Word: radek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ford plays President James Marshall, a man of action who orders a joint Russian-American commando raid and capture of the genocidal dictator General Radek in Kazakhstan. After the operation is successfully accomplished, Marshall delivers an I-mean-it speech in Moscow warning terrorists that "your day is over," then boards AF1 with his wife, 12-year-old daughter and some 50 staff members. Once airborne, just as Marshall is settling down to enjoy a recorded Notre Dame/Michigan football game, terrorists disguised as a Russian TV crew and led by Gary Oldman as Korshunov, a fanatical Radek loyalist, take over...
After an initial shootout leaving more than a few secret service men strewn across the cabin, the rest of the passengers are locked into a conference room and held hostage with the promise that until Radek is released, one hostage will be executed each half hour. What the hijackers don't know is that the President, whom everyone believes has escaped in a special emergency "pod," is beginning a little guerrilla warfare from within the bowels of the plane...
...America--is actually wilder than the story Air Force One is telling. It concerns demented terrorists who somehow insinuate themselves onto the presidential plane and take the Chief Executive and everyone else aboard hostage. Their offer is lives for a life--specifically that of a genocidal tyrant named General Radek, president of a breakaway Russian republic now being held in a Moscow jail...
...RADEK, 54 A founding member of Justice's public-integrity section in the aftermath of Watergate, Radek supervises Ingersoll's team. An even-tempered, down-to-earth Chicago native, he is known for his street savvy, lawyerly acumen and good judgment. After suffering a heart attack in the early 1990s, he has slimmed down and forsaken the cheap cigars whose stench once pervaded the office. He is passionate about golf (but has little time to play), and his Elvis impersonations for the public-integrity support staff at Christmas are legendary...
...hell of a way to spread the gospel of big-time sports to all parts of the country. We already have a system with Las Vegas in the IHL where the team is independently owned and operated, serving for some old (e.g. Clint Malarchuk) and some new (Radek Bonk) stars as a financial safe haven in the world of labor and management strife...how tough would it be to piece together such a system which would truly put the pressure on bad teams to improve...