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...seagoing megalomaniac who captures nuclear subs belonging to both East and West and plans to destroy world: shades of Diamonds Are Forever. Lots of underwater stuff: Thunderball. Also skiing: On Her Majesty 's Secret Service. (Think about: Curt Jurgens, as megalomaniac, pronounces O07's name Bund. This hint he's crypto-Nazi? Farfetched, but can anything be too farfetched in a film like this...
...Teng made his first surprising reappearance, at a banquet in Peking. He soon became Vice Premier and the closest collaborator and heir presumptive of Premier Chou Enlai. When Chou's health had begun to fail, Teng headed a delegation to the United Nations in 1974-a hint that he might take over the Premier's role as China's main negotiator with foreign leaders...
...opening scene, the film never gives us any of the details behind the panorama. We watch the men float down the river without understanding any more than we knew before the film began. They are driven by greed and ambition, but we are given no hint of where that greed springs from. The characters barely interact; we see them only as figures moving in a dream. We never learn why Aguirre has brought his 15-year-old daughter on his fatal voyage, or why Dona Inez insisted on accompanying her husband. We never learn why the other...
...largely a mercenary operation-many workers who said they opposed the union questioned its negotiating efectiveness. Spurred by the University's information campaign, several ad-hoc workers' groups organized against the union, arguing that District 65's lack of success in organizing and bargaining betrayed more than a hint of organizational incompetence. And in the end, it apparently was this economic argument, questioning District 65's ability to provide tangible benefits rather than ideological niceties, that carried...
...French party boss, Georges Marchais, striving to burnish his image as a moderate Eurocommunist, announced that he "did not need to see Brezhnev every time he comes to Paris." Since the Kremlin is currently intensifying its criticism of Western parties (see following story), Brezhnev was quick to take the hint. The two did not meet...