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...mistake to build a universal field theory" around the outcome of this week's meeting, whatever it turns out to be. But an upbeat response would at least indicate that the Soviets have decided to abandon their present policy of icy silence. Said Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, a leading advocate of a somewhat more flexible U.S. negotiating stance: "I would argue at this stage that the Soviet Union recognizes that it must have a dialogue with...
...State Department rebuttal is a categorical denial: "No agency of the U.S. Government even knew that the plane was off course and in difficulty until after it had been shot down. Only the Soviets knew where it was before it was shot down." Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt contends that precisely because U.S. surveillance was directed toward the incoming Soviet missile, it could easily have missed the civilian airliner's deviant course...
...running repartee beforehand, Hingsen said Thompson's braggadocio made him think of Muhammad AH; Thompson called his rival "Hollywood Hingsen" because of his Burt Reynolds mustache and his perpetual golden tan. Hingsen predicted he would win the gold. Thompson replied, "There are only two ways he is going to bring a gold medal home; he'll have to steal mine or win another event." Thompson has added an eleventh event to the decathlon: clowning around. He came to one press conference sporting a floppy hat, then doffed it, revealing his head swathed in bandages. "All this talk...
...irritated at what some officials regard as Papandreou's "anti-American, proSoviet, pro-terrorist" policies. Last week it was revealed that on June 26 the Greek Ambassador to the U.S., George Papoulias, was summoned to the State Department, where he was informed by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt that the U.S. was considering denying a Greek request for surplus military aircraft: 16 F-5 fighters, at present in Norway's possession. According to Administration sources, most of the F-5's may instead go to Greece's traditional enemy, Turkey. Said a senior official...
...work in Star 80 as it is possible to be), he has a dream team, actors capable of suggesting unwritten levels of intimacy in the film's central relationship while maintaining a strong, easy and persuasively naturalistic stride. With fine impartiality, Patrick has provided good roles for Burt Young and Tony Musante among the Mafiosi, for Jack Kehoe and Geraldine Page as a crooked cop and his adoring mom, and for Kenneth McMillan, playing an aging safecracker with a sad personal life, who provides a note of weary realism. Under Stuart Rosenberg's intelligently permissive direction, they provide...