Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while holding 11 OPEC ministers hostage in Vienna: "To get anywhere, you have to walk over the corpses." His image is frozen in time in crude black-and-white photos of a pudgy face that seemed menacing in its banality and came to symbolize the world of mercenary terror. But last week as Carlos was arrested in Sudan and whisked to France to face charges that threaten to jail him for life, his most vaunted exploits were exposed as largely fictitious...
...sure, Carlos had an evil career. The French charge him with 15 deaths locally; Carlos himself claims 83 victims worldwide. But the legend that credits him with the most notorious terror acts of the past two decades and links him to violent groups in France, Germany, Japan and especially the Middle East is diminished by bungled missions, unimpressively soft targets and years of dissipation from high living and alcohol consumption. While Carlos hid out in the Middle East over the past 10 years, intelligence forces often cleared their blotters by blaming the elusive mastermind for their unsolved cases. Now that...
...other Rebel Highway films hunker down to more serious matters of turf marking and pubescent angst. Motorcycle Gang revs up real terror, as some wild ones kidnap a restless girl and her dad gets really mad. Roadracers is a hyperkinetic assault on good manners. Dragstrip Girl, a Cal-Mex remake of Rebel Without a Cause, stars Natasha Gregson Wagner (Natalie Wood's daughter) as a bored teen lured by a handsome Chicano's threat and thrill. Confessions of a Sorority Girl uncovers the black-satin double-dealing of a teen queen spurned. Girls in Prison, with a script co-written...
Enter Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras, head of the current junta and target of the current State Department and White House attacks. General Cedras unleashed his "attaches," roving bands of paramilitary thugs to ruthlessly attack and pillage pro-Aristide neighborhoods. This terror coupled with years of economic privation is the reason Haitians now flee their country in droves...
Jones is passable in a evil, juicy, bombtoting role that would be hard to screw up. He does instill a sense of fear in the audience, although it may be born out of sympathy for his career direction after "Blown Away" rather than actual terror...