Word: pollack
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Hussein, hardly the shrewd calculator that critics of the Bush administration’s policies have portrayed, has demonstrated a remarkable willingness to risk both his hold on power and his life on foreign gambits that had little chance of success. As Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA analyst, pointed out in a New York Times op-ed piece, Hussein, believing Iraq could dominate its larger neighbor, started a bloody eight-year war with Iran that decimated his army and almost caused his government to fall. By 1988, the final year of the war against Iran, Iraq was riven with rebellion...
...past few weeks the CIA has opened two stations in Iraqi Kurdistan, one in Salahaddin, the principal town controlled by the K.D.P., and one in Suleimaniyah, the P.U.K.'s stronghold. "They're basically there as liaison" between Washington and the Kurdish leadership, says the Brookings Institution's Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA and National Security Council staff member on Iraq issues...
...with armed resistance: armed, that is, with papers in triplicate and stern shakes of the head. The producers had to meet with the local People's Committees and let Vietnamese censors pore over the script by Christopher Hampton and Robert Schenkkan. "Everything was an obstacle," says executive producer Sydney Pollack, who bought the rights to the novel in 1988 and thought of directing it himself before Noyce got the itch in 1995. "The permits were a nightmare. Moving equipment was a nightmare. The censors were a nightmare. You just had to be patient...
...Even before Sept. 11, Pollack and Noyce also had to suffer an unenthusiastic Hollywood. As Pollack recalls, "The first reaction anyone in America had was, 'We've done Vietnam.'" But they hadn't done the war of wills, the '50s debate of idealism and intervention, that led to the deaths of three million Vietnamese and 58,000 Americans. "We've had a lot of combat movies," Pollack notes. "We've had a lot of movies that have talked about how horrible and heartbreaking the war was. But we haven't had anything that looked at the attitude with which...
...make the movie, Pollack the American?and Noyce the Australian, Caine the Englishman, Fraser the Canadian and an international army of technicians led by Aussie picture-poet Christopher Doyle behind the camera?had to drift back to Vietnam. Again there were white men giving orders to yellow men, car bombs in a Saigon square, dangerous assignations in the jungle. The crew shut down Ho Chi Minh City's busiest square for a week, transforming it into the cyclo-filled Saigon of colonial days. They did the same a month later in Hanoi's Old Quarter, and then...