Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a bigger star than Sylvester Stallone," boasts Lawrence Gleason, marketing chief for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, the movie-production company owned by Filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis. And who is that superluminary? "Greed," says Gleason. The base emotion has a starring role in the U.S. opening of De Laurentiis' $10 million flick, Million Dollar Mystery, which premieres June 12. Mystery is the first movie to offer its audience a shot at a $1 million prize for solving the film's lost-treasure puzzle...
...question that had reverberated on many levels throughout the week, as the nation tried to understand how a senseless military mishap and a puzzling American role in a faraway war had somehow combined to cost the lives of 37 sailors trapped in their bunks aboard the U.S.S. Stark. "Americans today," the President noted, "know the price of freedom in this uneasy world." And then, once again, a bugler played taps...
...week wore on. A nation that had committed itself to building an expensive 600-ship Navy began to worry whether the ships might be sitting ducks whenever they sailed into harm's way. A nation that has been unable since Viet Nam to feel truly comfortable asserting its global role began to feel gun-shy about protecting its national interests even in the strategically critical Persian Gulf. A nation that takes pride in the bravery of its fighting forces again tried to understand why servicemen were killed performing political missions in which they were not supposed to fight...
...Navy has been that it is designed for a dubious new mission: threatening the Soviet mainland during the early stages of a superpower showdown. Journalist Jack Beatty, writing in the May issue of the Atlantic magazine, argues that the Navy should concentrate more on its less glamorous time-honored role -- which happens to be what the Stark was doing last week. One problem, however, is that the vulnerability and cost of America's large aircraft carriers mean that the Navy does not feel safe stationing one inside the shallow and crowded waters of the Persian Gulf, thus making air cover...
More significantly, Reagan reasserted the American role in the Persian Gulf and in fact extended it. The Administration announced it had decided to fly the U.S. flag over eleven oil tankers belonging to Kuwait, an oil-rich Persian Gulf state whose ships have frequently been bombed by Iranian planes. The reflagged Kuwaiti tankers will be entitled to U.S. Navy protection...