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Actress Jill Clayburgh, 39, seems to have entered a legal phase. Two years ago, she was a Supreme Court Justice in First Monday in October. Now in Hanna K., a new political film by Director Costa-Gavrass (Z, Missing), she plays an American attorney turned Israeli citizen who takes on the controversial case of an Arab charged with persistently and illegally crossing the border into Israel. "It is an allegorical tale," says Clayburgh. Though she had little time to play tourist while filming in Israel, being virtually unknown there gave her a welcome escape from the pressures of fame. Says...
Stone tried but failed to meet with Salvadoran rebels in Costa Rica last month. This time the successful go-between was Colombian President Belisario Betancur Cuartas. The setting was the austerely modern living room of the presidential palace in Bogotá. Betancur first greeted Stone, then introduced him to Zamora and withdrew from the room. What the two men said during the next 90 minutes is not known, but both sides subsequently hinted that another meeting, involving several other Salvadoran leftist leaders, may take place later this month...
...significance of that buildup was, and still is, in dispute. Some CIA experts thought the actions were aimed primarily at strengthening Nicaragua internally. But the Defense Department was concerned that it might be the prelude to a Nicaraguan strike at Honduras or Costa Rica, another neighboring country from which anti-Sandinista exiles have been conducting guerrilla operations against Nicaragua. The same fear had been expressed by Honduran officials, who were concerned that by letting the main group of contras set up bases and train in their country with U.S. arms, they might be exposing themselves to Nicaraguan invasion. The Sandinistas...
Clark sided with the worriers, and Pentagon planners, led by Iklé, successfully argued for a show of U.S. force to give the Nicaraguans pause and reassure the Hondurans and Costa Ricans that the U.S. would not let them be overrun. To that end, the Pentagon revved up planning that had begun as early as last February for naval and military maneuvers. The Defense Department last spring had won approval in principle from all agencies involved in Central American policy that maneuvers should be conducted, but had not specified how big or how long they would...
...black-and-white tomcat named Jober, who owes one of his nine lives to a $19 accident policy. When Jober was hit by a car and suffered a fractured skull, the policy covered $200 of its $354 hospital bill. Jober's owners, Lou and Fran Bruno of Costa Mesa, Calif., admit they would otherwise have had second thoughts about having the expensive treatment. Said Bruno: "We were so happy to be able to tell the vet to go ahead and do what he could...