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Since Beat first stepped onto a striptease stage to perform a comedy routine in 1972, he has projected this almost split personality. He has been both the archetypal Japanese macho man?the rebel, the outlaw, the yakuza?while also playing the subversive clown prince version of all those cherished tough guys. Those phoned-in TV appearances are just the flip side of the stylized cinematic tough guy. Beat plays off the public's awareness of who he is. That farcical gangster on the set of low-budget TV shows is all the more lovable because he's the deadly gangster...
...Winners ARIEL SHARON Looks like a sure thing. Israeli Likud leader builds up a 20% lead in race to be P.M. JOHN ASHCROFT Top cop. With slim win in U.S. Senate, Mr. Controversy becomes Attorney General SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS The next soap hunk? Mexican rebel leader does TV gig and sees his popularity soar...
Major Rubaramira Ruranga knows something about fighting. During Idi Amin's reign of terror in Uganda in the 1970s, Ruranga worked as a spy for rebels fighting the dictator. After Amin's ouster, the military man studied political intelligence in Cuba before returning to find a new dictator at the helm and a bloody war raging. Hoping for change, Ruranga supplied his old rebel friends with more secrets, this time from within the President's office. When he was discovered, he fled to the bush to "fight the struggle with guns...
...this point, Chay's boss takes over. He is in touch with many overseas syndicates, he says: "I have never met the end buyers but from my syndicate contacts, I know that it goes to Acehnese rebel groups, Burmese minority groups like the Karen, Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines and the rebel groups in Indonesia." Since he is playing such a dangerous game, doesn't he worry about getting caught? "The Thai army openly sells weapons," he says. "They are the biggest source of protection for the people involved in this business. What more do we want...
...Despite their differing paths, both sons suffer disappointments at the end of their lives, as circumstances careen out of their control. Convicted of conspiring to murder a policeman, Aaron, sick with tuberculosis, dies a broken rebel, his country still under British rule. As an old man, Daniel returns to Chevathar to establish Doraipuram, a settlement to unite the Dorai clan, only to see his dream dissolve in disharmony and contention. After his death, Daniel's estranged son Kannan quits his job at a tea plantation and returns to his roots, just as India, in 1947, becomes a free nation...