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...Americans also insist that the army should make every effort to consolidate control of the nation's highways, where guerrillas have robbed motorists and burned some 80 vehicles in the past two weeks. Instead, the Defense Minister, General Jose Guillermo Garcia, decided to commit crack regiments to chase after guerrillas in Morazan. "It was a stupid, macho decision," said a Western ambassador in San Salvador. "They have to clean out the vital areas of the country before going up into that wasteland...
...Italian I resent your review of Mussolini [June 7]. The cowed and incapacitated Italian army, navy and air force that you refer to made it possible for the U.S. Army to land practically undisturbed in Southern Italy. The minimal resistance of our troops actually helped the Americans chase the Nazis and what was left of the Fascists out of the country. The Italians by then supported neither group. We had had enough of the war. Fascism is but two decades in Italy's 3,000-year history. It is too early to judge that period without bias...
...than his still keen airman's skills. They want him to sneak into Russia, filch the futuristic fighter plane that provides the film with its title as well as its best moments, and wing it out of there. Disguises, fake papers, sly street-corner meetings in Moscow, a chase on the subway, murder in the men's room-the stuff of uncounted spy movies is piled on, albeit with the unassuming efficiency that is the hallmark of Eastwood's directorial style. If he can't make it fresh, he can make it lively. The fact that...
Drysdale's special twist was to acquire arepo from, in most cases, Chase Manhattan and then resell it on the open market at a premium price that reflected its accrued interest. Immediately thereafter, Drysdale would turn around and buy a replacement Treasury security of identical face value, but one that had less accumulated interest. The second security was then used to settle the repo account when it eventually came due. In this way, Drysdale kept its accounts in apparent balance yet continued to pocket a portion of the interest on each repo deal. High interest rates derailed the whole...
...performers, it must be said they get no help from writers who lost their sense of humor in their labyrinthine plot. The story is illogical and is without the kind of inventive startlements that make logic irrelevant to pleasure. Director Sidney Poitier is always cutting to some chase or other, all of which he handles with glum professionalism. But it is disheartening that a star team with the potential brilliance of Wilder and Radner had to take off on such an ungainly turkey...