Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then Dayan telephoned Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and invited the Americans to join the deliberations. Vance, Brzezinski and other members of the U.S. team hurried to the Knesset committee room while Carter remained in his sixth floor suite at the King David Hotel. The talks remained deadlocked. Said one Israeli Cabinet member to the Americans: "We need more time to make the kind of decisions you are asking us to take...
Later that evening, Dayan called Vance and asked for another meeting. It lasted about an hour, after which Vance told Carter that there suddenly appeared to be some room to maneuver. Encouraged, Carter told Vance to try once again to draft some new ideas. The Secretary and his team worked until 1 a.m., were up again at 6 and were ready to brief Carter an hour later...
Eight newsmen crowded into the motel room in Modesto, Calif., to hear Prokes read his statement. A former TV reporter, he had gone to Guyana with Jones in August 1977. Prokes had fled Jonestown just before the mass deaths. While carrying some $500,000 of the Temple's cash through the jungle, he and two others were arrested by Guyana police. They claimed they had been ordered by Jones to deliver the money to the Soviet embassy in Georgetown. Released by Guyana officials, Prokes had returned to California...
Though the trial began after midnight, about 200 members of the "general public" crammed into the small, whitewashed room. Hoveida sat on a chair in front of the court, which consisted of a mullah and two Iranian judges from the now disbanded secular courts. Composed but groggy because he had taken a sleeping pill earlier, Hoveida looked around in amazement and said he had been promised an afternoon session. The presiding judge replied: "Day or night makes no difference, because this is a revolutionary court...
...time and again, from out of nowhere, of the masked killer in Halloween, whose presence is signalled by an amplified breathing sound and a supernatural thrum. Carpenter's action sequences are especially resourcefully engineered. There is one virtuoso scene in Assault on Precinct 13, in which the station office room receives an intensive barrage from outside: the street gang is equipped with silencers stolen from a government arsenal, and the only sound, as we watch the room being ripped apart, is the quiet clicking and crumpling of glass and venetian blinds, concluding with a wittily timed puff of bullet-scattered...