Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DECISIONS of higher-ups in the squad. Mills bares the personal ambition and selfishness which seep into law enforcement and often bring those most responsible for the law to circumvent it. He portrays a captain and lieutenant who chance serious reprisals in order to gain a breakthrough which will lead to promotion. In the process, they use Lockley as a pawn to further their plan, and they risk the life of an audacious female undercover agent, Past Butler, whose voluntary role in the scheme is to bed down with a high-rolling black pimp who works Times Square. The irony...
...need boldness, more boldness and always boldness." So said West German Chancellor Willy Brandt in Bonn last week as he toasted his distinguished French guest. By invoking the words of French Revolutionary Leader Georges Jacques Danton, Brandt hoped to nudge Georges Pompidou toward a breakthrough in the stalemated process of creating a larger and more unified European Economic Community. The French President was hesitant. "I am tempted to remain faithful to my fellow countryman, even though he came to a bad end," he replied, alluding to the fact that Danton was guillotined by rival revolutionaries during the Reign of Terror...
...Nixon himself has taken an active role in the lobbying. The President, who last met with newsmen way back in March, called two White House press conferences in the past two weeks. There was no doubt about what was on his mind. Nixon defended the Moscow accords as a "breakthrough." He insisted that he would not have signed them if he were not convinced that they are "in the interests...
Dominique's story, in fact, avoids becoming a cliché only because her breakthrough was so extraordinarily easy. "I found her on the telephone," says Robert Bresson, who directed her in her first film, Une Femme Douce. "When I heard her voice, I guessed that she was beautiful." Like most women famed for their enigmatic charm, Dominique cannot understand what the fuss is all about. Now, far beyond her flaming youth, she does not lead such an unusual life. Though she and Marquand have no plans to marry, they are looking for a house in Provence, where they...
Tenuous as it may prove to be, however, the truce represented a breakthrough for Whitelaw (see box) and a handsome return on his determined policy of conciliation. Whitelaw released more than half of the Catholics who had been interned without trial by Faulkner's government. Last week he took another conciliatory step and ordered that 80 Catholics and 40 Protestants sentenced for political crimes such as carrying arms be treated as political prisoners. That meant that they will be allowed better food, more family visits and ordinary clothes. The ruling came just in time to save some...