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For Papadopoulos and his fellow colonels, that had been a heavy blow: dissension within the military-upon which their power rests-could bring them down. The subsequent purge has involved at least 50 line officers in the lieutenant commander, commander and captain ranks-a third of the officers in those...
"The hour for revolutionary action has struck, and the purge has begun."
Unfortunately, however, John Hopkins' script almost immediately starts dropping broad hints on this matter too. Flash cuts and dialogue indicate Connery cannot purge his mind of the dirty pictures left there by previous investigations of violent crimes. They are pulling him toward a psychopathy as profound as any he...
Sirik Matak's proposal appears amenable to the position outlined by Prince Sihanouk on March 23, 1970, although the very complexity of the Cambodian situation would appear to work against a rapprochement. It is difficult to determine whether Sirik Matak is sincere about his proposal or if he will ever...
Such gestures may seem absurd to foreigners, but Gaddafi justifies them as a return to Islamic principles of old. "When we do these things," he says, "we purge ourselves of impurity that is a product of imperialism and return to the true values of Islam." Gaddafi still lives in a...