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...leftists had raped women, robbed banks, raided ammunition dumps, blown up factories, hijacked military vehicles and disrupted rail traffic. According to other reports, disturbances have also occurred in Hupei, Honan and Shansi provinces as well as in Fukien, where 12,000 troops had to be sent to quell followers of the Gang of Four, who were "disturbing the army" and "sabotaging the party's unified leadership." Radio broadcasts have also reported that "criminal gangs are threatening public order" in Chekiang province...
This is the year's inescapable movie. Nothing anyone says about it is going to quell the curiosity of the multitudes regarding this, the biggest comeback of them all. Nor should it. The special effects are marvelous, the good-humored script is comic-bookish without being excessively campy, and there are two excellent performances. One is by Charles Grodin as the leader of the expedition that starts out looking for oil and ends up with this large, furry problem on its hands. Grodin plays the honcho as a hard-bailer of the sort that used to hang around...
Though obviously alarmed by the spread of Polish dissidence, Moscow is not openly pressing the Gierek government to crack down. The Soviets unquestionably wish to avoid using their two tank divisions stationed in Poland to quell protests. Poles, in turn, are reluctant to provoke the Kremlin rulers. "We are always afraid of one thing. We don't want a Czechoslovakia on our soil," said one prominent dissident. "It would be a real war," added one witness to the Warsaw uprising in 1944. Then Nazi troops destroyed the capital, while the Red Army nearby made no move to help...
...long, long leg, enough to drive sane men crazy. Her beauty hit the transcendent point in this movie. Before she had been coltish and jagged, but with Women of the Year she entered a new class which she shares with no one. (When I think of her, I quell.) This was the first of her movies with Spencer Tracy. Their later works were wittier and smoother, but nowhere did the chemistry match the sexiness of this first picture which was made by MGM in 1942. Hepburn found the script by two young writers and tricked the knish-like despot...
...little novel is set not in (or near) the centers of world power but in the underdeveloped and overpopulated Caribbean country of Santo Domingo. There Clay Loomis, a disaffected CIA agent turned soldier of fortune, serves as chief of security to the current dictator. His main job: trying to quell a guerrilla movement led by one RamÓn el Rojo. It is a loosing battle; before long RamÓn starts a Castro-type revolution that spreads through Santo Domingo like Asiatic...