday morning, no one was there. Left behind were some clothing, boots, wigs for disguise and two boxes of shotgun shells...