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When Adela begins to awaken to her own sexuality, it is at a temple covered with erotic statuary and guarded by a large troop of anarchically aggressive monkeys. Later, going to testify at Aziz's trial, she must drive through a crowd raging at her, and a man in a monkey costume leaps on her car, pressing his face menacingly against the window. Is it this echo that impels her to testify that she was the victim of a hallucination and thus free Aziz from his anguish? The movie is silent on the point, allowing us to make what...
...increase over the amount spent on infrastructure in the previous six years. The ministers also pledged to increase munition stocks. By so doing, the alliance ministers were in effect agreeing to firm U.S. requests for an increase in contributions, with the threat from Congress of possible major troop withdrawals if they...
When Boies queried the witness about Westmoreland's estimates of enemy troop strength, McNamara readily acknowledged that the numbers did not "add up." He disputed, just as the CBS documentary did, Westmoreland's claim in 1967 that the U.S. had finally reached the "crossover point," at which more enemy forces were being killed than could be replaced. But he characterized his dispute with Westmoreland as an honest difference of opinion. Actually, he testified, he regarded estimates of enemy strength as inherently unreliable and unimportant. It was a remarkable aside from the precision-minded man who was often accused...
...almost a decade had residents of Santiago seen anything like the show of government firepower mounted throughout their city last week. At dawn, long lines of green-and-brown troop-transport trucks began rolling along the Chilean capital's suburban avenues. Soldiers took up positions at traffic circles, machine guns at the ready. Armored cars growled to a halt at the edge of the slum areas in the southern part of the city. Along the dusty streets that honeycomb the shantytowns, rifle-toting soldiers were stationed every 100 yards. Meanwhile, helicopters clattered noisily overhead...
...Washington, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson struggled to relieve his country's embarrassment over the Chad affair. Said he: "Gaddafi is a fact. He is the leader of Libya, an independent country. To ignore him would be a political mistake." France has resumed negotiations with Libya over the troop withdrawal, an action opposed by Washington on the ground that there is no point in bargaining with one of the chief instigators of international terrorism. But Cheysson insisted: "What would the U.S. have us do? Enter into war with Libya? The only reasonable policy is the one we have said...