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Poonsters interviewed offered an interesting, if questionable, descrip- tion of their involvement with the case...
Paradoxically, when the film is vaguest it is often at its strongest. Impending nuclear war is announced in a series of bulletins on radio and television, casually broadcast and half-heard at first. The sound track carries snatches of references that accelerate to slightly longer descrip tions of airport blockades and MiG-25s "invading West German airspace" and that end, finally, with a shocked anchorwoman saying, "Three nuclear weapons in the low-kiloton range were airburst this morning over advancing Soviet troops." There is only calamity after that. ABC's determination to keep up appearances of political evenhandedness have...
...plainly dis satisfied with much that has been writ ten about Red China. He scorns "sta tistics" served up by China-watchers. He wants no part of journalistic "prej udice" or "travelogues." In this slim account, he professes to add his own new dimension - "a novelist's descrip tion of the moods and atmosphere" inside the world's most secretive closed society...