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...Ladd Co., beset in the past year by the commercial flops of The Right Stuff, Star 80 and Mike's Murder, could not have been happy to find itself with one more auteurist fantasia. When Leone delivered his film at an hour over the contracted 2 hr. 45 min., a team headed by Editor Zach Staenberg went to work, putting the story into chronological order, jettisoning some of the most operatically violent scenes, dropping Deborah (and her child by Max) from the 1968 section and giving Max a new way out of his climactic misery. Says Jay Kanter, vice...
...first MX missiles are to be stored deep in underground silos, a basing mode that was chosen only after more than 30 other methods were considered. Politically, however, the MX (for missile experimental) program has long had a more precarious base: on the edge of a cliff. Beset by controversy through four Administrations, the weapon was saved from extinction by a bipartisan presidential commission a year ago and funded by a reluctant Congress, only after strong lobbying by Ronald Reagan. Last week a compromise proposal allowed the missile to escape, just barely, its most serious attack yet in the House...
POLITICS. This, everyone agrees, is the fundamental reason for the pullout. The Soviet leaders, beset by economic troubles at home, unable to prevent the deployment of U.S. nuclear missiles in Western Europe and still burning over Reagan's characterization of them as "the focus of evil in the modern world," are in an angry and frustrated mood. They will do nothing even passively that might conceivably boost Reagan's standing, but on the contrary will seize every opportunity to embarrass him in an election year...
...Beset by war and weariness, the ruling Sandinistas are struggling...
...months ago, Deng launched what may be his final attempt to put his own mark, and some irreversible spin, on the history of China. Frankly admitting that it was "currently beset with many serious problems," the Communist Party leadership announced a three-year plan to review the ideological credentials of its 40 million members. The drive is designed in effect to purge the party of around a million unregenerate leftists, the majority of them ill-educated Maoists who have been desperately clinging to power...