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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...despite a few unrelated, silly interruptions and interventions by that favorite Pudding presence deus ex machina (though it's not allowed in the Andatramp household), the plot stays constant almost to the end, rather than sort of crumping out before intermission...
Japanese investigators have traced 42,000 of the fake coins to Paul Davis, 38, a well-respected British dealer. Davis voluntarily flew to Tokyo to try to sort things out. He has reportedly told police that he believed the coins were genuine when he bought them from a Zurich dealer, who claimed to be handling them for an undisclosed Middle Eastern government...
...just the sort of event that India and Pakistan fear could provoke a fourth war. There had been a huge rally in Sialkot, Pakistan, to mark a nationwide strike protesting India's crackdown on Muslims in the state of Jammu and Kashmir who are agitating for independence or merger with Pakistan. Afterward, about 4,000 people marched to the village of Suchetgarh and threatened to cross into India. Pakistani rangers tried to stop them, but 150 protesters pushed through, chanting anti-India slogans and setting fire to bushes and grass. Indian border troops warned the encroachers, then fired, killing three...
Well, it's true. Sort...
...although all the characters are from Brighton Beach, you wouldn't know it by listening to them. One of the actors affects an thick accent of the sort usually reserved for Jewish jokes, while another has no accent...