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...after the blast news organizations in West Germany received a 2½ page letter in German jointly signed by two terrorist groups, West Germany's Red Army Faction and France's Direct Action. Composed on paper carrying the R.A.F.'s symbol, a five-pointed star overlaid with a submachine gun, the letter said in stilted, jargon-filled language that the attack had been the work of a joint "politico-military front in Western Europe with NATO as its main target." It called the Rhein-Main base a "pivotal point for war against the Third World and a nest of spies...
...lock on the Boston market by threatening to cut off supplies of Häagen-Dazs to distributors who also carried Ben & Jerry's. Turning adversity into a publicity ploy, Ben & Jerry's gave customers thousands of T shirts and bumper stickers that poked fun at the Pillsbury corporate symbol by asking: WHAT'S THE DOUGH BOY AFRAID OF? Without admitting any wrongdoing, Pillsbury settled the complaint out of court...
...made her first impression in a portrayal of Marilyn Monroe for the 1980 TV movie Marilyn, the Untold Story. But Catherine Hicks did not expect to impersonate another sex symbol when she signed up for Fever Pitch. Hicks, 34, plays a Las Vegas cocktail waitress named Flo who, it turns out, bears more than a passing resemblance to Marlene Dietrich. Hicks took on the look of the legendary German actress after Director Richard Brooks suggested that she dress like an old-time movie star instead of your typical casino bunny. "I always loved The Blue Angel," said the star...
...Washington State, where her widowed father has been forced to go for work, Natty predictably acquires a furry, four-legged friend. But this is no instantly lovable mutt; it is a full-grown, fang-baring wolf--the fairy-tale villain turned into a saving presence. He makes an apt symbol for a handsome, moral and emotionally satisfying movie that is too strong-minded to settle for those virtues or for easy sentiment and cheap nostalgia...
...genocide unleashed by U.S. authorities against the native population." Translation: in the looking-glass logic of superpower relations, Peltier, an American Indian serving two consecutive life sentences for the murder of two FBI agents, is to Soviet propagandists what dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov is to the U.S., a symbol of flagrant disregard for human rights...