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...protect their guest, the Israelis organized the most intensive security system in their history. Communications gear and bulletproof limousines were flown into the country by U.S. Air Force transports. An army of 19,000 policemen, soldiers and government agents were on guard. Troops lined the 32-mile route from the airport to Jerusalem. A cordon sanitaire encircled every area that the President visited. His movements were shadowed by three helicopters-a command center, a troop carrier and a flying medical team...
...point, Veronika turns towards the audience and says, "In a bad film, that is what would be called the message." The implication is that only bad films have messages. Eustache made his film bulletproof against interpretation; it succeeds in finally smothering the impulse to find a pattern, while giving us just enough on the surface--of profanity, wit, and nudity--to keep our interest. There is an air of parody about parts of the film--Alexandre, for example, dresses precisely like Eustache himself. In the middle of her tearful confessional Veronika rises from the floor and slyly mocks...
...activities that is published in a number of London papers. Such publicity will doubtless now be limited, and extra protection has already been assigned to the royal family. Nevertheless, there is still understandable resistance to change the traditions of centuries. The royal family has "no intention of living in bulletproof cages," said a palace spokesman. After all, pointed out Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, "it is not possible for public figures to make public appearances clandestinely, so to speak...
...third year in succession, King Hussein of Jordan, 38, elected last week to vacation in Palm Beach. Though unofficial, his visit did not go unnoticed. President Nixon provided him with two bulletproof limos, and Hussein was accompanied by his Prime Minister, Zaid al-Rifai, and Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major Zaid bin Shakar. The diminutive monarch put up at the home of Jordan's honorary consul in Palm Beach, Kleenex Heir James Kimberly, and his wife Jacquie. Then he set about enjoying himself. A day's shooting on a nearby game preserve bagged 40 quail...
...Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott last week found that many of the city's inhabitants remain afraid of terrorist raids and further shellings. Public schools were still closed to avoid the tragedy of an artillery shell's hitting a crowded classroom. Last week workmen were installing bulletproof glass in the foyer of the U.S. embassy (even as American Charge d'Affaires Thomas Enders assured the capital's populace that "the enemy is failing"). The Australian and British embassies have sandbagged their front entrances, and half of the city's 5,000 French residents have fled...