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Then his ex-wife marries a small-time Mafia hood who is persuaded by the Justice Department to inform on his colleagues. He is promised a new life and identity in return for his testimony. One night the crook, his bride and Hacklin's children (Heather Bicknell, Andrew Fenwick) are spirited away. The Government not only refuses to tell Hacklin what has become of his children, it blocks his efforts to find them. The conspiracy is expensive and sophisticated; Hacklin is poor and simple. But Caan refuses to heighten this classic confrontation between soulless bureaucracy and the individual...
...most disheartening thing is that they have no choice but to be afraid. In contemporary America it is virtually impossible to learn anything positive about gay people. Television and movies like "Windows" and "Cruising" inform us that gay people are pathetic, or savage, or both. To the Federal government and the majority of states, homosexual acts are an "abomination". To parents and friends homosexuality is an accusation, never a reality. It is the lowest of insults, a shadowy rumor which must not stain us at any cost. But proving heteroxexuality takes hard work. After all, you never know...
...blame does not rest entirely with the students, however. The executive committee which runs the Afro-Am Department rarely met with students, ignored their suggestions, and failed to inform students of the progress of the search, creating an atmosphere hospitable to rumors and panic. Better communication would help head off protests like this in the future...
...Please inform that senior Administration official who says he does not know what causes inflation or what to do about it [March 10] that the federal deficit is the basic cause, and the cure is balancing the budget...
...visit is to inform the American academic community of Black South African needs for equal educational opportunities," Mortimer said yesterday...