Mr Ghaffur is taking legal action against Sir Ian and a junior colleague, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Richard Bryan.

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Frank Lautenberg (New Jersey) and Richard Bryan (Nevada) joined New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan in announcing they would not seek re-election.

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Aside from a few attempts to ape silent-slapstick style, the director of this sprawling bio-pic, Richard Attenborough, and the screenwriters (William Boyd, Bryan Forbes, and William Goldman, working from a story by Diana Hawkins), do their job like crammers.

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