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...black directors are in circulation, from artistic achievements like Charles Burnett's family drama To Sleep with Anger (now on video) to breakthrough hits like Mario Van Peebles' dope opera New Jack City, the year's fourth highest grossing picture. Some of the black films pack promise, others just threaten -- but all are tonics to a movie industry that otherwise looks ready to doze off into a coma of retreads and revisionism...
...vigilantes, mostly semi-educated young men bitterly opposed to Western values, have broken into compounds in Riyadh and Jidda to threaten and arrest Westerners drinking home-brewed liquor in defiance of the ban on alcohol. A women's tennis tournament in Riyadh was halted when the mutawain learned of it. The government advised an oil-company executive to cancel a party because members of both sexes were invited. Wives of Western businessmen and diplomats are fearful of leaving their villas in the evening unless accompanied by their husbands. To do otherwise in the atmosphere of intimidation created by the mutawain...
Ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect are human disasters. They happen to occur in the environment. But they are urgent because they directly threaten man. A sane environmentalism, the only kind of environmentalism that will win universal public support, begins by unashamedly declaring that nature is here to serve man. A sane environmentalism is entirely anthropocentric: it enjoins man to preserve nature, but on the grounds of self-preservation...
...poor reviews to his approach -- "telling us we have to help save the system they've got or they're going to lose control of their nukes." That was ( something close to "rhetorical mugging," said one official, and another called it "attempted extortion." Gorbachev is in no position to threaten. He is more likely to get results from the West if he switches to specific pledges and actual performance...
There is, however, one huge hole in NATO's new plans: what if the next menace arises outside NATO's borders -- in the form, say, of a new Middle East war that would threaten the member nations' oil supplies but not their territory? The structure of the Rapid Reaction Corps implies that it could be sent to trouble spots anywhere. But under the NATO treaty the corps could not be deployed "out of area." Had it existed during the gulf war, it could have been rushed to member Turkey's border with Iraq, but no farther...