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Before coming to Manerplaw, Ehtablay had never seen television or a movie. He had not even known they existed. At Manerplaw he got his first taste of both. As a special Army Day treat, the recruits are permitted to watch Rambo III on the VCR in the officers' barracks. Ehtablay sits on the floor, hugging his knees, and stares, mouth open, eyes bedazzled, at Sylvester Stallone's leading Afghan freedom fighters in a charge against Soviet tanks...
...eyes bloody, enveloped in flames, struck dead by an angry god. The Ayatullah Khomeini tried to arrange this denouement but wasn't able to bring it off before his own death last year, so a Pakistani studio has produced a movie that features three mujahedin setting out on a Rambo-style trek to kill the offending author of The Satanic Verses. In his celluloid incarnation, Rushdie is depicted as a boozy member of a Jewish cabal who lives in a luxurious palace surrounded by plump Punjabi bimbos and who likes to torture Muslims. The film, International Guerrillas, is doing boffo...
...claims, he and some fellow Noriega opponents worked through the Israeli embassy in Washington to contact two former commandos of the Israeli Defense Forces. They concocted a plan that involved a 200-man special unit of the Ecuadoran army and would have cost approximately $3 million. The Rambo scheme was killed when the C.I.A. tipped off the Senate Intelligence Committee...
...rose rapidly in the rental-car business but made his real mark as a shrewd operator in the record-and-video distribution business. He founded his own video- and music-software distribution company, Live Entertainment Inc., and joined the board of directors of Carolco Pictures Inc., producer of the Rambo films. The couple and their two athletically gifted sons, Joseph Lyle, 22, and Erik Galen, 19, were described as a handsome, happy family, often seen playing tennis and other sports together...
...police are stymied by last August's Mob-style assassination of Hollywood entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty, who were shotgunned in the front room of their mansion. Menendez had been an executive and director of Carolco Pictures, an independent movie company that produced Sylvester Stallone's Rambo movies, and police have been unable to unravel his business affairs or identify all his partners. Carolco is controlled by a Netherlands holding company that is, in turn, owned by a tangle of offshore family trusts...