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Consciously or not, these films tend to serve as expressions of the values or confusions jangling around in their society, or occasionally as springboards for earnest discussions of them. At a time when moral discourse has been reduced to the size of a sound bite and rapid social change has everyone on edge, the messages conveyed in even the most frolicking of these movies stir peculiar passions. Such films often have an astonishing afterlife, not only in popular memory but as artifacts that vividly define their times...
...Rapid Reaction Corps capable of moving anyplace within NATO's borders within seven days. (It would not include an already existing mobile unit of 5,000 troops that can hustle to a trouble spot within 72 hours.) The corps would comprise up to 70,000 soldiers in four divisions, two British, two mixed European. The U.S. might contribute some additional troops; in any case, it would supply most of the planes, helicopters and airlift capacity. The Rapid Reaction Corps will be commanded by a British general and have headquarters...
There is, however, one huge hole in NATO's new plans: what if the next menace arises outside NATO's borders -- in the form, say, of a new Middle East war that would threaten the member nations' oil supplies but not their territory? The structure of the Rapid Reaction Corps implies that it could be sent to trouble spots anywhere. But under the NATO treaty the corps could not be deployed "out of area." Had it existed during the gulf war, it could have been rushed to member Turkey's border with Iraq, but no farther...
...which is a NATO member but pulled out of the alliance's military structure in 1966, made moves to fill this gap in such a manner as to revive old suspicions that it was out to diminish the U.S. role in Europe. Paris would have preferred a strictly European rapid-reaction force that would not be part of NATO and could be sent anywhere in the world. Washington opposed the idea as a potential first stage in the creation of a European force in which it would have no role. French officials immediately began soft-pedaling their idea...
...Angelization: 1) The process in which rapid population growth, uncontrolled development, increasing congestion, rampant crime and environmental damage combine to make other cities in the Western U.S. resemble Los Angeles. 2) A descent into urban hell...