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This reasonably heartfelt political documentary concerns the Battle Mountain Indian colony, part of the Western Shoshone Tribe in Nevada, and its resistance to being abused and cheated by the U.S. Government. The Indians say that they have ownership rights to over 24 million acres of land in Nevada, according to a treaty signed in 1863. The U.S. says they do not, but has offered to make some sort of settlement for the land anyhow. If the Indians cool down and keep quiet, the Government will pay them a little over a dollar for each acre-exactly what the land...
Islam's heartfelt but unanswered plea dramatically highlighted the conflict over priorities that characterized the conference from its opening day. Building on the momentum generated by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's visionary plea for international cooperation (TIME, Nov. 18), the delegates chose to sidestep current problems and concentrate instead on trying to develop organizational mechanisms that would cope with future crises...
...much of this intense cultural nationalism is derived from Greek students' alienation from American society is not clear, although the marriage of such heartfelt cultural collectivity with a radical ideology and "blueprint" for society seems possible only among a people that carries with it always the consciousness that it is oppressed...
...Grodin to convert himself from a chronically depressed victim into a man of action. That development-as his voice-over narration, rather like a rehearsal for a Woody Allen monologue, makes clear-does nothing to alleviate his deep existential dread. "She is a very good person," he says with heartfelt gratitude as Bergen volunteers for a particularly dangerous bit of criminality. "This is a very frightened truck," he observes as their robbery vehicle draws up in front of 11 Harrow House to begin the caper. His comment, when Howard's mistress comes to their rescue after Howard has turned...
...YORK. Surveying the results of the election, one of the state's most powerful Democratic bosses was moved to heartfelt candor. Meade H. Esposito, leader of the Brooklyn bastion of the old guard, called for a revival of back room politics. Said he: "The back room gave you the best guys-Lehman, Roosevelt, Smith, Harriman...