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will go to any length-and depth-for a good picture, a fact she proved during a foray into Pennsylvania coal country in search of women miners. Joining a 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift near Johnstown, Bergen rode 800 ft. into the earth for a work session with her subjects. Her enterprise was not universally approved. "When I returned the next day, the foreman met me at the entrance and said the men had threatened to strike if I went back down," said Candice. "The men feel that their decades in the mines have been obliterated by the media...
Buoyed by large and rousing crowds on his first extended campaign swing since he won his party's nomination, Gerald Ford opened the week with a three-day foray into the South. In Alabama and Mississippi, his audiences -mostly white and affluent-cheered his attacks on Carter's vow to cut the growth in defense spending and roared approval of the President's opposition to gun controls...
...high season for guerrilla warfare begins with the November rains. This year, however, the guerrillas' intentions were just one of many new uncertainties facing Rhodesia's 6.1 million blacks and 274,000 whites. Prime Minister Smith, following Henry Kissinger's dazzling diplomatic foray into southern Africa, had agreed to yield power to his country's black majority in two years time. His decision raised the possibility that Rhodesia ? as well as much of the rest of southern Africa ? might be poised on the brink of peace instead of a race war that was once thought inevitable...
Albert Finney goes through these changes in Alpha-Beta (originally a play, adapted with minimal cinematographic flourishes for the screen). Instead of the flippant, mostly harmless satire of a foray into the "Now Generation" that, say, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas turned into, this simple film, focusing entirely on Finney's Frank Elliot and his wife, Nora, played by Rachel Roberts, jolts us with an unrelentingly realistic, though extreme, view of the psychological crisis of a not old, but not young couple who choke on all the subtle lies needed to sustain the new 'honesty...
...local U.S. embassies played virtually no role in the proceedings, except to manage the awesome logistics involved in a Kissinger foray abroad. In South Africa, one senior U.S. official first learned of the Secretary's trip from a local journalist. The resident ambassadors were rarely present at the key meetings with white and black leaders. Kissinger is said to fear that area specialists may be too deeply involved in local problems to retain a global perspective-and besides, he prefers to deal with his handful of close associates. As one of them says...