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...place it beyond the ordinary festival." This year the motif is "Expo-Trans-Port," and the fair features an impressive mock-up of the new four-terminal airport presently under construction between Dallas and Fort Worth. There is also a new emphasis on Texas ethnic groups (German Day, Czech Day) and a growing spirit of Pan-Americanism. Cattlemen from Argentina, Nicaragua and Costa Rica flock to the fair to buy prime breeding cattle. They are treated like visiting royalty, right down to a barbecue for 1,500 on Lamar Hunt's Circle T Ranch. While the wealthy Latin Americans...
...Amsterdam, Dutch police seized a planeload of Czech-made arms flown from Prague and allegedly intended for the outlawed Irish Republican Army to use in its campaign to oust British troops from Ulster. They also arrested the Belgian pilot of the charter aircraft and an American who was charged with importing arms without a license...
...years back, Czech Director Ivan Passer made Intimate Lighting, which was acclaimed for its warmth and comic invention. In Born to Win, Passer seems a good deal less sure of himself-perhaps because he is working in America for the first time. He handles his actors well-Segal, Fletcher and Black are all exceptionally effective-but he shows no understanding of the social forces that eventually engulf the characters. The film's final scene is, unhappily, less resolution than stalemate. Worse, it has ceased even to matter which alternative J. will choose...
Hoover gave those orders in irritation over a minor piece of information that was relayed by an FBI agent in Denver to a CIA employee in 1969. The case involved the disappearance of a Czech-born University of Colorado professor named Thomas Riha. The FBI had refused to give the president of the university any assurance that the disappearance did not involve foul play, but an FBI agent, acting on his own, told a CIA employee that it did not. The CIA man passed on the message -no foul play-to the president, who then let it slip...
...East German Secret Police official, credited as being the man responsible for the security measures involved in the building of the Wall in 1961, and who was quoted as having said of the intervention of the Russians in Prague in 1968, "each and every one of them (Czech insurgents) should be hung up on the lampposts of Prague...