Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anti-Establishment young. Three years ago last week, a protest demonstration over whether the park belonged to the University of California or the street people and students erupted into an appalling melee between students and police. One man died, another was blinded. The university covered part of the plot with asphalt and bounded it with an 8-ft.-high fence...
...later made him a full Presidium member and gave him the prestigious but honorific title of Chief of State. Finally, Khrushchev gave him power second only to his own in the party. Thus entrenched, and now a master of Kremlin power politics, Brezhnev became a leading member in the plot to oust his patron. Within hours of Khrushchev's fall, Brezhnev slipped into the slot of party chief. Since that time, he has succeeded in outmaneuvering and outdistancing his principal opponents in the Politburo-notably, Alexander Shelepin and Nikolai Podgorny. He has also managed to take over many...
...overcelebrated phrase, it is also as German as strudel, as Russian as borsch, as Japanese as sake. Last week a bomb went off when the wife of a German Supreme Court Justice stepped on the accelerator of her Volkswagen; luckily she escaped with minor injuries from a left-wing plot against her husband. The week before, a top policeman in Milan was shot to death as he walked out of his apartment building. The list grows as long as one wants to make it: foreign diplomats held hostage and killed in peace-loving Sweden, eight Philippine senatorial candidates wounded...
This is a first feature for former Character Actor Steve Ihnat (remember the drunken Texan who beat up Mar lon Brando in The Chase'?). Ihnat bears partial responsibility for writing this lackluster plot, although as a director he fares a good deal better. Unlike most fledgling film makers, Ihnat has an uninsistent and subtle style. He can catch the fleeting mood of a scene in a few shots, most impressively in a terse, brutal barroom brawl, and he has a good eye for local color. A ro deo parade down the main street of Carlsbad, N. Mex., is rendered...
...first Micombero insisted that the uprising was a plot by Tutsi royalists who were trying to free the King. Soon, though, it became clear that the rebels were Hutu revolutionaries whose real aim was to overthrow the Micombero government...