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Since the movie doesn't star a frumpy dog with a sad face, it stars a crippled kid with a sad face (Corey Haim). The kid zips around town in a motorized wheelchair called "The Silver Bullet," longingly watches his buddies play baseball, sneaks out of his room late at night to light fireworks and does other such adorable things...
...being saddled with responsibility for little brothers. To protect her son from "giving up" she tries to shelter him from tiffs with his sister and other "unpleasantness," but she does nothing to keep the 13-year-old crippled boy from racing all around town on a souped-up motorized wheelchair that blows by cars as if they were standing still. Even after his best friend is torn to pieces by the werewolf, she doesn't put an end to the boy's wandering. It all seems silly...
...cruise of the Mediterranean, an Italian liner, the Achille Lauro, with 123 passengers and 315 crew aboard, was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen. Once again American passengers were singled out for especially brutal attention. One of them, Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of New York City, a stroke victim confined to a wheelchair, was shot in cold blood through the forehead and his body thrown overboard...
Next morning, when 666 passengers left the ship for a day of sight-seeing and shopping in Cairo, Marilyn and her husband Leon, 69, stayed aboard. A retired appliance manufacturer, Leon had been confined to a wheelchair after suffering two strokes during the past three years. Another member of the group, Mildred Hodes, of Springfield, N.J., had planned to join her husband Frank on the Cairo trip, but at the last moment she changed her mind. That decision very nearly cost Mildred Hodes her life...
...exactly what point these sadistic threats became reality is not known. But in a now familiar ritual of terrorism, the hijackers had decided to underscore their seriousness by taking a sacrifice. First they separated Leon Klinghoffer from his wife. "No," said one gunman to the wheelchair-bound passenger. "You stay. She goes." Marilyn Klinghoffer never saw her husband again. For the next 24 hours she and her friends were consumed by anxiety. When the hijacking was finally over, they looked all through the ship for him, though they expected the worst. Some passengers had noted that the trousers and shoes...