Word: raf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attraction on the coffee table. One reason this book works is its photography, done with knowledge and passion by Michael Freeman, Robert Golden and Dennis Rolfe, whether showing a venerable DC-3 as it makes its way through the heavy traffic suspended from the museum's raf ters, capturing the streamlined power of a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter or catching an earthrise on the moon...
...Vitti's wronged husband, a flamboyant but sympathetic producer, Raf Vallone is so appealing that it is hard to know why Vitti would forsake him. Whether he is arguing on the phone about Burmese distribution rights or comforting his wife in a time of need, the serpentine Vallone is a grand old charmer. We want to see more of him, but once Affair shifts from satire to bathos he fades away. There are too many such missed opportunities. Like other visitors to Cannes, Michael Ritchie arrived with good intentions, only to get so distracted that he forgot...
...killed in a shootout with plainclothesmen. A few days later suspicious neighbors called police to an apartment where they found Stoll's crudely coded diary, an arsenal of weapons (including a homemade "Stalin Organ" capable of firing primitive missiles) and fingerprints of six of Stoll's RAF comrades...
This recent police performance is a welcome contrast to the occasional bungling previously displayed by terrorist hunters. In September a Bundestag committee disclosed that antiterrorist police had allowed Stoll and the other RAF suspects, Adelheid Schulz and Christian Klar, to get away after keeping them under close surveillance for two weeks. The cops had even photographed the trio boarding a rented helicopter to make aerial reconnaissance surveys of the homes of potential victims. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ordered a shake-up of the antiterrorist force...
...military government of Argentine President Jorge Rafáel Videla is banking heavily on the World Cup as a means of burnishing the country's international image. Argentina has invested some $700 million in building the soccer stadiums, refurbishing airports and repairing local highways. Meanwhile, the Argentine military is winning its war of extermination with terrorists, despite the stubborn remnant of Montoneros. To counter its police-state image, the government has reduced its intended security allotment of 5,000 police and soldiers for Buenos Aires...