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Television is attempting a Deer Hunter of its own: Friendly Fire, an ABC made-for-TV movie based on C.D.B. Bryan's 1976 nonfiction book (April 22, 8 p.m.). Carol Burnett and Ned Beatty play an Iowa farm couple who turn against the war when their son is killed by an errant U.S. artillery round in Viet Nam. As their anger grows more obsessive, they gradually alienate their lifelong friends and even their own family. In Bryan's book, the process is deeply moving, but the TV version is cluttered with cliches and civics lessons. The best...
...agreement calls for the industrial nations to cut tariffs on thousands of imports by an average of 33% over the next eight years. Strauss also managed to win lower barriers on a large number of U.S. farm exports, including tur key parts, table grapes and canned fruit...
...spokesman said the early morning firefight occurred at Kibbutz Tirat Zvi, a collective farm 20 miles south of the Sea of Galilee and north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank...
Between sips of coffee at a roadside diner in the rich farm land near Three Mile Island, area residents kept citing the reassurances of company officials that there was no need for concern. As Vice President Herbein had been saying: "This accident is not out of the ordinary for this kind of reactor. It was not unexpected.' President Creitz meant to be equally low key, but in retrospect his words were unwittingly chilling. Said he: "The same occurrence happened two or three times in 1974 on Unit No. 1, but the tanks didn't spill." It was about this time...
DIED. Emmett Kelly, 80, creator of the sad-eyed hobo clown Weary Willie, whose mournful pantomime made him Ringling Brothers' biggest attraction for 14 years; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Raised on a Missouri farm, Kelly left home at 19 seeking his fortune as a cartoonist in Kansas City. A series of jobs painting sideshow banners and Kewpie dolls drew him to the Big Top, and in 1922 he joined a small troupe as an aerialist-clown. He achieved lasting fame when he broke with the white-faced clown tradition to create the ragtag Willie, who delighted...