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...late spring and summer of 1942 would be a black time for the Soviet Union. An attempt to retake the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea failed. In May three Russian armies, the vanguard of a planned counteroffensive in Ukraine, were routed by German mechanized units in Kharkov. The Germans claimed to have captured 200,000 prisoners...
...cast of suspects, though mercifully limited, is boringly predictable and unimaginative. There's the mayor's money-hungry dingbat second wife Malvina, well-jiggled by Anita Morris, and her lover business manager Perry Kerch (Scott Wilson) who spends his time working out in the gym and supervising some of the late mayor's more unsavoury investments, including a dog track and a gambling house-cum-bordello...
...GOOD GUYS aren't much more interesting. There's the requisite good-buddy-from-High School (David Caruso) who's been roughed up by Kerch and needs to be convinced by Billy that truth, justice, revenge and the American way can triumph over the odds. The good-ole-boy Sheriff (Paul Winfield) who respected Billy's Dad and hence is willing to look the other way when Billy and pal Eddie commit a string of crimes ranging from destruction of private property to grand theft to manslaughter in order to get their man, rounds out the posse...
...reported. At about the same time, El Tor also cropped up in Egypt. After that, the disease spread rapidly, partly as an unhappy dividend from the Middle East conflict. Soviet sailors returning from Egyptian ports may have carried El Tor to the Soviet Black Sea ports of Odessa and Kerch, where 101 cases have been reported. More recently, the disease has cropped up in Jordan, Iraq and Syria. Israel has reported 33 cases, Lebanon 30 and Libya 28. A Togolese businessman died of cholera in Ghana last week, and medical authorities in Kenya have isolated a suspected cholera victim...
...city of Kerch, Russia, all the schoolchildren were ordered out for a walk one day. Afterwards, when they were hungry and cold, hot coffee and cake were distributed to them. Both coffee and cake had been poisoned. The children died...