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...Combat operations shack at Fullerton Municipal Airport is a beehive, as pairs of fledgling aces go through their briefings, don flight suits and parachutes and climb into the low-wing propeller planes for the thrill of a lifetime. When the planes return from the hour-long flight, airsickness bags are discreetly discarded and a debriefing takes place using videotape from the cockpit and gun camera of each airplane. (Trainees keep the videotapes as a souvenir...
...publicly entertained Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze last September. If Baker switched his official residence, he could replace Dan Quayle in 1992 or run for the Senate in 1994. For the moment, aides dismiss such speculation, pointing out that the only structure on the property is a "small fishing shack." It could be a good place to wait for nibbles...
...trips from Yugoslavia to Italy, to show young Gypsies stealing and pimping at their bosses' stern whims. But its heart is in a Serbian village of Gypsies, where outcasts find a family and fevered dreams are as tangible and intimate as a relative come to sleep in the crowded shack called home...
...choosing to sleep next to the derelict under the open sky rather than in Boesman's makeshift shack, Lena gives up a bottle of liquor for permission to do so. Nevertheless, a drunk Boesman kicks and hits the old man as he sits slumped over and near death...
Angered, Boesman violently rips apart the shack he has built, just as the white men tore apart the couple's shanty on the day before. Then he is quiet, all energy spent. After a tense moment, Lena reaches out her hand to Boesman, takes her share of their belongings on her back and walks with him off stage...