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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lives of the hostages are important and they should be rescued if possible. But their sacrifice may be, as it often has been, the price of empire. The primary consideration is to visit upon Iran such a condign punishment that neither that country nor the rest of the world will forget the lesson in ten generations...
...will former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and certain diplomats from the Third World. Henry Kissinger, former everything, will step a notch up. So will Anwar Sadat's skillful Washington envoy Ashraf Ghorbal. Spies are back, and the Carter Administration will not be using the word love quite so often or in quite the same...
...Writes Linowitz in his accompanying letter to the President: "A hungry world is an unstable world ..." The report goes a step further: "The most potentially explosive force in the world today is the frustrated desire of poor people to attain a decent standard of living. The anger, despair and often hatred that result represent a real and persistent threat to international order." What is more, notes the study, the world's economy is going to suffer if today's poor countries do not increase their purchasing power...
...logic. Half-human, half pointy-eared green-blooded native of the planet Vulcan, the ship's science officer delighted in complex calculation, excelled at the mystical mindmeld and the mundane "Spock pinch," and continually confronted the fluctuations of Kirk's human emotions with rigorous Vulcan rationality. Even though he often sparred verbally and physically, with Kirk and Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley), the crusty old ship's surgeon from Georgia, Spock demonstrated that his heart was in the right place (about where the liver is in humans...
...sequel will be better" before the Enterprise even leaves dock, you know there are problems. The special effects beat the plot into submission. The dialogue is stilted, relegated to the role of filler between interminable shots of the Enterprise or "that...thing" which is threatening Earth. The actors are often mere props, going through the motions trying vainly to recapture long-lost glory, not given a chance to grow by a script that, sadly, never gets off the ground. And the ending...well, its been done before, better, on Star Trek, and for much, much less cash...