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...Curly (Joe Don Baker) gave him a fast $15,000 for the rights to raze the family shack and extend Curly's housing development. Ace blew it all mining in Nevada, "20 feet from the mother lode," but he is fed up anyway and wants to move on to Australia...
...miracle of Il Boom has petered out, leaving inflation and unemployment. The average Italian worker now spends $1.22 of his $1.55 hourly salary merely for food and shelter. Unemployment stands at 1,167,000, or 6.1% of the working force. Housing is so limited that every city has its shack dwellers-while Italy has a surplus of empty luxury apartments. Hospitals are desperately overcrowded; schools are running on three shifts. Rome University, built to cope with 12,000 students, has an enrollment of 93,000. In short, the country this spring is beset by a host of troubles that...
...weeks ago, three NATO radar technicians-two Britons and a Canadian-were kidnaped, then murdered in a remote shack in North Central Turkey by members of a small extremist organization called the Turkish People's Liberation Army. Turkish soldiers waiting outside retaliated instantly by killing ten of the eleven terrorists inside with rockets and rifle bullets...
...logical place for a convocation of strangers who are terrorized yet basically humane. In the world's judgment, the characters in Small Craft Warnings are seedy derelicts: a strident middle-aged beautician (Helena Carroll) who rarely bathes and whose trailer shack-up is a monosyllabic semi-Neanderthal (Brad Sullivan); a red-headed hooker (Cherry Davis) whose hand is on every man's groin except that of her woefully plastered boy friend (William Hickey); a drunken doctor (David Hooks) who kills when he aborts and a sardonically nihilistic homosexual (Alan Mixon). The world casts stones; Williams applies the balm...
...while some of the terrorists created a diversion by firing on the surrounding troops and tossing out hand grenades, others coldly executed the three hostages -John Law, 25, a Canadian, and two Britons, Gordon Banner, 35, and Charles Turner, 45. Moments later 800 Turkish troops opened fire on the shack with rockets, rifles and tear gas. Ten terrorists died in the fusillade; the only survivor was later captured by police...