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...base, the stench of death was overpowering. Inside the onetime Libyan stronghold, which was overrun by Chadian troops in March, the unburied bodies of five Libyan pilots lay in a pit. Nearby, some 30 Soviet and Czech jet fighters, half of them unscathed, glittered in the sun. The aircraft were a small part of the advanced Soviet bloc weaponry that the forces of Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi left behind as they fled. The value of the abandoned materiel, along with the base itself and Libyan armaments lost in other desert battles, was estimated at nearly $1 billion...
...Inquirer, which has developed into one of the nation's leading papers under Executive Editor Eugene Roberts, led the field with three awards. (Its third was for a feature story by Steve Twomey about life aboard an aircraft carrier.) The New York Times won two: one for its coverage of the aftermath of the space shuttle Challenger disaster and another for reporting by Alex S. Jones on the breakup of the Bingham family's Louisville newspaper empire. The / Los Angeles Times also took two prizes: for Michael Parks' reports from South Africa and Richard Eder's book criticism. Charles Krauthammer...
...more than two decades, the U.S. had some short-range missiles in Europe, such as ballistic Pershing I's in West Germany. Coupling depended largely on intermediate-range, nuclear-armed U.S. aircraft at bases on allied soil and on carriers patrolling the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. In order to attack the U.S.S.R., fighter-bombers would have to run a gauntlet of Soviet antiaircraft installations, but nonetheless they were deemed a sufficient counter to clunky, obsolescent Soviet missiles...
With each of these historical events comes a reminder of the inescapable past; it seems that nearly everything from cigarette lighters to aircraft, and nearly everyone from old neighbors to his new friend, Cor Takes (John Kraaykamp), reminds him of that terrible day long ago. Objects Anton sees physically become the objects they make him remember. Even Anton's first wife, Saskia, bears a striking resemblance to the woman he met in jail (both are played by Monique...
While Lethal Weapon (Chestnut Hill) does have some humorous moments in it, the really funny thing is how efficiently it exploits the supposedly normal moviegoing public. Guns, explosions, aircraft, firearms, things blowing up, helicopters, small arms, balls of hot expanding gas--Lethal Weapon is like a Borden Condensed Action Film, pasteurized to remove the sex. Having said this--and Dewitt thinks it needs to be said--Weapon is, despite its obviousness, an enjoyable film...