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Inside the stadium, where the usual phalanx of police with dogs and automatic weapons ringed the field before the game, the Soviet Union's hard-working Andrei Bal shocked the crowd of 70,000 when his shot was mishandled by Brazil's Goalie Waldir Peres Arruda. Then came a dazzling display of attacking, creative soccer. A player named Dr. Socrates B. Oliveira, 28, Brazil's physician-turned-forward and the squad's field general, came to life against the Soviets, who had trained near Moscow and were unprepared for the 86° heat of Seville. Socrates...
...scene was an all too familiar tintype of armed repression and political turmoil, a fitting symbol for the upheaval of the decade. Staccato bursts of gunfire echoed through the streets. Clouds of tear gas hung in the air. A phalanx of blue-shirted policemen, equipped with gas masks and steel helmets, blocked the avenue in downtown Guatemala City. They trained their rifles on the six unarmed men who were advancing, like prisoners of war, with their arms held high. One of them clutched a large manila folder. Its contents: a letter to Guatemala's outgoing President, General Fernando Romeo Lucas...
...neighbor. Standing on a red carpet at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport last week, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev kissed the uniformed visitor on each cheek as gaily dressed schoolchildren offered bouquets of roses and carnations. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's martial-law leader, then shook hands with the phalanx of Politburo members who had waited on the tarmac to greet...
...wife (Sissy Spacek) in a frustrating quest to find out what happened to his son (John Shea). Basing his narrative largely on Thomas Hauser's 1978 book, The Execution of Charles Horman (reissued in a new paperback as Missing), Costa-Gavras shows the pair running up against a phalanx of American diplomats who profess to be helping but who know all along that the Chilean military authorities have already murdered young Horman. Indeed, the movie goes so far as to suggest that an American official might have cosigned Horman's execution order. Nathaniel Davis, who was U.S. Ambassador...
...trial, a phalanx of heavyweight civil liberties lawyers, prepped by 60 scientific consultants, faced a far less-experienced Arkansas legal team. Last week the A.C.L.U. rolled out its case and it was crushing. The lead-off witness, United Methodist Bishop Kenneth Hicks, termed the bill a clear-cut "transgression of the First Amendment." University of Chicago Theologian Langdon Gilkey was unimpressed by the fact that the state law carefully did not mention God by name. Said he: "A creator is certainly a god if he brings the universe into existence from nothing...