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“... than they wanted Pacino. ‘They wanted Jack Nicholson. They wanted Robert Redford. They wanted Warren Beatty or Ryan O’Neal.’ Imagine The Godfather with Robert Redford as Michael! But Francis Ford Coppola had wanted Pacino from the start and was finally able to persuade the studio execs after they saw eight minutes of footage from The Panic in Needle ...”

“... martyrdom. He showed me his pirated translation of Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq by Kenneth Timmerman. I had the English-language original, which claims some Western Governments covertly approved their entrepreneurs’ efforts to sell Saddam an arsenal of horrendous weapons. Like Timmerman, Mr Karimi found it hard to believe that the West German ...”

“... Does it still hold? Will the Chinese Communist Party now be permitted to operate in Hong Kong? Kenneth Lieberthal raises this interesting question in his contribution to Hong Kong under Chinese Rule, but has no ready answer. Hong Kong’s British governors were all appointed by, and solely responsible to, the government in London, but they were assisted by ...”