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...they recognized the group's mustachioed leader, a burly officer wearing the shiny three-cornered hat and green uniform of the paramilitary Civil Guards. He was Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina, 49, a notorious far-rightist who had already served seven months for a stillborn 1978 plot to kidnap key Cabinet members and spark a military takeover. Neither Tejero's methods nor goals seemed to have changed much since then. Brandishing his heavy service revolver, he commandeered the podium and issued a peremptory statement: the Cortes was to be abolished forthwith, and "a competent military authority" would arrive...
...treat that causes green saliva to ooze from the mouths of sweet-toothed kids. Instead, the filmmakers concentrate on a hackneyed sub-plot about the Organization for World Management, a sinister group of slick, young corporate types who plot to control the world by shrinking the masses. They kidnap poor Pat to run experiments on her, but, with the help of a gorilla (yes, another smart movie gorilla), she tries to escape and tell all of the terrible conspiracy. What happened to the clever social commentary, the biting satire? What happened to the attacks on advertising and the tube? Maybe...
...Doralee (Dolly Parton) is frilly, Vi (Lily Tomlin) is sensible. Together, though, they are a Stenographic catastrophe; they'd lose the quick-brown-fox race to Charlie's Angels. Vi, "the smart one," thinks she has poisoned her insufferable boss; she hasn't. The three then kidnap a cadaver from the hospital, thinking they've got their boss in the car trunk; they haven't. The movie is just as absentmindedly schizophrenic. Nine to Five thinks it's a suspenseful comedy with a mind of its own; it isn't and hasn...
...Iranian militants have resorted to systematic brainwashing. What has probably happened, at least with some of the hostages, is a degree of identification with their captors-a temporary reaction often referred to as the "Stockholm syndrome."* Says Stanford University's Donald T. Lunde, a psychiatrist who has treated Kidnap Victim Patty Hearst: "I'd expect the hostages to have some quite positive feelings for their captors for the single reason that these people have been playing a parental role with them and kept them in a dependent state." As a result, says Lunde, "they'll be making...
Investigators tended to give credence to the claim that the blast was the work of neoFascists, or so-called black terrorists, because of the mindless nature of the crime. Leftist terrorism tends to strike with selective assassinations, like the kidnap-murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro two years ago, Cossiga himself explained to the senate last week. "Black terrorism prefers the massacre because it promotes panic and impulsive reactions." The worst previous incident of terrorism in Italy, in fact, had been the 1969 bombing of a Milan bank that is widely regarded as the start of political terrorism...