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George Stevens Jr. has assembled a feature-length portrait of his father from interviews, film clips and family memorabilia (including some riveting home- away-from-home movies of the Allied landing in Normandy, which Senior filmed at the request of General Eisenhower). The chronicler has his father's sharp eye and leisurely sense of pace; he takes his time telling a story that means much to him. The perspective is both judicious and adoring, as if he were young Brandon de Wilde to his father's Shane. The old pro taught the boy how to shoot and, as this moving...
...laugh at the claim made by the lawyer of one of Goetz's alleged victims: "Give me $5" was a request, not a demand made of Goetz. Yeah, sure. Brian O'Neill Hamden, Conn...
Ronis said that his request hasn't disturbed his dormmates greatly, adding. "I guess they view me as a bit eccentric for doing a play in my room, and I suppose...
...Soviet captain emerged from the personnel carrier. "We want the three men back," he said, addressing Pakistani frontier policemen in English. Beside | him, an Afghan officer repeated the request in Urdu, adding, "If we don't have them back, you will be in for a lot of trouble." The Soviet vehicle then turned around and rumbled back into Afghanistan. "Not a shot was fired," a Pakistani officer recalled. "But just in case we didn't believe they meant business, they dropped 80 artillery shells on our positions that night." For the next two days, sporadic tank and artillery fire fell...
...Honduras ended. The contras could use some help. Though the U.S. Congress does not seem to be terribly disturbed by the American military maneuvers, it cut off direct funding of the anti-Sandinista rebels last June. A vote likely in the next month on the Reagan Administration's request to renew aid with a $14 million appropriation is expected to be breathtakingly close. Bereft, at least temporarily, of Washington financing, the guerrillas have been making little progress lately against the Sandinistas...