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Bertolucci and his collaborators on the screenplay preserve the paradoxes, but only at the necessary cost of neglecting motives and character, and building a buffer of mystery between individuals. In a little Italian village, the son of a local hero of the opposition to Mussolini returns seeking the murderer of his father. Like Lincoln, the hero was shot in a local theater--during a performance of Rigoletto. Like Macbeth, he had been warned by gypsies of his impending death. Like Caesar, he was found to have on his dead body an unopened letter with the same prophecy--previously handed...
...balked, however, on a key issue: the precise status of the six-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone. Hanoi, which has consistently refused to view Viet Nam as two nations, wanted free military movement through this "temporary" buffer zone. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, on the other hand, claims that the DMZ is a permanent political border for his sovereign nation. It was largely at Thieu's insistence that the U.S. had reopened discussion on this subject, which had purposely been left vague in the nine-point agreement announced by Kissinger in October. Now, on orders from...
...Buffer Zone. Dayan's concept in northern Sinai is to build up the area with Israeli settlements, not only to provide needed Israeli housing but also to make Egyptian attack impossible. He contends that the original settlement can be stretched to create a buffer zone, with satellite towns as far as the Sinai hills 50 miles away. His most vigorous opposition springs from the left-wing Mapam Party. It accepts border settlements as a temporary protective measure but believes that in the long run, the country will be more secure if a formal peace is negotiated and Arabs...
...Geneva accords of 1962. The Pathet Lao demand a two-thirds share in the government, and they have a large but unacknowledged North Vietnamese military presence to back their claim. What is fundamentally at issue is whether Laos will emerge as a reasonably independent buffer state that might help to bring some stability to Indochina, or as an out-and-out fiefdom of Hanoi...
...unwritten understanding more explicit. A knotty related problem is whether Thieu will be required to release all political prisoners now held in South Viet Nam. It was revealed that another key question had been resolved in the earlier secret talks: the DMZ would be preserved as a supervised buffer zone between the two Viet Nams...