Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich happened to be at the embassy at the time of the raid and reported that the staff responded with relative calm. But the attacks have taken a toll: the vulnerable ambassador's office is no longer used, and staffers now hold meetings in an interior auditorium...
...fastidiousness by Burt Lancaster. That is not a quality one automatically associates with a star who was once the most macho of leading men. But in the past decade, working with such daring directors as Bertolucci, Altman and Visconti and on such underrated genre pieces as Ulzana 's Raid and Go Tell the Spartans, Lancaster has become a resourceful and wide-ranging character actor. Here he is playing Lou, a small-time crook who seems to feel neatness just might count in the battle to keep his withered dreams intact. You can practically smell the blue rinse...
...hijacked plane stayed for six days. Despite repeated entreaties from Islamabad and Washington, they had shown little willingness to work toward ending the standoff. There were the Syrian officials in Damascus, who refused to let Zia send a Pakistani antiterrorist unit and also declined to launch a Syrian commando raid against the hijackers. There was Zia himself, who apparently had no military option left and therefore chose to give in to the demands to avoid a "bloodbath." Finally, there was the Libyan government, which initially offered asylum to the 54 Pakistani inmates-then reneged while its disinvited guests were literally...
Some experts argue that the best deterrent to the seizing of hostages is a demonstrated willingness to fight fire with fire. Successful examples: the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe in 1976, the Dutch army's storming of a hijacked commuter train in 1977, the West German assault at Mogadishu, Somalia, four months later and the British commando rescue at the Iranian embassy in London in 1980. Says U.S. Antiterrorism Expert Robert Kupperman: "Right after Mogadishu and the Dutch train incident, the world became convinced that Western governments would risk killing everybody if they have...
...title of the film is an allusion to Parisian life during the time of the Nazi occupation, the time in which Truffaut's story is set. This was a time of dramatic contradiction in Paris, for despite the air raid warnings and the sudden imposition of the Nazi superstructure, some normal life continued to exist. It was, paradoxically, a time of artistic flowering in France--many theaters flourished, and Les Enfants du Paradis was being filmed. Camus and the like were writing for the newspapers and carrying on the Resistance. There was an intellectual and social defiance which the Nazis...