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...cult figure for The Stepfather two years ago) enmesh him. Eddie's main business may be straightforward enough: to free from Sing Sing a Korean American named Shu Kai Kim (Yuji Okumoto), who is doing hard, not to say life-threatening time for a murder he did not commit. But the path to belated justice is a sleazy maze, twisted as a paranoiac's logic. A key witness is a man who believes the telephone company assassinated John F. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beyond The Fringe | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

Willie believes that those who want Flynn to commit now to more funding should wait until the plan is implemented before pressing their case...

Author: By Joshua M .sharfstein, | Title: 'Controlled Choice' in Boston | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

...Palestinian camp remains unclear. Key Palestinian factions have indicated their disapproval for Arafat's initiative. A joint statement by the heads of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, George Habash, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Naif Hawatmeh, "Arafat's Geneva statements do not commit the PLO to anything and they do not represent official policy." Arafat's statements also "contradicted the resolutions adopted by the PNC [the Palestine National Council...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: A Decision Fit for Solomon | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

...from poor judgment, the safety problems of elderly drivers are more likely to be rooted in the normal processes of aging: diminishing vision and hearing, slowing reflexes and decreasing attention spans. Experts find a link between these kinds of physical degeneration and the driving errors the elderly most often commit: failing to yield the right-of-way, making overly wide left turns, and crashing into other vehicles when backing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can A Driver Be Too Old? | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

Another technological approach would not prevent bombings, but it could help identify those who commit them. Explosives can be chemically "tagged" so that telltale traces can be used to determine their origin after a blast. If producer nations could agree on a tagging system for military explosives, it would increase the chance that future terrorists might be tracked down and brought to justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deceptive Killer | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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