European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Sylvester Stallone returns As the invincible John j. Rambo. Stallone and co Star Richard Canna fool. Trautman tight soviet forces in Afghanistan. He s Back to whip the red army again in a scene from Piambo Iii soviet gun Thipa fire at Hamto. By Robert Barr associated press Ambo rewrote the lessons of the via Nam War by having a tone american guerrilla single Hance by vanquish Hanoi s troops and Isoif soviet advisors now he s Back to whip the Rod army again this time in Afghanistan. Aller freeing american prisoners held Long alter the Eno of the Vietnam War in rambo first blood part ii the muscle bound lighter aces a new communist government propped up by soviet military might guess who wins. Piambo Iii features More of the cartoonist violence o its predecessors with the slow talking last shooting tighter joining horse mounted moslem holy warriors to subdue soviet Armor. He s the same invincible John j. Rambo thai delighted president Ronald Reagan at the time of the Twa hijacking in Beirut in 1985. After seeing Ramiro last night i know what to do the next time this happens Reagan joked thai s wrong actor Sylvester Stallone says hotly. Rambo goes in to end con licks not initiate them. He did t go in to kick the russians Butts he went in to get his friends David Worrell the former Iowa state English professor who created rambo in the novel first blood says he also was offended by Reagan s jest. I can t say i was amused Morren said because i was distressed by the interpretation of the character. But i was bemused because it s a Way of being told How powerful the character is. So i was gratified by Stallone and Morrell who recently came to new York to promote the new dim both say rambo is a Man of peace nol a jingoistic murderer bul a celluloid descendant of the Frontier gunslinger forced into one last Battle. I find it incredible Stallone says his voice rising every Lime some local atrocity occurs where a Man puts on fatigue pants and lakes a Rifle and goes into a shopping Center it s rambo murderer slays three rambo does t kill innocents he s never killed unarmed i keep close watch of this and i know of Only sin cases in which the rambo character was blamed for violent events says Mot Rell. Three were in the United states he said and the others in England Australia and Canada. When i look into these things what happened was that we were dealing with psychotics people who were unbalanced. If it had t been one thing it would have been that their Rice Kris pies did t snap crackle and pop properly in the so what does rambo stand for that depends in part whether it s Hie books of the films. Morrell who had rambo criticizing . Policy in Central America in his Book of Piambo ii had suggested setting the $53 million rambo Iii in Nicaragua. Stallone vetoed that. If rambo fears anything it s controversy. Until that conflict is really Over or until the line of demarcation is drawn. Then i can t ump Inlo that Stallone said of Nicaragua. Afghanistan however was one place where Congress and Reagan agreed on who wore the Black hats. You have 300 million russians is. 12 million afghans who afe undernourished under armed underlined and they Are holding their own. Finally after Svi years they Are receiving some Stallone said Bui rambo does t go in to fight russians. When they accuse me or my characters of red bashing. That is irresponsible because he never says i m Gonna get that dirty commie it never came out of his gee maybe it was All the exploding russians in rambo it or the hulking soviet Boxer in Rocky in that gave the impression that Stallone harbours Strong feelings about Moscow. I used to think i did he said. I understand glasnost and the soviets need to do this i m All for glasnost i Mink the soviet military Branch is totally out of line and they be made mistakes and this is their perhaps the real villain in rambo s world is the . Government to first blood which became a film in 1982. Rambo wages War against a Sherill who was a decorated hero of tha korean War. The Story ends with Page 14 the stars and stripes Friday i
