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Fifteen-year-old Clifford Peache (Chris Makepeace) switches schools and instantly alienates the bullies in his new class. They threaten to mangle him unless he forks over his lunch money. So Cliff finds a bodyguard, hulking Ricky Linderman (Adam Baldwin) who, the rumor goes, has killed a kid, raped a teacher, and shot a cop. Cliff eventually wins over the silent, secretive Ricky, and the two score a rousing--and hilarious--final victory over the bullies who have tormented them since...
...statement, which was entitled "Our Way Is Not Theirs," attacked "extremists in the [Israeli] public and within the government guided by secular and religious chauvinism [who] distort Zionism and threaten its realization. They advance the vicious cycle of extremism and violence which nurture each other." It also appeared to be critical of Begin's insistence on establishing Israeli settlements in the Arab West Bank, a policy that some American Jews believe is a serious obstacle to peace in the Middle East...
Broadcasters have long viewed cable television as a dangerous upstart that could threaten the industry's huge profits. But the Federal Communications Commission last week opened the way to more home-video competition by freeing cable TV from most of the last remaining tangles of Government regulation that had once restrained its operation...
Some critics would answer that the modest size of those deterrent forces lack credibility in light of 1) the Soviets' overwhelming superiority and 2) the inability of the Europeans to agree on a truly unified defense policy. Beyond that, the independent British and French nuclear forces threaten to compromise future arms limitation talks. Soviet President Brezhnev has indicated a willingness to begin discussions with NATO on mutual reductions of European-based missiles. But he also insisted on the inclusion of British and French nukes in SALT III talks-if and when they get under way. Paris and London have...
...United bombing sent shivers through executive suites across the country and stimulated the purchase of executive security equipment. FBI Director Philip Webster and other security specialists believe that as the U.S. recession deepens, disgruntled employees, psychopaths or terrorists will increasingly threaten industry leaders. Corporate security has now become a $7 billion to $10 billion business, and even the aging comic-strip crime fighter Dick Tracy last week was faced with the kidnaping of his old pal Millionaire Entrepreneur Diet Smith...