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...Manhattan's Upper West Side, but it soon takes on the sulfurous glow of the lower depths: a rush-hour subway car, say, some time during World War III. Junkies, hookers, drag queens, derelicts, ganefs and hit men rub up against Joe (Danton Stone) and Darlene (Laurie Metcalf), a couple too amiable or dense to survive the Nighttown scene till morning. "They every one of them steal," one denizen grumbles, and steal they do: money, drugs, a cup of coffee, a shred of strutting self-respect, another minute of free-for-all banter before collapsing in sleep or death...
...Mark Metcalf, 35, of Berkeley, Calif., endured weeks of pain that "felt like I had a hot iron held against the side of my neck," and he found himself "considering suicide as a rational alternative." Every year a number of the chronically suffering make that choice. Pain, said Albert Schweitzer, "is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself...
...BLEW THEM AWAY," gleefully announced Admiral Joseph Metcalf III, the commander of U.S. forces in Grenada, as some of the 6000 American troops began withdrawing from the island. Indeed, the Pentagon completed most of its military objectives on the first few days of the two-week war. Meanwhile, our embarrassed European allies deplored the invasion; our delighted adversaries quickly racked up much-needed propaganda points. The legality of U.S. intervention will remain forever unresolved, the battle lines fiercely drawn along ideological lines. Perhaps now is the time to distance ourselves from this bickering and begin to examine the future...
...liberators to interrogators--strikes a dissonant chord in the Administration's glossy public relations campaign. And it arouses a lingering suspicion of ultimate U.S. objectives and policies for the country. One could argue that a combat environment justifies extraordinary measures, including the suspension of personal rights. But as Admiral Metcalf eloquently noted, serious military opposition evaporated soon after the initial American assault. Military action continues only in the form of occasional sniper fire in the wooded areas. That the temporary Grenadian government would resort to nonexistent hostilities as a convenient excuse to restrict democratic rights only strengthens the position...
...commander of that force majeure, and of the Second Fleet, was Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III, Annapolis-trained ('51) and a recipient of the Legion of Merit. He made no secret of the fact that he was responsible for the censorship-and made no apologies either. Said Metcalf to protesting reporters: "I'm down here to take an island. I don't need you running around and getting in the way." And to anyone who tried it, he added a personal shot across the bows: "We'll stop you. We've got the means...