To combat fears about crime and graft, he named the Rambo-esque former mayor of Manila Alfredo Lim to head the department of interior and local government.

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Although Vietnam themes have been a mainstay for Hollywood movies over the decades, all the flicks, from Green Berets and Apocalypse Now to the Rambo series, were shot elsewhere, usually the Philippines or Thailand.

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"I call it the Rambo, " says Dr Wall.

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This cliche was seized upon rather memorably in the third of Sylvester Stallone's Rambo films, when the frequently shirtless Vietnam veteran joined their struggle in a mind-blowingly violent movie that was released just as the Soviets were actually withdrawing from Afghanistan.

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But Rambo is on the ropes.

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And as the two species slug it out for Antarctic dominance, Rambo appears to be losing, declining 65% in the last few years.

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But by and large, Rambo and friends rule the transnational Asian market.

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Known as "Rambo", Ramsey progressed through the youth ranks at Cardiff City.

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Surprising acceptance, perhaps, given endless twittering about the replacement of British cultural values, particularly among the young, by coarse American cultural values--Rambo for Henry V, Warhol rather than Turner, Eminem in place of Elgar or Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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Either you can be a ghost, sneaking through the levels unseen through secret passageways, taking enemies down with non-lethal force, or you can be a full-on Rambo, upgrading your exoskeleton with armor and the ability to shoot explosives in every direction as you unload automatic weapons into any nearby guard.

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The shootings of Thomas Holmes, James Holmes and Tony Draper were described in Peterborough Crown Court as a "Rambo-style attack".

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