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JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. The inner life of a bourgeois matron (Giulietta Masina) becomes a psychic three-ring circus as Director Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8½) puts milady's past, present and future through the hoops in flamboyant style...
Propaganda Circus. The U.S. had begun the daily bombing of North Viet Nam last February, prompted by enemy attacks on American compounds, in the hope of forcing Hanoi to realize the folly of continuing the war and to sit down to talk. That failed; so all through the summer of last year the President weighed the obvious alternative: a cessation of bombing to encourage Hanoi to discuss peace. Moscow, Peking, Hanoi, and even Western European capitals kept insisting that the sine qua non of opening communications with Hanoi was a stop to the bombing. Last May the U.S. tried...
...outdoors under a warm sun.* The advice was unanimous: an announced pause in the bombing, then the quiet peace offensive. L.B.J. quickly vetoed the no-bombing public declaration. "For me to stand up and announce a bombing pause," he asserted, "would be to admit that this was a propaganda circus." With that, the President fell silent, and his advisers left the ranch convinced he was going to reject the whole idea...
Most dictators find a certain cruel pleasure in the judicious balance of bread and circuses necessary to keep their people in hand. In Cuba, where nearly everything is rationed, Castro has only half the fun. But when circus time arrives, Fidel makes the most of it, as he did last week on a double occasion for revelry-the seventh anniversary of his rise to power and the convening of the first "anti-imperialist" conference of Latin American, African and Asian nations...
...many a tinhorn ruler had done before him, Fidel apparently hopes to form a third world force of small, revolutionary countries, and Havana Radio hinted that it should be represented by a new tri-continental organization with headquarters in Havana. To Cubans, that sounded like circus time forever...