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Defiant Puerto Rican terrorists boycott the courtroom
...fact, eleven defendants were absent. All are members of the Puerto Rican independence group called F.A.L.N. (short for Fuerzas Armadas de Liberation National Puertorriqueña), which specializes in terrorist bombings. Calling themselves prisoners of war, the defendants refused to recognize the authority of the court or take part in the proceedings. (One of the eleven remains a fugitive.) Said Michael Mason, a federal defender who sat quietly in a corner in case legal advice was needed: "Several refused to see me. The ones who would see me wouldn't talk...
...following Charlotte again as she slashes the throats of horny, innocent fools. Meanwhile, back at the "fort", the new play-by-the-book commander (Edward Asner) is giving Murphy a hard time but Murphy can't really be concerned with this since his new love, a Puerto-Rican nurse, has a dark secret and the local drug-dealer is up to no good and the whole neighborhood is being torn apart by riots. Gould orchestrates these dramatic situations with the skill of an armless conductor...
...Last Honest Cop, supposedly appalled by the corruption in the precinct and the squalor in the streets, an ancient cliche. Murphy might have been utilized as the liberal mouthpiece for the film-makers' ideas on urban blight--but Petrie and Gould blow it again. Murphy tells his Puerto Rican girlfriend that he stays in the Bronx because he wants to help the victimized citizenry, he says he understands them: "You see Puerto Ricans are really no different from us Irish. We both like to dance and drink and make love." Great; ethnic stereotypes lead to better cultural relations...
...haven't seen any of those people trying to build something and that's the key to understanding Fort Apache's Quandary. For two hours the South Bronx's inhabitants have been presented as pimps, hookers, junkies, dealers, theives, and killers--all of them either Black or Puerto Rican. And American audiences will not see victims of an inhumane racist capitalist system--they will see looters and murderers who should be, in the view of this film, punished. When the neighborhood is in an uproar over random arrests, Murphy tells us that the community leaders will demand justice. But what...