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...King's lawyer, I have to keep my personal viewpoints apart," Lynch said. "I'll only advise him to abandon positions that are legally untenable, and if a position he holds is legally sound, I won't disagree with it unless it's during a free exchange of personal opinions," he added...
...publicly optimistic about an eventual peace treaty, yet the Israelis, who have been the more inflexible, have shown no willingness to give in on the points that divide the parties, chiefly the question of Palestinian self-rule on the West Bank. Dismayed at the impasse, Carter has threatened to abandon his mediation efforts in the Middle East. But the threat is probably an idle one. Instead, Carter may search for some dramatic move to get the negotiations moving again...
...under by the whimsical undertow of Fortune; Cleopatra viciously dunking the poor schlemiel who swims out with the news of Antony's political marriage to Caesar's sister Octavia; Antony, Caesar, and Pompey carousing drunkenly on the eve of their battle, chucking each other off the raft with merry abandon; a broken, wasted Enobarbus sinking from his skeletal ladder into the shadowy waters, his body clutching at bones as it gently bobs on the surface...
...Egyptians' ingratitude, the Saudis have taken to quoting a saying from the Koran: "If you shall be thankful, I shall increase my bounty." Hinting that his country will not abandon the Egyptians entirely, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal likes to recall a time when Nasser savagely attacked King Faisal for months on end. Nasser suspended his attacks just long enough to ask Faisal to give him $10 million so that several thousand Egyptian pilgrims could go to Mecca. The King was annoyed at the shamelessness of the request, but in the end he agreed. After...
...from the same term-contract stable are to be seen in both movies, as are the same hopelessly unrealistic standing sets, only cursorily redecorated. In the first, a New York errand boy (Harry Hamlin), affronted by a contender, knocks him out with a single punch and is induced to abandon his quest for a night-school law degree in order to enter the square circle (about the only cliche not to be heard in the script), in order to earn money for an operation to save his sister's eyesight. "You'll be on the next train...