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...crossing its borders and that prohibits the open practice of any religion other than Islam serves as temporary home to hundreds of American Jewish soldiers and scores of U.S. military chaplains. And a nation that used to allow no more than 20 reporters a year to visit has suddenly found itself swamped by 800 journalists in the past seven weeks, all eager to explore the kingdom's secretive ways...
Most Scorsese movies are all exposition. The characters don't grow or learn, they just get found out. Same, in spades, here. So it is Scorsese's triumph that GoodFellas offers the fastest, sharpest 2 1/2-hr. ride in recent film history. He has said he wanted his picture to have the speed and info overload of a movie trailer. Two great labyrinthine tracking shots -- at a neighborhood bar and the Copacabana -- introduce, with lightning grace, about a million wise guys. Who are they? What are they doing, and who are they doing in? Just to catch all the ambient...
...asked after all my old enemies. Colonel Goosen? Dead. Colonel Van der Merwe? Retired. Captain Hansen? Transferred. Captain Schoeman? Somewhere up- country. I already knew that Lieut. Jan Marais, who had once mailed an acid-tainted T shirt to my five-year-old daughter Mary, had been found drowned in his own swimming pool...
Ever since she was dismissed as Prime Minister more than a month ago on charges of corruption and general incompetence, Benazir Bhutto has waited anxiously to see what legal grenades the government would toss at her. Last week she found out. With new elections scheduled for late October, the government filed charges in four cases, accusing her of misuse of power while in office. Insisted the former Prime Minister: "The cases are ridiculous...
Though the charges do not carry jail terms, she would be barred from holding public office for the next seven years if found guilty -- which is exactly what her opponents want. The most serious charge grows out of a Bhutto government decision last year to sell 287 acres of public land in the capital city of Islamabad to a London firm, Messers International Guarantee Trust Co. The government offered the land for $1 million, though its real market value was reputed to have been closer to 15 times that amount. The implication is that someone in authority stood to benefit...