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...three Presidents had bulletproof vests. Some other dignitaries did not. (On the day of the funeral, Percy climbed into a limousine with Nixon, Ford and Kissinger and noted that the three were sitting like penguins. "My, but you look erect," said the unsuspecting Percy. "Where's your flak vest?" he was asked. It suddenly dawned on him that between him and any bullet were only two layers of Brooks Bros.' best tailoring. "Let me sit behind you," Percy said wryly...
...Flak-jacketed police then escorted the pair to Banisadr's old apartment in Cachan, a middle-class suburb of Paris, where he lived during most of his 16 years of exile from the Shah's regime. "I will stay here until the people [of Iran] find the path to democracy," Banisadr told a throng of reporters outside his home. At week's end he moved temporarily to a friend's home in northern Paris, apparently for security reasons...
...Congress's Office of Technology Assessment chimed in with a careful report that found serious fault with each of the proposed deployment plans. There has been comparatively little debate on the need for the missile, the most powerful single weapon ever designed by the Pentagon. But all this flak has dimmed prospects for the desert drag strips and given the Administration a severe political migraine. If Reagan does not settle on a deployment plan by next month, he may jeopardize MX funding for the fall and beyond...
...back: "We couldn't shoot back. But they were allowed to blow us up all over the place. They train you to kill. Then they pull your teeth. They didn't let us do the job, and then on top of that, we come back and catch all the flak from people who thought we were beasts...
Written with more flak than one might expect in a film of this kind, directed with impersonal stylishness by a onetime TV-commercial director with a fondness for tight closeups of inanimate objects, The Fan has an emptily sophisticated air that, strangely, works for it. Everyone is so busy being chic and bright that no-one notices the developing menace in the title character's letters to the star as his obsessive fantasies of love turn into malevolent schemes of destructiveness. And somehow, when his words become deeds, the intrusion of maniac disorderliness on the slickly complacent world...