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...Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now to try to convince a federal jury that even if Tindall did smuggle drugs into the U.S. nearly six years ago, as the Government contends, he should not be held responsible. The reason: the war turned his client into an "action junkie" unable to resist opportunities to enjoy thrills...
...evil was in Luke. Later, when he battles the real Vader, he is again tested, and Vader's evil has a magnetic power that is far more potent than the weapon he carries in his gloved hand. Luke, who is not yet strong or virtuous enough to resist such temptation, escapes only by letting himself fall desperately into the void below...
Last year, when the price of gold skyrocketed, leading class-ring companies were ready with nickel, chrome and stainless-steel substitutes. In an attempt to retain some glamour, manufacturers have given the alloys exotic trade names like Ultrium and Siladium. Salesmen now proudly point out that the gold substitutes resist tarnish or dents and will not leave rings around the finger. Says R. Lyman Wood, group vice president of Lenox Inc., an industry leader: "You can drop it or step on it. You can even wear it playing football...
...main substantive issue is not Iran, but the definition of a long-term policy toward the Soviet Union. The superpowers are on a collision course. If, to avoid a collision, we should fail to check Soviet power, we might?like Britain and France after Munich?have to resist later anyway, but in disastrous circumstances. However, if in our effort to contain Moscow we should react rashly, we might re-create 1914, when each camp believed that the time to seek a showdown had come because trends would be unfavorable to it later. Neither appeasement nor provocation should be our motto...
...militants who had seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran declared with equal bravado: "We do not trade plotters, saboteurs and domestic mercenaries for the subversive misdeeds of hirelings outside our borders." Their advice to the Iranian hostages in London: "Do not fear martyrdom. Resist, and victory will be yours." Similarly, Foreign Minister Ghotbzadeh observed that "anyone who has died for Islam goes directly to heaven." After talking to the London gunmen by telephone, Ghotbzadeh rejected their ransom demand and threatened to have one of their imprisoned comrades executed for every member of the London embassy staff who was harmed...