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...existence." As Sharon sees it, "Israel needs freedom of operation in the region, and will achieve it either by political means or by its own independent military power." And Sharon has made it clear that Israel intends to reply to any threat in its own way; i.e., a P.L.O. raid in the Bekaa Valley might touch off an Israeli foray into Beirut, Tunis or Tripoli...
...imposed his leadership over the diverse Christian militia groups during and after the 1975-76 civil war. In June 1978, Gemayel's forces lashed out brutally against former President the Suleiman Franjieh, who was one of his chief political opponents among the Christian population. In a lightning raid on the Franjieh summer resort village of Ehden, Phalangist soldiers murdered the ex-President's son and political heir Tony, along with his wife and two-year-old daughter. Gemayel coldly dismissed the episode as a "social revolt against feudalism." And in July 1980, Gemayel's troops virtually wiped...
...brother. By the show's climax, it envelops the stage and (gasp!) most of the audience. This is a carnivore with its own intimidating charm, thanks to clever manipulation by Martin P. Robinson and the voice of Ron Taylor, who sounds like Paul Robeson crossed with an air-raid siren...
...shaping comic characters, situations and moods than he shows here. Winkler, the Fonz on Happy Days, is pleasantly put-upon here; Michael Keaton, also from TV, is mildly manic; and Shelley Long so resembles Pam Dawber in her squeaky cuteness that one wonders why the producers didn't raid Mork and Mindy for the real thing. Sitcom humor, like water and sex, is something that is more enjoyable when it is free...
...Goring and was photographed with Hitler. And he did lounge in neutral Portugal, as if to wait out the hostilities, until Winston Churchill learned of a Nazi kidnap plot and ordered British troops to provide an escort to the Bahamas. But the additional malice is pure Findley: British commandos raid the duke's quarters, only to find the royal presence crashing through a mirror, trying to hide inside his own image...