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...fact, the Dominican Republic last week seemed so peaceful that plans were going ahead for the final withdrawal of the Inter-American Peace Force by next week. Some Dominicans feared that the withdrawal would trigger a coup by leftists, by the military, or both. Balaguer evidently did not share that fear. Besides, he knew that if anything did happen, peace-force troops could be recalled within hours...
Sandals & Beards. The trigger that sets Drury's plot in motion is a revolution in the emerging African nation of Gorotoland. U.S. President Harley M. Hudson (the "Vice President" of Advise and Consent) cautions the insurgents against endangering American life and property there. But the rebels ignore him, kill 50 Americans and set fire to the local Standard Oil facilities. Hudson swiftly dispatches U.S. troops to Gorotoland, and goes on the air to tell the U.S.: "It was time to re-establish the fact that when America says something, she means it. Specifically, it was time to re-establish...
Cliff is a chunky high school dropout whose shirttail flaps in the breeze and whose hair-trigger temper has at one time or another 1) brought him an official reprimand from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association and 2) cost him a place on the U.S. Davis Cup team. Psychologists would probably trace Cliff's troubles back to his formative years-between twelve and 14-when he played with his sister and "she beat me every time." Says Cliff: "She used to beat me so often that she didn't even want to play me any more...
...Brioni as the site of the purge. Both Ranković and Stefanović are Serbians-the dominant race in Yugoslavia's six-nation mix*-and Belgrade itself is the old Serb capital. Tito may well have feared that by denouncing Ranković on his home ground, he might trigger a Serb uprising...
...accomplished scene-stealers in movies. Grouped like angry mosquitoes in the grey-green skies over France during World War I, a handful of meticulously reconstructed biplanes and triplanes give this ambitious battle drama its only real sting. Goggled pilots, scarves tucked into their leather daredevil jackets, scramble aloft to trigger a full-throttle facsimile of the epic aerial combats of 1918. Of course, as members of an enemy German squadron, the men in their flying machines are shown to be less than magnificent...