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...finally gets his existential shit together when he meets Leonard II (Seymour Cassel), a fiery wild-eyed money burning Jerry Rubin style terrorist and gets into a back-up bomber action at a conspiracy trial. Williams aims at more than "realism" by portraying this final sequence as unsenstional, without crowds or reporters. The cerie setting he comes an apotheosis of the existential situation: the problem of the individual's depth-perception, the limits of the revolutionary's knowledge into his support and his justification. The People are no where to be seen, and an oppressive silence dominates...
...said. Some witnesses thought they heard him cry: "Belfast: see how you like it!" Another said it was: "How do you like that, you bastards? Now you know what it's like in Belfast." And an American visitor, who had been sitting next to the terrorist in the gallery, heard: "You can have a taste of it! This is what it was like in Belfast...
...Though more than 100,000 Protestants donned bowler hats for Orange Order parades in such potential trouble spots as Belfast, Londonderry, Maghera and Armagh, there was no violence. The only casualties of the week came three days later, when a bomb planted in a Belfast bank by an unknown terrorist hurt 31 bystanders...
...torture. Repressive measures have increased dramatically since December 1968, when the military men who have run Latin America's largest and most populous (90,840,000) nation for six years sent the Congress temporarily packing and curbed most political activities. Denied outlets for protest, some dissidents turned to terrorist acts ranging from bombing and bank robbery to kidnaping and murder. With estimates of the number of terrorists running as high as 10,000, those responsible for combating the threat-mostly junior-grade policemen and military men-apparently resorted increasingly to torture. As in a number of other Latin American...
Undeniable as the terrorist threat is, the obvious consequence of official over-reaction-aside from the appalling human suffering-is that many moderates will be driven into the extremists' camp. A typical response recently came from a minor member of Brazil's opposition, who was picked up for "questioning" about some extremists with whom he was wrongly linked. He left with a hand that was disfigured from having fingernails pulled out and the palm burned with cigarettes. "If I had known where to find a terrorist group," he said after his release, "I would have joined it immediately...