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...real-life story of bankrupt Irishman who dreams of producing the operas Carcuso in the Brazilian jungle. To raise the necessary capital to back his production, he decides to cash in on the rubber boom by taking a steamship to virgin tracts of jungle, carrying it a mile overland to an otherwise inaccessible river. The real Fitzcarraldo (so named because the natives could not pronounce Fitzgerald) cut a 20-ton steamship into 15 pieces to accomplish his made task. Herzog, in his reenactment, does not regard that as enough of a challenge, opting to haul a 300-ton steamship...
Israeli and Christian forces allow the P.L.O. convoys to pass safely along the highway to Damascus. As a result of the meeting, the overland evacuation of the P.L.O. to Syria began on Friday when a convoy of trucks carrying celebrating guerrillas made the 70-mile trip to the outskirts of the Syrian capital...
...Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. The city's international airport was temporarily closed to civilian traffic for the first time since the war began in September 1980. Several Western embassies drew up emergency evacuation plans for getting their citizens to Jordan by overland routes. They remembered all too well that the staff of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, who supposedly enjoyed diplomatic immunity, spent 14 months as prisoners of the Iranian zealots now attacking Iraq...
Even the networks have been able to counter Israel's censors, albeit with delay and at considerable expense. Duplicate copies of tapes routinely have been sent overland to Syria or by boat to Cyprus for satellite transmission. Indeed, the only evident loser in the controversy has been Israel, whose image in the U.S. has surely not been enhanced by censorship labels on prime-time TV newscasts. Israeli officials argue that they are being subjected s to an unfair and inconsistent standard. Says Government Press Office Director Ze'ev Chafets: "We let the networks use our facilities for sending...
...weeks ago that the good Secretary of State himself told Congress that a different "Nicaraguan military man" had been captured in El Salvador after being sent there by the Nicaraguan Government to help the rebels. Mexican officials immediately claimed that the man was a student travelling from their country overland through El Salvador to his home in Nicaragua. Haig never introduced that guerrilla in public...