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...party, philosophy and ideology." Driving the point home, the White House released a pro-GATT letter signed by Presidents Ford, Carter and Bush.Passage of the treaty on the House floor is expected Tuesday. But obstacles remain in the Senate, where it is opposed by Democrats like South Carolina Sen. Fritz Hollings who fear huge job losses. One important Senate hurdle is a vote needed to waive rules requiring all measures to pay for themselves for ten years. "That's the key vote," says TIME Washington correspondent Adam Zagorin, "because you need 60 votes to waive the rules. The treaty itself...
Pentagon officials interpreted his conversion as a classic illustration of the maxim: "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em." Constant, they said, had turned to American authorities after the raid with an offer to help them damp down violence, and they had accepted. Fritz Joseph, a FRAPH member who has gone into hiding, has a less charitable interpretation. Referring to Constant and Michel Francois, the police chief who has fled into exile in the Dominican Republic, Joseph says, "They both cut deals for themselves and left everyone else who worked with them without protection...
...take the title but not the plot of a '50s exploitation epic from the vault of American International Pictures and, on a miserly budget of $1.3 million, spin a hip variation on it. So Allan Arkush (Rock 'n' Roll High School) picked Shake, Rattle and Rock; Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat) selected Cool and the Crazy; Joe Dante (Gremlins) chose Runaway Daughters; Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn) took Confessions of a Sorority Girl; William Friedkin (The Exorcist) got Jailbreakers; Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) chose Reform School Girl; Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary) took Dragstrip Girl; John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait...
...that wants to be a funny social commentary -- the press kit hopefully evokes the names of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges -- is shot in the impersonal expressionist manner that was literally foreign to these American masters, a style that was favored by glum and self-important German directors like Fritz Lang...