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...weird joke. A 63-year-old former Communist, he now lives in millionaire-style luxury on a heavily guarded, 174-acre compound in Virginia, wages fringe presidential bids and is head of an eccentric and paranoid political movement. At airports around the country, his impassioned, clean-cut followers hawk propaganda calling for the quarantine of AIDS victims and accusing numerous notables, including Henry Kissinger and Walter Mondale, of being Soviet agents. But when two LaRouchites posing as mainstream candidates won the Illinois Democratic state primary nominations for Lieutenant Governor and secretary of state in March, the bhagwan of American politics...
...amount it receives in defense contracts: some $7.7 billion. In 1985 alone, $2.3 billion worth of defense-related business went to Raytheon, based in the Boston suburb of Lexington, where the shots heard round the world were fired. The ammunition they are firing today is more sophisticated: Patriot and Hawk air defense missiles for the Army, Sparrow air-to-air missiles for the Navy...
...Faced with political reality and understanding that Congress was increasingly wary about selling to Saudi Arabia any weapons that could be used against Israel, the Administration last fall chopped down an arms shopping list drawn up by the Saudis and the Pentagon. Out went the purchase of twelve Black Hawk helicopters, "enhancement kits" to upgrade 60 F-15 fighter planes, and about a dozen new F-15s. The Administration did accede, however, to the Saudis' $354 million offer to buy 800 shoulder-fired antiaircraft Stinger missiles, 1,650 air-to- air Sidewinders and 100 antiship Harpoons. The scaled-down deal...
...bureaucratic battle over missile throw-weights would not seem to be the stuff of which best sellers are made. But when the author is Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, the Administration's outspoken hawk, some publishers are willing to take a chance. Perle wants to write a novel about his arms-control struggles with the more dovish former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, now the U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Perle has circulated a five-page outline for his first work of fiction, and bidding for the book has reportedly passed...
...interim, however, Rudolph seems to have mislaid his sense of humor, and Trouble in Mind is a walk on the dour side. The locale is "RainCity" (which is not going to please the Chamber of Commerce in Seattle, where the film was shot). A cashiered cop named Hawk (Kris Kristofferson) broods and moralizes as he advances on Wanda (Genevieve Bujold), who runs a shabby cafe and represents experience, and on Georgia (Lori Singer), a waif who represents innocence. Her common-law husband Coop (Keith Carradine) is a hick tough with delusions of gaining grandeur in the urban underworld...