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...Minsk generally carries 15 Forger Yak-36 VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) planes and 20 Kamov Ka-25 helicopters. The Forger rises and descends on a vertical column of air blown downward by two jet engines. Western analysts have not yet fully evaluated its functions, but it seems to carry antisubmarine weapons and both air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles. The copters appear to be designed primarily to attack submarines, but also have equipment that can guide surface-to-surface missiles launched from the carrier itself. The vessel has four launchers that can fire missiles with a range...
...ticket, watched dumbfounded as West German Boxer George Butzbach put the puffing champ on the ropes with a series of sharp counterpunches. A winded Ali never did finish another match with former European Champion Karl Mildenberger. As they said after World War II, All's ka-putt in Deutschland...
...Muslims believe the Ka'ba is the spot where Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Ishmael at God's command." According to Genesis 22:2, it was Isaac whom Abraham prepared to sacrifice. Have the Muslims decided that it was Ishmael, not Isaac, whom Abraham prepared to sacrifice...
...first place. It is a dour period piece about miscegenation in the South Seas more than a half-century ago, in which the daughter (Mia Farrow) of Pago Pago's American military governor (Jason Robards) falls for the proud native prince of a nearby is land (Dayton Ka'ne, winner of a talent search in which everyone should have looked harder). The only hope for Hurricane would have been turning it into a send-up of the old tropical lagoony genre...
Still, all this has a bit more energy than the affair between Farrow and Ka'ne, who after endless delays are mostly directed to nibble each other's necks and take decorously clothed swims and beach walks to demonstrate their affection. Swedish Film Maker Jan Troell, who has made terse, beautiful movies (The Emigrants, The New Land), here seems merely distant and befuddled, as does his usually superb cameraman, Sven Nykvist. The poorly shot concluding hurricane is supposed to be a sort of heavenly analogy to human passions we have been witnessing at play. In the circumstances...