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...steady downward slope of Duarte's tenure could be charted from one October to the next. His first October, in 1984, was a time of triumph as he strode into the small town of La Palma for the first of three meetings with leftist rebel leaders. A year later, as hostilities continued, tragedy hit home when Duarte's eldest daughter, Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, was kidnaped and held by rebels for 30 days. That October, Duarte personally supervised the complex negotiations that secured Ines' freedom, briefly abandoning his tough line with the guerrillas and freeing 25 political prisoners in exchange...
...warning chilled Japanese booksellers in Tokyo who last week began selling a translation of Rushdie's work. When Gianni Palma, who arranged the publication and promotion of the book, tried to speak at a press conference, he was attacked by a Pakistani...
Based on a real-life incident, Brian De Palma's Casualties of War, starring Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox, performs a gritty diagnostic test on the national conscience...
CASUALTIES OF WAR Directed by Brian De Palma; Screenplay by David Rabe...
...story, recounted in a grinding, realistic style that is unlike Brian De Palma's usual manner of playing fast and loose with death, is simple to describe. A small unit under the command of a Sergeant Meserve (Sean Penn, in an uncompromising performance) sets off on a long-range reconnaissance mission. On Meserve's orders, it stops at a peasant village, where it abducts a young girl and sadistically binds and gags her for the many awful hours of their trek. The girl, who is heartbreakingly played by a delicate newcomer named Thuy Thu Le, will serve as "portable...