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...Curiosity Kills, last month's USA entry, C. Thomas Howell and Rae Dawn Chong play a photographer and his neighbor who suspect a new tenant of being a killer; despite some bloody violence, it's routine Nancy Drew hokum. USA's Dead Reckoning contrived to place a rich doctor (Cliff Robertson), his wife and her former lover on a pleasure boat together in the middle of the ocean, then promptly sank in a sea of implausibility...
Last week a 32-ft. Navy submarine, the Sea Cliff, found the Macon's collapsed frame in sand 1,450 ft. beneath the surface off Point Sur, 100 miles south of San Francisco. A fisherman, Dave Canepa, had netted scraps of wreckage from the site in the late 1970s. They had hung for years in Jeanne B's restaurant in Moss Landing. Several years ago, the alert wife of oceanographer Christopher Grech saw the relics and told her husband. He found Canepa, who recalled where he had snagged the pieces. The Navy's sub crew located the Macon...
...same cause: the heritage of empire. The non-Russian Soviet republics were absorbed by expansionist rulers in centuries past and never assimilated. Quebec became a part of Canada when British troops led by Major General James Wolfe defeated France's Marquis de Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, a cliff overlooking the St. Lawrence river outside Quebec City, in 1759. Though nationalism is almost an anachronism in a world where economics is driving nation-states into larger units, the centuries of thwarted emotions are now catching up with multiethnic federations like Canada and the U.S.S.R. Gorbachev, like Mulroney, is trying...
Canada's long-running confederation soap opera headed for a cliff-hanger finale last week. In the hardscrabble Atlantic province of Newfoundland, 52 provincial legislators hurriedly canvassed their constituents on whether to accept a constitutional agreement hashed out by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the country's ten provincial premiers a week earlier. In the prairie province of Manitoba, Elijah Harper, a Cree Indian and member of the legislative assembly, repeatedly blocked debate on the same ratification issue. The clock was ticking: if either legislature fails to approve the agreement by June 23, a delicate compromise over Quebec's place...
...Join hands and jump off the cliff together. So goes Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson's scenario for a bipartisan federal deficit reduction. The tactic . proved its worth in California. Proposition 111 had the support of the gubernatorial candidates of both parties and more than 250 business, labor and social-service groups that spanned the political spectrum. Bipartisan support reduces a politician's vulnerability to attack by opponents as a tax-happy spender. In Washington Democrats insist they need that cover from Republicans -- but Republicans fear they would be exposed to primary challenges from even more conservative candidates back home...