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...declares: "If six Mexicans beat up a policeman, it's murder, but if six policemen beat up a drunk Mexican and throw him into the river, it's a misdemeanor." Foreman is representing the family of Joe Campos Torres 23, whom police picked up in a barroom brawl, then beat senseless and tossed into the Buffalo Bayou. Police Chief B.G ("Pappy") Bond arrested one of the officers in the Torres murder but stoutly denies wrongdoing by his men in numerous other killings. Insists Dick DeGuerin, president of the local criminal-lawyers' association: "The mentality in this force...
...down the checklist of a classic Western's ingredients, and few items will be missing in the Lucas recipe: bounty hunters with no morals; sleazy smugglers who will handle any contraband--including political rebels--and who don't pronounce the final letter of an -ing verbal; a barroom brawl with laser guns instead of fisticuffs; even a posse chase with spacecraft in the place of swift stallions...
...President leaves the meeting shortly before 7 p.m. He discusses it in the admiring way a street fighter would talk about a good brawl. "It was very tough," he says. "They really took a lot of shots at Schlesinger. But he defended himself well. He's a very smart man. There was a lot of very strong give-and-take. I was proud of everyone...
...also helps if one is a linguist, a lawyer, a historian, a geographer and the bearer of a free pass on the world's airlines. It can lead to unpleasant surprises, such as finding that an ancestor was deported from Britain or was killed in a brawl (like two of Jimmy Carter's forebears) or hanged. On the other hand, the search can turn up sturdy pioneers and genuine heroes. One resourceful family organization, with the unlikely name of the Southern Bean Association, has recorded the dustups and derring-do of the Scotch-American Bean clan since...
...Billion. Hill, the Italian-born European star who is making his U.S. film debut, is sometimes wistfully appealing as he tries to live a western-movie vision of America. His best moment occurs when he acts out a favorite fantasy by clobbering Slim Pickens in a Texas barroom brawl. But when he turns up in the old fight-to-the-death on the edge of a cliff (this time in the Grand Canyon), with Perrine lashed prettily to a nearby rock, he and the film makers have to be kidding - only they don't seem to know...