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Some experts argue that the best deterrent to the seizing of hostages is a demonstrated willingness to fight fire with fire. Successful examples: the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe in 1976, the Dutch army's storming of a hijacked commuter train in 1977, the West German assault at Mogadishu...
The pattern of these escapes was of great importance to modernism. It meant that artists, impelled by curiosity, were in a sense mimicking the colonial pattern of expansion and appropriation. They were becoming tourists in other ethnic realities, seizing on the distant world and its exotic contents as raw material...
A MEMBER of former President-elect Reagan's ill-fated Defense Department transition team--the one whose chairman was ordered never to show his face in the Pentagon again by the Secretary of Defense, and whose report apparently beat a hasty path to the circular file--was ruminating the other...
INDIAN HISTORY is much more the story of those who invaded the subcontinent than of the people native to its tropical and cultural climate. The record stands as a more than 3300-year struggle among a string of marauders, each Imperialist group seizing control over the nation's highly disjointed...
It is, though. Director Clark so little trusts his audience that he italicizes every dramatic revelation with lush music and encourages his players to stick to their stereotypes. Only Lee Remick shines, as Scottie's loving exwife. In the middle of the movie, Lemmon and Remick have a scene...