蘭保的朋友勞特曼上校請他幫忙一項任務，卻被他拒絕了。但勞特曼被捉後，蘭保隨即隻身展開救援任務。
一個噯昧的年代，政治上是非黑白顛倒，感情也可變得真假難分。王佳芝與易先生活於汪精衛的偽政府年代，女的是愛國份子，男的是特務頭目。一切快要分崩離析，王佳芝受愛國組織之命，暗殺特務易先生。易先生挑通眼眉，唯獨天生好色。色誘行動順理成章地展開，暗殺行動卻又終告失敗，但王佳芝與易先生的私情，又豈可就此告吹？
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of Halef's Hadedhin Beduin tribe's sheik Mohammed Emin, has been captured by the machredsh (Turkish governor) of Mossul for resisting water seizure by his Turkish troops. Kara takes charge of the rescue.
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.
The war on drugs has been going on for more than three decades. Today, nearly 500,000 Americans are imprisoned on drug charges. In 1980 the number was 50,000. Last year $40 billion in taxpayer dollars were spent in fighting the war on drugs. As a result of the incarceration obsession, the United States operates the largest prison system on the planet. Today, 89 percent of police departments have paramilitary units, and 46 percent have been trained by active duty armed forces. The most common use of paramilitary units is serving drug-related search warrants, which usually involve no-knock entries into private homes.