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...Reagan Administration, already discomforted by New Zealand's ban on visits by nuclear-armed vessels, has now bombed out with other allies. William Arkin, a nuclear-policy researcher at the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, leaked a Defense Department contingency plan to station nuclear weapons in seven foreign countries and Puerto Rico if a war seemed imminent. The proposed deployment caused a stir in Canada, Iceland and Bermuda, and would violate a U.S. guarantee not to send nuclear weapons to Puerto Rico. It was not clear if the U.S. had notified any of the countries involved...
...leaked document says that nuclear weapons would also be shipped to Spain, the Philippines, Portugal's Azores and the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. According to Arkin, the weapons are ten-kiloton nuclear depth charges that would be dropped from P-3C Orion planes. The State Department last week asked its embassies to emphasize that no nuclear weapons would be shipped to any country without its permission...
JOSEPH HELLER FIRST achieved his literary notoriety with his novel Catch-22. And after Alan Arkin brought the protagonist Captain Youssarian to life in the film adaptation of the novel. Heller's powerful anti-war statement became widely known and appreciated. In his two act play. We Bombed in New Haven. Heller continues to hammer in his theme almost to the point of cliche. This time, however, the sentiment is not searing, but tepid, and the South House Drama Society's production adds little emotional energy...
Even the star-studded cast of voices and the original music and lyrics of Jimmy Webb can't maintain a patchy plot. Hearing Mis Farrow as the Unicorn. Alan Arkin as Schmedrick, and Jeff Bridges as Prince Lir if anything detracts further from the movie's fluidity; their professional voices are too trained and rhythmic to be convincingly dubbed onto cartoons...
...MOVIE The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Alan Arkin must dispose of a marijuana butt. He is instructed to burn the paper and get rid of the unused marijuana by throwing it in the john and flushing it twice. His partner informs him of people she knew who were in prison because they only flushed once. You can tell that this movie was made...