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...half-hour Captain Power program to be broadcast on Saturday or Sunday nights beginning next fall. A mixture of live action and computer animation, Captain Power -- much like preteen action cartoons -- takes place in a futuristic outer-space setting where a crew of good guys (and a token gal) engage in endless scrapes with the forces of evil...
...Yossi Gal, a spokesman at the Israeli Embassy, said that at a White House meeting, Ambassador Meir Rosenne "restated Israel is ready to cooperate" in the inquiry...
...Hanford site, and most of the local citizens favor the nuclear industry as the basis for their jobs. Even this traditional view is changing, however. It was recently learned that dangerous quantities of iodine gases had leaked from the Hanford reactors during the 1940s and that 500,000 gal. of nuclear toxins have leaked into the ground from storage tanks over the years. Those revelations, coupled with the plant's more recent problems, are giving pause to even the most diehard Hanford supporters...
Anger among European officials was fanned further at midweek when Ciba- Geigy, Switzerland's largest chemical company, admitted spilling about 105 gal. of the herbicide Atrazine into the Rhine the night before the Sandoz fire. The discharge of the chemicals, which is forbidden by law, was discovered only after officials tested the river for pollution from the Sandoz accident. While a Swiss water official asserted that the Ciba-Geigy accident did not kill the fish, the disclosure increased demands for stricter laws regulating chemical storage...
...films that were made separately by directors who were once husband and wife. Evelyn Purcell's Nobody's Fool and Jonathan Demme's Something Wild have more in common than the eleven-year marriage of their directors. Both are romantic comedies about a normal guy and a kooky gal made in a style we might call funky folkloric. The narratives are ever willing to stop in their circuitous tracks and wait appreciatively for an eccentric character to idle on by. Trouble is, it takes more than divorce papers and edgewise weirdies to inform a good picture these days...