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...intelligence community has been lax in detecting moles within its midst. Yet many saw the arrests as the fruits of an intensive crackdown. "I think it was a good week," FBI Director William Webster said in an interview with TIME. "It shows that those who want to betray have a substantial risk on their hands of being detected and prosecuted and given severe sentences." In his weekly radio address on Saturday, President Reagan declared, "We will not hesitate to root out and prosecute the spies of any nation...
...Haiti and the Philippines with its support for contra rebels fighting the left-wing regime in Nicaragua. A House vote on Reagan's $ 100 million aid package for the contras is scheduled for this week (see ESSAY). "Important choices now rest with the Congress," said Reagan last week, "to betray those struggling against tyranny . . . or to join in a bipartisan national endeavor to strengthen both freedom and peace...
Lowe’s boyish giggle offsets the subdued mohawk and slight trace of black eyeliner that betray his rock-star alter ego. When singing in his new band “Tommy and the Tigers,” Lowe’s costume choices range from a pink lounge suit to black leather pants, and his crisp gyrations, coaxing smile, and lusty vocals draw in audiences. Lowe has been playing to the crowd in one form or another for the majority of his conscious life, and he’s not about to stop...
...SHARON: I didn't betray them. Look, we had a dream. We haven't managed to accomplish all the dream. I know it's very painful, very hard...
Disgusting, snarls his revolutionist cellmate Valentin (Raul Julia), who is being tortured to betray his beliefs and his underground comrades. But perhaps he protests too much. For he encourages Luis to keep spinning out his scenario (which is visualized in wickedly parodistic flashbacks). Ultimately Valentin confesses that his revolutionary ardor is no less a romantic fancy than Luis' old movies are. Both are substitutes for the more immediate and commonplace forms of love that elude these fantasists of impossible perfection. And both surrender to a final irony: real life may be the cruelest of all illusions, a fantasy-film star...