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...James (Matt Dillon), a 17-year-old punk who figures he moves with the swagger of stardom, and his older brother the Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke), tired of being an outlaw legend in Rusty-James' eyes-are little more than the sum of their mannerisms. Their father (Dennis Hopper) is a philosophizing sot who comes and goes with the whim. Rusty-James' girlfriend (Diane Lane) is a mere receptacle for his careless abuse; his best friend (Vincent Spano) is a cowardly grind seduced by Rusty-James' danger. None of these dead souls ever enters the land...
Like many other issues that have sprung into the legislative hopper of Congress from grass-roots American concern, the final House resolution was a compromise. Originally, the document called only for the Reagan Administration to pursue an "immediate, mutual and verifiable" nuclear arms freeze with the Soviets at the ongoing arms-limitation talks in Geneva. The White House insisted, however, that an acceptable arms-reduction agreement would have to be reached before an arms freeze could take place in order to prevent any Soviet advantage in bargaining. Under the sponsorship of Republican Henry Hyde of Illinois and Democrat Elliott Levitas...
...intends to do more. A bill sponsored by Pepper and passed in 1978 eliminated any mandatory retirement age for most federal employees and raised it from 65 to 70 for workers in private industry. He has a new bill in the House hopper to remove any such age limits at all. "The only mandatory retirement," he says, "is when you can't do the work any more...
...Hinckley shot and wounded President Reagan, along with Presidential Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy and D.C. Police Officer Thomas Delahanty. At the trial last May, Mrs. Hinckley said she threw her son out as part of a plan devised by John's psychiatrist, John Hopper Jr., to force him to be less dependent on his parents. Hopper testified that he did not consider his young patient mentally ill and never thought there was much "cause for concern...
Last week Brady, McCarthy and Delahanty joined in a $14 million suit against Hopper. Filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, it contends that the psychiatrist misdiagnosed Hinckley as having only minor problems and rejected his parents' suggestions that he be institutionalized. They had a dozen sessions in his Evergreen, Colo., office, the final one a month before the shootings. The suit charges that the doctor failed to warn police of "the reasonable likelihood that Hinckley would attempt a political assassination," despite Hinckley's admission that his "mind was on the breaking point." Hinckley, judged innocent by reason...