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...years the writer-director has been devising scenarios of mastodon machismo (Jeremiah Johnson, Magnum Force, Big Wednesday, Apocalypse Now) in which Real Men-guys so tough you could ice-skate on them-attain a state of Zen purity through self-denial, cunning and random slaughter. But these films were like peace pamphlets compared with his latest crimson vision. In Red Dawn he and Co-Author Kevin Reynolds suggest that the U.S. is susceptible to military takeover by parachuting Communist troops; that the Soviets would establish "reeducation camps" in Colorado and show Ivan the Terrible at the local moviehouse; and that...
...officials say that the Ugandan army has never been adequately trained or disciplined. Incidents of random violence have increased in recent months, and some analysts suspect that the army may be out of Obote's control. Underfed and poorly paid, soldiers roam the country in gangs, setting up roadblocks to rape and rob hapless travelers. Funeral announcements on the radio and in the press refer more frequently now to "sudden death," a euphemism used when the deceased has been killed by the army. Says a U.S. expert: "They can't end the guerrilla movement so they seem determined...
BLOODS: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR BY BLACK VETERANS by Wallace Terry; Random House; 311 pages...
TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE by Norman Mailer Random House; 229 pages...
...tremors interrupted the underground-waterstreams that feed the geyser from mysterious sources and diverted them into new channels. Visitors to Yellowstone Park are not entirely blameless either: over the past six months, the geyser has spewed up coins, bottles, a door hinge, part of a metal clipboard and random fragments of oak furniture...