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...recent movies. The reason Roy is shaky is that a bunch of baddies have killed his wife while aiming at him. Discharged from a rest home, he gets the strong impression that his bosses no longer have any use for him, and indeed we see them running his dossier through the paper shredder and deciding to do something very similar to his person. To compound his difficulties, a rather schizzy young woman (Janet Margolin) has mysteriously taken up residence in his apartment (her story of a mixed-up sublease does not wash awfully well). He is also in receipt...
...just completed a tour as Eastern Europe bureau chief, reports that a Christian's chances of buying a Bible openly are currently good in Poland, erratic in East Germany, difficult in Czechoslovakia and Hungary (where the purchaser's name may go directly into a government dossier), extremely difficult in Rumania, virtually impossible in the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. Buying a Bible is an out-and-out crime in Albania. Besides Bibles, the smugglers provide essential religious literature otherwise unobtainable...
...Dossier 51. At the Orson Welles III, daily...
...danger of losing his perspective on the long-run effects of his policy. In an effort to remedy that, Jimmy Carter asked National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to outline the global problems and prospects for the coming year, and late in December Brzezinski provided him with a thick black dossier. Brzezinski declines to discuss the specifics of that report, of course, saying only that it is concerned with "trying to create a framework for wider global accommodation." This, along with European defense concerns, will presumably be one of the main topics when Carter meets late this week with his chief...
Michaelides is expected to be tried in Athens under Greek law. As a Greek national he cannot be extradited to the U.S. Meanwhile, the Virginia dossier on the case is being forwarded from Virginia to Greece. Last week in Athens, Michaelides asked: "What had I to gain by murdering the woman I loved? Inheritance? I refused all rights to it when she died." He did admit, though, that after her death, he accepted presents of $100,000 from each of her two brothers as a "show of sympathy and liking." He maintained that his former wife's death was clearly...