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...particular became international political threats, Western governments have created special units to combat guerrillas and, if possible, rescue their terrified victims. The senior service in the war against terrorism is Britain's 900-man Special Air Service Regiment. Founded in Libya in 1942 to penetrate the lines of Rommel's Afrika Korps, the S. A.S. has battled Communist guerrillas in Malaya, Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, and I.R.A. gunmen in South Armagh. Probably the most seasoned commando force is Israel's General Intelligence and Reconnaissance Unit 269; its accomplishments include the 1972 rescue, at Lod Airport...
...nostalgic glimpses of World War II movies - Casablanca, The Purple Heart, The Longest Day - are equally disconcerting. The film interweaves clips indiscriminately, as if James Mason as Rommel in The Desert Rats were as valid a reflection of the African cam paign as authentic shots of Rommel himself. Director Winslow's cheapest shot is a reverse-action sequence depicting the German retreat: to the tune of Get Back, Hitler is made to cha cha cha back and forth like the cat in the Purina Cat Chow commercial...
...camels nearly as brilliant in their trappings. We filled the valley to its banks with our flashing stream." The cleanness of desert warfare was powerful enough as a myth to survive two world wars: the ghosts of Lawrence and his camels did much for the popularity of Rommel, Montgomery and their tanks...
...Alamein in North Africa that Montgomery became a national hero, and the controversy over his talents began. Leading the battered British Eighth Army, Montgomery pushed the Afrika Korps of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the vaunted "Desert Fox," out of Egypt and into full retreat to Tunisia-where the Germans ran into Eisenhower's North African forces. El Alamein sent the British into ecstasy. "Before it," said Winston Churchill of the famous battle, "there were no victories; after it, there were no defeats...
...battle plan meticulously, but many analysts believe that the British victory was more a product of superiority in manpower and equipment than Monty's strategic skill. When his painstakingly prepared attack finally came on Oct. 23, 1942, Montgomery had 230,000 men and 1,100 tanks facing Rommel's 80,000 men and 260 tanks. Yet when the battle was over, the British losses were triple those of the enemy...