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...acting taken to the edge of madness. Lest doubts linger, his films provide instant replays from different angles. Under the closing credits are outtakes showing blown stunts, with comic or near tragic results. Executing a fairly routine jump in Yugoslavia for The Armour of God, he missed a tree branch, hit his head on a rock and almost died. Chan has a memento of the accident: a thimble-size hole in the right side of his head. If you ask nicely, he'll let you put your finger...
...thought to be the chief hit man for Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal has been arrested in southern Lebanon. Security officials there disclosed today that they had seized Mahmoud Khaled Eintour, 48, also known as Abu Ali Majed, the man who allegedly headed the assassination branch of Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council. Lebanese officials, who plan to try Eintour on kidnapping and murder charges, blame him for hijacking a French yacht off Gaza in 1987 and arranging the killing of a top Jordanian diplomat last year. Nidal himself tops most wanted lists in the U.S., Europe and the Mideast...
...bombers? SHKAKI: By chance I knew Salah Shaaker. When he was a boy, he used to come to my home in the Gaza Strip; his older brothers were in the nucleus of the movement. But I myself did not choose the bombers. This was the work of our military branch. Some of the youths insist they want to lead a suicide operation--perhaps because they are influenced by the teachings of Islamic Jihad. My orders are to persuade them not to go--to test them. If they still insist, they are chosen. TIME: How can you justify the killing...
Sasser offers a sharp critique of his compatriots in the executive branch. His loss, he said, was due in part to the "unacceptability of many of the [Clinton] administration's policies" that led to the "wholesale desertion of the Democratic Party by white males in the South...
Most of the people at CfA advise against tryingto discern which branch, Harvard or Smithsonian,is responsible for which projects...