Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Based on the superb spy thriller by Martin Cruz Smith, this film hypnotizes us with its briskly paced plot, providing a whirl-wind tour of Moscow, snow-covered country estates, and Russian espionage organizations. The novel Gorky Park rivals John Le Carre's Smiley's People and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with a systematic, psychological unravelling of a bizarre mystery. Like Robert Ludlum's intricate tales, including Parsifal Mosaic, each minute the hero faces some new opposition to his quest for eclipsing the top-level "mole." This movie captures the cold tenseness central to Smith's book, mirroring the rivetting...
...Washington developments were played out against the background of continued violence in Lebanon. Heavy shelling from Druse positions in the mountains above Beirut airport pinned down U.S. Marines in their bunkers. A French soldier was killed by sniper fire in a Beirut suburb. Sheik Halim Takieddin, a high-ranking Druse holy man, was assassinated in his home in Beirut by a young man who embraced him, then shot him with a silencer-equipped handgun...
...return a Pulitzer Prize after admitting that she had invented the title character of "Jimmy's World," a portrait of an eight-year-old heroin addict. A month later, New York Daily News Columnist Michael Daly admitted that he had made up the name of a British soldier who, he reported, had shot a juvenile in Belfast, Northern Ireland; the story was proved to contain other factual errors. Daly acknowledged that he had changed details in a number of other columns, but contended, in classic "New Journalism" fashion, that altering the facts had not impaired his rendition...
...recent telephone interview he spoke almost wistfully of American power in days gone by. "There were the many crisis situations in the Eisenhower years and we never lost a single soldier," he said. He says we never should have gone to Beirut in the first place and that the invasion of Grenada was a misuse of our power. He would have left both crises up to the United Nations. Since its inception he has been a strong advocate of the U.N. and wishes it were more effective. He was one of two Republicans President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 sent...