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...plane last week. Says he: "Explosives are made out of organic material. They won't set off a metal detector, nor do they have any distinguishing silhouette. It's a blob and can be of any shape." A bomb detonator can be as slim as a pencil, and a timer no more conspicuous than a travel alarm. Plastic explosives can be concocted from a wide variety of chemical formulas and take many forms, ranging from string on a package to sheets of paper. For all the refinements in new bombs, he believes, there is still a tried-and-true defense...
...export in large quantities to Lebanon. Dark orange in color and claylike in consistency, Semtex can be detected by trained dogs but apparently not by existing airport equipment. Authorities believed that the bomb, which may have been no larger than two bars of soap, could have had a plastic timer that would not have set off the metal-detecting machines at the Cairo airport...
Unbelievable is the other word on every first-timer's lips. They do not necessarily mean Al Capone's 16-cylinder bulletproof Cadillac (with gunports and authenticating documents) on display at the Imperial Palace. Nor are they referring to eclectic concoctions like the Stardust casino, which features show girls "direct from Paris," orangutans redolent of Borneo, a Moby Dick restaurant and a Polynesian statue out by the sidewalk. No, it is enough that front doors all along the strip are wide open in January, with just a little breeze (and a lot of money) coming across the threshold. Also that...
...First-Timer Howard Deutch is a nice surprise too. His precise, unexploitative direction is sympathetic to the awkward pauses in teen talk, to the mopery of first love, to the suicidal bravado of words spoken in heat. Like Hughes, he is eager to let his fine young actors strut their stuff: McCarthy, his tight, knowing smile intoxicating every female in sight (and doesn't he know it); Cryer, prancing, caroming, jiving nonstop, exploding into a sublime lip synch of Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness; Ringwald, the henna-haired emotional anchor. With their help, any attentive moviegoer can walk...
...timer, Reagan likes to sound a continual rallying cry to youth. Young people will have to live with the events of this time, his message declares. New concern about education, both in families and communities, has already improved classroom discipline and learning. That crusade must go on in the grass roots. And catastrophic medical costs for some elderly patients, so devastating to their families, must be studied to see if there is not some program that would ease the lives of the old and free the young from this threat of economic ruin...