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Percy faces a rough challenge from five-term Congressman Paul Simon, a southern Illinois liberal. Simon is known for his trademark bow ties and hornrimmed glasses and for his effectiveness on Capitol Hill: he had more of his bills passed this year than any other member of the House. Percy, although chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee since 1980, has never pushed through a major bill of his own. Polls show the candidates in a virtual dead heat. Simon has won over many black and Jewish voters who in the past had supported Percy in his more liberal incarnation...
...careful, dogged course between tract and treacle. In this near-miss movie Shepard is once again the icon of incorruptibility who refuses to claim the center of a film. Toward the end of Country Shepard's character disappears, with little explanation, in what may be a gentlemanly bow to Jessica Lange, a flinty, landsomely wasted matriarch. Mother ones, meet Ma Joad. -By Richard Corliss...
Edna Spaulding, played with wonderful strength and control by Sally Field, is a sheriff's wife who suddenly finds herself a widow when her husbands is shot by a drunken black youth. Edna, long accustomed to playing the deferential wife, must bow assume the responsibilities of keeping her family together in a decidedly masculine world of bank mortgages and cotton farming...
...Allston resident escaped serious injury when his bicycle collided with a car at the intersection of Linden and Bow streets yesterday afternoon...
...Organization, the U.S. employed a tactic last week that one UNESCO official called "psychological warfare." A confidential study by the Congress's General Accounting Office that harshly criticizes UNESCO was leaked to the press. The report charges the agency's Senegalese director, General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, with large-scale inefficiency and mismanagement. Said M'Bow: "I was elected by all the 161 member states to head the organization . .. and not one of them can force me to hand in my resignation...