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Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. Three Warner Herzog documentaries on Thursday, Oct. 22. Herdsman of the Sun at 5:25 and 8 p.m. La Soufriere and The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Stiner at 4, 6:30 and 9:10 p.m. Boston area premiere of Ox from Friday, Oct. 23 to Thursday, Oct. 29 at 4, 5:50, 7:45 and 9:40 p.m. Also a Saturday and Sunday matinee...
...arriving invaders. Most significant, Panama was mainly an Army show, though small units of Navy SEALs and Marines were involved. Joint Chiefs Chairman General Colin Powell squelched interservice rivalries and gave the two top on-site Army generals, Maxwell Thurman, head of the U.S. Southern Command, and Carl Stiner, the Task Force Commander, clear authority to direct the attacks. Says retired Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III, who commanded the Grenada task force: "In Panama they had a lot of time to prepare, and they did a hell of a job; they were able to tailor things a lot better...
...Italian and American armed forces both converged on the 737. When it ; became clear that the Italian paramilitary forces did not plan to surrender custody of the terrorists, Major General Carl W. Stiner and an Italian colonel got into a sharp debate. The U.S. commandos, said a Washington official, "were pulling back the bolts" on their rifles. Abbas, in his Yugoslav interview, concurred. "American and Italian soldiers were threatening each other with their weapons, ready to shoot," he said...
After the commandos were ordered by Washington to stand down, Stiner refused to give up entirely. When the 737 took off for Rome 17 hours later, carrying Abbas and another Palestinian official, Stiner hopped into a T-39 trainer jet. He took off from a taxiway without tower permission and shadowed the 737 to Rome, where he made an emergency landing. In his resignation speech last week, Prime Minister Bettino Craxi announced that Italy had filed a protest over both the T-39's landing and the pursuit of the 737 by an F-14 to within 25 miles...
...Coach Stiner says that his quarterback on the field doesn't mind having instructions arrive by special messenger: "He's so busy blocking, or carrying the ball." Two weeks ago, against Stanford, Oregon State's press-coop quarterback directed three offensive drives, two of which resulted in touchdowns. Last week, Oregon State did not have the quarterbacking that U.C.L.A. had, nor the team. Score: U.C.L.A. 27, Oregon State...