Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 8, 1990
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Briefs
Soviet march interrupted by shots fired in Red Square
Mikhail Gorbachev sought public harmony by joining a Revolution Day march yesterday, but the mood was broken when a man brandish a sword and two shots in Red Square before he was arrested.
About four minutes after Gorbachev went on top of the Lenin mausoleum, two shots were fired.
Plainclothes police, hundreds of whom line Red Square during public events, grabbed the man as he leveled a sawed-off hunting rifle and mounted a musketole about 80 yards away. Tass reported.
Pakistan's state of emergency halted by new prime minister
KGB Chairperson Vladimir Kryuchov, asked at a Kremlin reception whether the man was sane, replied: "Not in our our opinion . . . but we are investigating."
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted Piskad's day of emergency yesterday, his first day on the job.
The emergency, which had given the army sweeping powers to suspend individual rights to maintain law and order, was imposed Aug. 6 — a week after the government was dismissed for alleged corruption.
Sharif said he wanted the new government headed by his right-wing Islamic Democratic Alliance to begin in an open atmosphere of human freedom.
U.S. helicopter carrying three crashes in sea near Greece
A U.S. Army transport helicopter carrying three crewmen crashed last night in the sea between Corinth and Athens, Greece officials said. No survivors were found.
A spokesperson for the Athens Region Control Center that monitors Greek air traffic said the UH-1 Huey helicopter vanished from radar screens at 6:20 p.m. in the Saronic Gulf near
Iraq promises to free 120 hostages, some Americans
Iraq yesterday promised to free 120 hostages, including a few U.S. citizens, but U.S. officials criticized Saddam Hussein for his use of the military force in an envoy who have been seeking to free them
The Associated Press
State Department spokesperson Richard Boucher said U.S. officials had not been notified yet about plans to free any U.S. citizens. He denounced Iraq's "cynical barring" of captive foreigners trapped by Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait.
Iraqi officials did not say when the 120 would be freed, but they suggested it would be soon. The announcement marked the second time in two days Baghdad agreed to release a large group of
And in some of her strongest remarks about the 3-month-old Persian Gulf standoff, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned Saddam that time was running out for a peaceful solution.
Thatcher told British lawmakers they must send the Iraqi president the message that "either he gets out of Kuwait soon or we and our allies will go down in a war, then we will go down to defeat with all the consequences.
Afterwards, Iraq's information minister, reacting to her saber-rolling words, said she was not at a loss for the facts.
"He has been warned."
In a statement carried by the official Iraqi news Agency, Minister Latif Nassafyaj Sissim said that Thatcher's statements in general on the gulf crisis were one done and did not beift the office of prime minister.
Her speeches "filled with rancor and hatred toward the Iraqi people, and her continued calls for beating the drums of war unequivocally show the realization that she is not a bully," she has just her mental balance," the statement said.
has issued him said the only explanation for a woman advocating war was that "the devil has found a comfortable dwelling within her mind and conscience."
At the United Nations, diplomats said the United States had drafted a Security Council resolution authorizing the use of U.N. military force against Iraq if adopted, the measure would be an unprecedented step.
But the draft has not been circulated to other Security Council members because Secretary of State James Baker is still trying to line up support for him, the diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity.
WETRE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE
A leasing agreement about U.S. use of the installations is schedled to expire in September. Manila wants the U.S. military phase out by then, and the Japan government proposed a withdrawal period of 10 or 12 years.
future of Clark and five other U.S. military facilities in the Philippines.
WASHINGTON — All U.S. jet fighters based in the Philippines will be withdrawn by September, the Pentagon announced yesterday on the eve of a series of negotiations about the future of U.S. bases there.
U.S. planes to leave Philippines
The 48 aircraft will be removed from Clark Air Base along with more than 1,800 Air Force personnel, leaving a U.S. military airlift command unit, training units and special operations forces at Clark, the Pentagon. Between 7,500 and 8,000 Air Force personnel are based at Clark.
President Corazon Aquino has set a January deadline for completing the negotiations.
The Associated Press
The U.S. statement about removal of the 48 fighter aircraft said that the decision was unilateral and not a result of the basis negotiations. It added, however, that the decision was influenced
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Film's many plots chaotic, charming
Sometimes polished performers can elevate a chaotic script into a likable and endearing film. "Tune in Tomorrow" is an example.
The novel “Aunt Julia and the ScriptWriter” by Mario Vargas Llosa may have read like a flight of whimsy, but film is a more exacting medium than literature. William Boyd's adaptation and Jon Amiel's adaptation, but too some worthwhile moments, but too often the audience is left perplexed.
In the opening sequence, a 1980s radio station is warned about a bomb, and workers scramble out of the building. Only a lone, dark figure tapping at a typewriter remains. The building explodes and bursts into the mystery typist casually exits by a side door and vanishes into the night.
What is going on here? Has he bombed the place himself? There is nary a clue until late in the film.
Orleans. Keami Reeves is an eager 21-year-old working at a radio station. He is intrigued by the return of his aunt (by marriage), Barbara Hershey, who has fled from two failed marriages in New York. A liberated woman, she shocks her friends by being a very Aware of the age difference, she rebuffs his professions of love, but he persists.
Enter Peter Falk, an eccentric soap opera writer, whose incest-ridden drama electrifies all of New Orleans. Inexplicably, he peppers his audience with a flirtatious His reason for the libels is obscure, but the end result is explosive.
The May-December romance is the most appealing part of "Tune in," and the show's focus on who consistently gives her material more than it sometimes deserves. Reeves, with slicked-back '95-style clothes, stars out of Hollywood's new young actors.
The two plots continue on parallel, unconnected paths but finally converge near the end. Never a subtle actor, Falk plays close to the edge and sometimes slips over, as when he impersonates a French maid.
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Williams fails in "Cadillac Man"
Robin Williams may agree with the Los Angeles Lakers on the proposition that you can't win them all.
After receiving Academy Award nominations for "Good Morning, Vietnam," it appeared the comic could do no wrong. Alas, he throws a piston with a hammer.
Williams is far too inventive a performer to fail completely. But his protean talents are straitjacketed by Joey O'Brien, a charless, sex-crazy car salesperson whose redemption comes too late.
"Cadillac Man" begins with promise. Under the titles, a helicopter shot focuses on the New York skyline, then across an endless landscape of cemetery, a funeral profession is stalled by a disabled heapex.
Enter Joey, who sells cars with the zeal of Michael Milken peddled junk bonds. He befriends the mortician and gives him a card. When he tries
the same with the widow (Elane Stritch in a funny bit), she calls him a sleaze.
That what's he, is all. Right. Joe will say anything to sell a car. Meanwhile, he tries to service two mistresses — one a married woman (Fran Drescher), the other a ditsy would be designer (Annabella Sciorra). plocate his ex wife (Pamela Rowe), then find someone doing a debt-collecting moss boss (Ball Nelson). Joe also faces an impossible sales muota or he's fired.
The tedium of Joey's trawalks ends with a crash, Tim Robbins smashes the showroom door with his cycle. He is flared and may easily seek the lower of his wife.
Are hostage situations a likely source of comedy? After watching the nightly news you might not think they are a problem. You mightly to make it work, and they almost succeed. The rangy, wildeyed Robbins, impressive as the feckless minor league player in "Bull" is the most irritating aggritates as the reluctant terrorist.
The two stars and the large supporting cast get little help from Ken Friedman's lusterless script.
The Associated Press
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