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...hawk's-eye view makes the case unforgettable. Stewartt finds a break in the clouds, and we circle over logging operations in high, steep valleys. A huge Sikorsky helicopter is pulling logs out of a narrow canyon. What is going on is not just clear-cutting, which a widely ignored provision of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 permits on national forest land only when it is the optimum cutting method. This, says Stewartt, is really "a mining operation, a one-time extraction of resources." Valley walls too steep to walk on have been scraped to bare earth. Acreage...
Richard Nixon isn't in town, but a dozen Nixon loyalists, college kids too young to vote in 1972, march down Bourbon St. carrying "America Needs Dick Now" signs, and vendors here hawk "Nixon in '88" shirts, which sell briskly...
Under the British-Saudi agreement, Riyadh will obtain 48 Tornado fighter- bombers to add to the 72 it has already contracted for, as well as up to 60 Hawk jet trainers, 80 helicopters and six minesweepers. Britain will also build two military airfields and provide training for Saudi Arabia's army and air force...
Jackson headquarters are at the Marriot Marquis. In the lobby, members of the Rainbow Coalition offer T-shirts for $10 and hawk copies of Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech for three bucks...
Dignity is a luxury during the Cannes fortnight. It rubs shoulders with outrage and excess, as film folk hawk their wares in the world's largest annual secular convocation. At the Palais, moviegoers must dress formally for the evening screenings; at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go, a porno star who is also a member of the Italian Parliament performs a sex act with a stuffed animal. The cafes percolate with erudite analyses of Marcel Ophuls's 4 1/2-hr. documentary / on Klaus Barbie, while back at the Eden Roc, Producer Edward Pressman discusses his new movie about Claus von Bulow...