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...closely tied Corde had made it as a journalist while still very young, heading back to academe in mid-life to finish his "reading." Now he is recalled to the real world by a bad, even lethal state of affairs. A graduate student is murdered on a hot summer night in sordid circumstances and Corde has to identify the body. Shaken in a way he had not expected--"his feelings took him by surprise"--the Dean is moved to action...
...taken. This vision of realpolitik looks too much like a fool's politik, and the U.S. is setting itself up for disaster. If we do not get duped to the tune of $8.5 billion, we still stand a strong chance of watching a huge amount of sophisticated and lethal hardware end up in hostile hands. Obviously, America will be dealing in arms with its allies and those it wishes to be its allies for some time. But the imprudence of the Reagans and the Weinbergers must...
Fisher at first told the jury that Adan had been stabbed-in an "accident"-with a knife that Adan had brought outside. But on the stand Abbott conceded that the lethal knife was his; indeed, he showed the jury how he had concealed it in the waistband of his jeans. He still insisted that he thought he saw Adan pull a knife and lunged self-protectively-but added that as Adan staggered backward after the stabbing, "that's when I saw there was nothing in his hand...
...more plausible than one in which the opening scene is a border conflict between the U.S.S.R. and China. The U.S. could all too easily be drawn in, now that it is forging an explicitly anti-Soviet "strategic friendship" with China and offering to sell the People's Republic lethal weaponry...
...peers to the brink of armed confrontation and beyond. What with Director Becker lingering too long over various photogenic ceremonies, and the writers pumping out yards of motivational dialogue. Taps takes far too long to reach its bloody, predictable conclusion. Its big guns are loaded with nothing more lethal than Hollywood nerve...