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...full ACSR took substantially the same position Thursday; though its vote was formally on only the Phillips case, it will probably apply to Con Oil as well. The ACSR also voted to support a shareholder resolution to have General Electric disclose details of its South African operations, but it opposed a few other resolutions aimed at G.E., the most important of which asked the company to report to its shareholders on its involvement in the military's war with Southeast Asia...
...Church Project, a committee of Protestant denominations which organized the proxy campaign against Con Oil and Phillips, claims that the financial and moral support provided by such companies helps maintain South African rule in Namibia, formerly called Southwest Africa...
Those who refused to renounce the Communists were carted off to the French-built Con Son, 140 miles south of Saigon in the South China Sea, for political reeducation. Of the 8,945 prisoners there, 6,467 are considered Communists. Due to a steady diet of beatings-as well as sand and pebbles in the rice-dysentery, tuberculosis and chronic stomach disorders were common. Water was limited to three swallows a day, forcing prisoners to drink urine. Those who pleaded-for more food were splashed with lye or poked with long bamboo poles...
...impostors, hired to discredit them prior to President Thieu's trip to San Clemente. Some in the government seem genuinely to doubt that the men really exist. "How can these men be alive?" asked one knowledgeable and honest government security officer. "No one ever comes back from the Con Son tiger cages alive...
...Director Zieff does not make the fantasy of the script quite abstract enough, nor his odd, self-consciously cute characters quite believable enough. Whimsy and reality, neither fully realized, cancel each other out. Caan, a perennially baffled ex-con, basically plays straight man to Boyle as a bunko artist-bandleader and Lasser as the band leader's addled spouse, both of whom are amiably funny throughout. Keller man, a souped-up Bonnie Parker, pushes much too hard, perhaps in reaction to ZiefFs almost laboriously studied direction, which favors lingering takes and long pauses...