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State of Siege, like Costa-Gavras' other work (Z, The Confession), is angry all right, and with cause, but it is also unnecessarily emphatic, too easy and simplistic, and stylistically jazzy past the point of stridency. His movies are like glossy international versions of Dragnet, with a rather different political bias. Like the dauntless Jack Webb, Costa-Gavras employs a sort of arhythmic, staccato editing and prominent, even aggressive music (by Mikis Theodorakis) to punch the movie along, giving it a kind of spurious suspense. His characters are mouthpieces, not people, repositories of conflicting political attitudes. In State...
...article on the Op-ed Page of The New York Times, David Landau '72 defends Dr. Kissinger's "tardiness" in ending the war. "Although Kissinger has a big brain," Landas writes, "he is semi-human like the rest of us." In a citywide ecology dragnet Cambridge police arrest six staff members of the Harvard University Gazette and book them for "willful, premeditated and repeated pollution of the area with noxious and pointless litter." Collapsing in the face of police interrogation, Harvard Publicity Director Deans Lord admits that Derek Bok, Henry Kissinger and Patrick Moynihan were her creation. "We needed some...
There had never been a case quite like it, and Israelis were understandably aghast. In a continuing police dragnet, 46 persons were arrested and interrogated; they faced charges of either spying for Syria's Deuxieme Bureau (G2) or knowing about the spy ring and not reporting it. The majority were Arabs, but four of those arrested were Jews. Most shocking of all, the leader of the ring and another prominent member were not only Jews but Sabras-native-born Israelis...
...District Court Judge Gerhard A. Gesell awarded the first civil damages from the litigation-a total of $9,000 in damages and legal fees to two Labor Department employees who were caught in the dragnet. The city government, which must pay the damages, argued that the mass arrests were justified by an emergency situation, but Judge Gesell declared: "The constitutional protections that are available to citizens of this country are protections which must be zealously safeguarded, and the appropriate time to safeguard them particularly is in times of stress and strain...
...Dragnet. Some experts have suggested that the Justice Department's Internal Security Division-a unit separate from the FBI-draw guidelines for the investigation of subversives, rather than leaving the matter open to FBI interpretation. Why was Senator Edmund Muskie's name mentioned in an FBI report on a 1970 Earth Day rally, for example? Agents were assigned to the rally to keep an eye on Rennie Davis, who was then awaiting trial in the Chicago conspiracy case, but including Muskie's name in the report created at least an impression of indiscriminate dragnet surveillance. Strict guidelines...