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...relaxed ways at the Cannes Film Festival. Hoffman, a contender for the festival's Best Actor award for his performance in Lenny, had the look of a winner as he held court with his wife Anne. Despite his swimming schedule, the actor met with Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Constantin Costa-Gavras and Francois Truffaut. "It's been nice not just shaking hands with them but getting together around a table and talking cinema," he said later. Hoffman, however, declined to reveal any plans to work with one of the three directors. When a reporter asked what he expected...
...Premier Vasco dos Santos Goncalves would not be substantially changed, no matter what the electoral outcome. In it, the Socialists, Popular Democrats and Communists each have two portfolios, and the Democratic Movement one. Real power will remain with the 28-member Revolutionary Council, composed of President Francisco da Costa Gomes, Premier Goncalves and other officers whose exact political makeup is not known, but who lean heavily to the left...
...credit for that unpredictability belongs to Segura, a Clausewitz of subtle shots and stratagems. As a small player who uses a two-handed forehand, Segura is in many ways the perfect teacher for Connors. Before all of Connors' big matches, he and Pancho, currently teaching pro at La Costa, a resort north of San Diego, review the opponent's style and prepare a game plan. "I tell him how to beat these guys," says Segura...
...State Department directed U.S. Ambassador Frank Carlucci to raise these concerns with President Francisco da Costa Gomes and inform him that the leftward tilt was inimical to U.S. and NATO interests. Five other NATO countries officially voiced similar complaints. The Administration was consulting its European allies about means of imposing a kind of quarantine within the alliance. As Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger put it, "It will have to take some symbolic form ? making them outcasts without casting them out." Explained another official: "We would deny access to classified documents that circulate in the alliance and disinvite them...
...wake of fears that the Communists would seize control of the government, possibly jeopardizing American bases and imperiling NATO's southern flank, Lisbon has sought to reassure Washington of its desire for continued good relations and its commitment to the Atlantic Alliance. Last week President Francisco da Costa Gomes also promised that the outcome of the April 25 elections for a constituent assembly would be respected. But it was almost impossible to see how the elections could any longer be considered an accurate measure of Portuguese opinion, with some parties outlawed and others fearing to stage rallies...