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...familiar with the legally enforced segregation which the government of South Africa imposes on the non-white majority of that nation agrees that the injustices must come to a rapid conclusion. But concerned parties have never been able to agree on the best policy for instituting reform in that backward nation...
Writer-Producer Mann, who researched the movie by talking to most of the principals, insists that his version is fair and accurate. "I bent over backward to be objective," he says. "This goes beyond whether Wayne Williams is guilty or innocent. The case raises tremendous issues: about the use of fiber evidence, about the use of pattern (the admission of evidence from other $ killings besides the two for which Williams was charged), about the closing of the cases so quickly after the conviction." Some in Atlanta agree that the movie will, at the very least, renew calls to reopen...
...people is so great it almost crushes me." In his first press conference the President-elect vowed that "the first, the most important and the most absolute of all the priorities of my government" would be to solve the economic problems of Brazil's northeast. This is the most backward region of the country; its inhabitants are so poor that they are known as "the afflicted ones." A recurrent theme of the press conference was inflation, which is now increasing at an annual rate of about 230%. Neves said that cuts in public spending are vital, but vowed...
...they were outclassed; almost anyone would be, but that did not make the situation any easier. The group disbanded in 1972, and four years and two halfheartedly received solo albums later, Fogerty shut himself down. He did not stop making music--"Once you stop the next step is backward, and you're going to end up in a bar some place in Albuquerque"--but he did something much harder. He started all over again...
...makers of cigarettes and brandy the commuters slumber, read and reshuffle. Does a real-life Falling in Love ever happen? A pinochle player looks up with genuine tears in his eyes and says, "From afar." In the middle of the car a querulous drunk complains that his seat faces backward. His companion argues, "But you're facing west, and west is the city." The man with the clock says, "About this point, the lights usually go out." They...