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With war's end, and the onslaught of insularity in the '50s, many of the diaspora scattered again, finding refuge back home in European co-productions. Hollywood was retreating into familiar genres: into the memorial expanses of westerns like High Noon (directed by the Austrian Fred Zinnemann) or the paranoid apocalypse of science-fiction films like The War of the Worlds (produced by the Hungarian George Pal) or grandiose melodramas like Written on the Wind (directed by the Dane Douglas Sirk) or effervescent comedies like Some Like It Hot and The Apartment (both directed and co-written by the Austrian...
Berri had clearly underestimated the Palestinians' determination to resist the onslaught. From hilltops east of Beirut, Palestinian gunners belonging to anti-Arafat P.L.O. groups fired artillery and rocket volleys into Amal positions. Whatever their differences with Arafat, his P.L.O. opponents were furious at the strong-arm tactics of the Shi'ites. Said George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: "No force on earth can take away the arms of a people who defend their just cause." Abu Mousa, another leading P.L.O. dissident, accused Amal of "disseminating lies to cover its crimes against Palestinians." While...
...worst terrorist onslaught in any single day since India became independent 38 years ago. Within hours after the first bomb exploded, police blamed the rash of attacks on terrorists belonging to India's Sikh minority, which for the past three years has been agitating for greater autonomy. Sikh terrorists had last, and most spectacularly, struck in New Delhi on Oct. 31, 1984, when two bodyguards, both Sikhs, assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as she was walking from her residence to a television interview in her garden. Now, declared Home Minister S.B. Chavan, "a coordinated, well- planned operation has been launched...
Indian intelligence officials suggested last week that the latest wave of terrorism was being conducted under a unified command, and charged that given the sophistication of the onslaught, some of the terrorists were "foreign trained." Most of the explosive devices used in the attacks were hidden in transistor radios casually left in public places. Unsuspecting passersby picked them up and turned them on--and then the bombs exploded. Eyewitnesses said that shortly before the blasts in the terminal, a Sikh had boarded the bus, left a radio on a seat and got off just before departure time; similar accounts were...
...become the promotion battle of the century. Pepsi-Cola last week responded with a quick advertising onslaught to Coca-Cola's announcement that it had reconcocted its 99-year-old secret formula. Pepsi began the estimated $2.5 million campaign, produced by Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, with a 30-second prime-time spot that will be broadcast for a month on the three major networks. In the ad a wistful-looking teenage girl stares straight at the camera and says, "Would somebody out there tell me why Coke did it? Why they changed? They told us they were 'the real thing...