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Even so, Carter's presidential rivals were cautious about criticizing him. Kennedy did not utter a word of reproach. "Whatever our other differences," he said, "we are one nation in our commitment to the hostages, our concern for their families, and our sorrow for the brave men who gave their lives trying to rescue their fellow citizens." Ronald Reagan was equally restrained. Said he: "It is time for us as a nation and a people to stand united. It is a moment when words should be few and confined essentially to our prayers...
...only did they hold brave convictions which challenged the authorities but they translated their convictions into action," Duehay said in yesterday's address. "The lesson to be learned is that to believe in an ideal, it is necessary to act on its behalf...
...easy to think of James Caan as just another pretty face: a pleasant, inoffensive actor who is just right for light entertainments like Chapter Two. It is brave enough for him to play the leading role that of an inarticulate factory workerin Hide in Plain Sight, since it is the kind of small, sober film no agent would regard as a good career move." But this is also Caan's debut as a director. To choose this true story of a man trying to find and then recover his children, who have been abducted...
Gradually, with the help of Marie St. Jacques, a Canadian economist whom he abducts and then saves from a brutal rape, Bourne-Cain learns that he is a tender, brave man as well. But Carlos is determined to destroy his reputed rival. So are Cain's former masters in the Washington intelligence establishment, who had originally set him up to trap Carlos and are now persuaded that he has turned. Bourne's deadliest enemy, however, is his former self. The only credentials he can recover from his past are those of a sadistic executioner in Viet...
Still Klaaste says this control has not dampened the spirit of would-be journalists. "The whole country has a violent psychosis," he says. "You can go to jail for anything, and the youth nowadays are very brave and very angry...