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...NATO contingency plan calling for 100,000 alliance troops to hold a land corridor from the Adriatic coast was rejected last week. Britain's Deputy Foreign Minister Douglas Hogg flew to Sarajevo to tell Bosnian President Izetbegovic "that there is no cavalry coming over the hill, that there is no international force coming...
...nausea. Chanticleer comes across as a fowl impersonation of Elvis Presley. Even his nickname is "The King". There is a ditzy Betty Boop love interest, and there is the smutty agent--the movie's only redeeming aspect--with voice hilariously rendered by Sorrell Booke, better known as "Boss Hogg" on the "Dukes of Hazzard." The writer even flirts with political correctness when he includes a pseudo feminist mouse...
...film, written and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, may seem schematic in the retelling. But on the screen it is charged with curious ironies and the edgy energy of barely suppressed panic. Its temporarily grounded jet-setters may seem rather remote figures. But in the playing they aren't as sophisticated as they would like to seem; and as they paint themselves deeper and deeper into a corner, one cannot help relating to them. Debt -- especially debt run up in pursuit of pleasures beyond one's means -- is, after all, one of the central subjects of middle-class life...
...even some disinterested observers have qualms about the tribunal. "This kind of thing is a mockery of the judicial process," says Quintin Hogg, Lord Hailsham, former Lord High Chancellor of Britain. "It is substituting trial by media for trial by courts." Simon Wiesenthal, the renowned Nazi hunter, also opposes the mock trial. "As soon as the international historians' commission had published its findings," he says, "the case should have become an affair for the Austrian voters only...
...father, a popular public housing inspector. Ryan, who drifted through a number of laborer jobs and was once employed in a gun shop, appeared to have had licenses for his personal arsenal. British officials immediately said they would review the country's gun-licensing laws. Said Douglas Hogg, Under Secretary of State at the Home Office: "Obviously, there are lessons to be learned from this incident...